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• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 03, Mar 2022

Why in  News?The Hermetic Wiper malware that targeted Ukraine” published in The Hindu on 2nd March 2022.Ukraine has found that hundreds of its computers have been attacked by a data-wiper malware named Hermetic Wiper.Moreover, Ukraine’s

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 03, Mar 2022

Reference News:-India and France shall conclude a deal soon for the joint development of a 125KN engine for the indigenous fifth generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) under development.The collaboration is between the Defence Research and Development Organi

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 02, Mar 2022

Reference news:-TheRamanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians was awarded to Professor Neena Gupta, a mathematician of the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, in a virtual ceremony on 22nd February 2022.She received the award for the year 2021 for her outs

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 01, Mar 2022

Reference News:-Amid the ongoing war, the Russian space agency has threatened that Russia could respond to the US sanctions by letting the ISS fall from space.How is the Space Station protected from such acts?It is governed by the International Space Station

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 28, Feb 2022

Why in News?China has recently tested a nuclear capable hypersonic missile.About HSTDVHSTDV is an unmanned scramjet vehicle with a capability to travel at six times the speed of sound.The scramjets are a variant of a category of jet engines called the air-b

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 28, Feb 2022

Indian Army has picked Russia’s Igla-S missile system as choice for its multibillion dollar contract for man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS). Igla-S bid around $1.47 billion from Russia’s Rosoboronexport had emerged lowest bidder for Indian Army’s Very Short R

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 24, Feb 2022

Reference News:-Astronomical observations suggest that a significant part of the universe is made up of dark matter which interacts with the rest of the universe only through the gravitational pull.Many large lab experiments have tried to detect elementary particl

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 24, Feb 2022

What is Spirulina?Spirulina is an organism that grows in both fresh and salt water.It is a type of cyanobacteria, which is a family of single-celled microbes that are often referred to as blue-green algae.Just like plants, cyanobacteria can produce energy from s

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 24, Feb 2022

Reference News:-Eurybates is one of a handful of asteroids that Lucy will visit over the next 12 years.Recently, astronomers at Las Vegas were observing a star which appeared to briefly blink out because the asteroid Eurybates had passed in front of it.As Eurybates

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 21, Feb 2022

Why in News? Tamil Nadu has conveyed to the Supreme Court that it does not want the Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) to be set up in a sensitive ecological zone in the Western Ghats.Indian Neutrino Observatory ProjectAbout:The setting up of an INO was app