📝 NEERI to study industrial impact on Taj Mahal[1][2][3]
🚀 The Supreme Court has tasked the NEERI to study the impact of the glass industries on the Taj Mahal.
💡NEERI: National Environmental Engineering Research Institute ⇒ Established in 1958 in Nagpur as CPHERI ⇒ renamed NEERI later ⇒ A constituent laboratory of CSIR and falls under the Ministry of Science and Technology ⇒ 5 zonal centres of CSIR-NEERI: Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai.
🤔 What could be the possible impacts of glass industries on a monument like the Taj Mahal?
📝 Quantum Gravity Gradiometer (QGG)[4]
🚀 NASA wants to put QGG on a satellite in space ⇒ To study Earth’s gravity, understand where water, ice, and rocks are, and even help track climate change and improve national security.
🚀 QGG: A tool that uses ultra-cold atoms and lasers to measure gravity changes.
👉🏽 The atoms are cooled until they act like waves.
👉🏽 Lasers detect tiny changes in how these atoms move, revealing how gravity changes across different areas.
💡Gravity is slightly stronger in places with more mass, like near big mountains, and weaker in areas with less mass, like over oil or gas deposits ⇒ These differences can be detected using special tools like a gravity gradiometer.
📝 Amer/Amber Fort[5]
🚀 Located in Amer (Jaipur) ⇒ Above Maota lake ⇒ UNESCO World Heritage Site ⇒ Built in 1592 by Raja Man Singh I.
👉🏽 Rajput architecture with some influence of Mughal architecture ⇒ Constructed of red sandstone and marble ⇒ Consists of the Diwan-e-Aam, the Diwan-e-Khas, the Sheesh Mahal or Jai Mandir, and the Sukh Niwas.
👉🏽 Recently, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance visited the fort.
📝 Miscellaneous[6][7][8][9]
🚀 Long-billed (also known as Indian vulture) and white-rumped vultures are critically endangered.
👉🏽 The Jatayu Conservation Breeding Centre is located in Pinjore (Haryana).
🚀 Mission Mausam: Announced in September 2024 with an allocation of ₹2,000 crore over two years ⇒ Goals: To exponentially enhance India’s weather and climate observations and forecasting ⇒ Aims to develop better prediction models using AI.
🚀 T. Rabi Sankar: Re-appointed as Deputy Governor, RBI.
🚀 Port of Odesa: Largest Ukrainian seaport in the Black Sea basin.