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3350 Tonne Gold Mine Discovered in UP’s Sonbhadra District, 5 Times That of India’s Reserves:Geological Survey of India
3350 Tonne Gold Mine Discovered in UP’s Sonbhadra District, 5 Times That of India’s Reserves: GSI
- The Geological Survey of India and the Uttar Pradesh Directorate of Geology and Mining have discovered two goldmines with around 3,350 tonne gold ore in the Naxalite-affected Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh.
- This gold deposits is around five times the current gold reserves of India, which is around 626 tonne, and estimated at Rs 12 lakh crore.
- The Gold deposits have been found at two places namely Sonpahadi and Hardi field.
- The estimated gold deposits at Sonpahadi is 2,943.26 tonnes, while 646.15 kilograms in Hardi field.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Lays Foundation Stone of Thal Sena Bhawan at Delhi Cantt
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Lays Foundation Stone of Thal Sena Bhawan at Delhi Cantt
- The Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh laid the foundation stone of Thal Sena Bhavan at Delhi Cantonment, opposite the Manekshaw Centre, on 21 February 2020.
- The Thal Sena Bhavan is the new headquarter of the Indian Army and will bring all Army HQ offices under one roof, including newly created Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) office.
- Currently, Indian Army works from eight different locations in the Capital, such as South Block, Sena Bhawan, Hutments Area, RK Puram, Shankar Vihar and other places.
- Spread over an area of 39 acres, the project is likely to be constructed in five years.
- Thal Sena Bhavan will be constructed to house the office complex and parking. It will have a total of 6,014 offices for around 1,684 officers, both military and civilian, over an area of approximately 7.5 lakh square metre.
- The building is conceptualised as a multistorey green building adopting Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) norms.
- Important directorates including the Chief of the Indian Army working in close coordination with the Centre would continue to have their office in South Block.
- Similar changes will be made with the headquarters of Indian Navy and Air Force in phased manner.
- The initiative is part of the Modi government’s Central Vista redevelopment project, which plans to convert North and South block into musuems.
CSIR Top Scientific Research Institute in Nature Rankings Index 2020
CSIR Top Scientific Research Institute in Nature Rankings Index 2020
- The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has ranked first in the Nature Ranking Index-2020.
- The ranking is based on the Nature Index, a database complied by science journal Nature Research.
- The institutes are ranked based on total research output which the institutions have carried out from 1 December 2018 to 30 November 2019.
- The total research output indicates the counts (which mean total citations in numbers) and shares (which mean the sharing percentage per article).
- The top subjects associated with the research work include: Earth and Environmental Sciences, Physical Science, Chemistry, and Life Sciences.
- Top 5 institute in the index
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore,
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR-Mumbai)
- Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI)
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-Bombay)
Third Edition of Chitra Bharati Film Festival organised in Ahmedabad
Third Edition of Chitra Bharati Film Festival organised in Ahmedabad
- The third edition of the Chitra Bharati Film Festival (CBFF) will be inaugurated at the Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 21 February 2020 by Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Bollywood filmmaker Subhash Ghai.
- The three day festival will conclude on 23 February 2020.
- Around 140 films falling under four categories, namely short film, documentary, animation and campus film, will be screened at the festival.
- The aim of this film festival is to establish a ‘Bharatiya’ narrative in Indian cinema.
- The first edition of the festival was held in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, in 2016, and the second at Delhi’s Siri Fort Auditorium in 2018.
Pakistan Successfully Conducts Testing of Nuclear-Capable Air-launched Cruise Missile Ra’ad-II
Pakistan Successfully Conducts Testing of Nuclear-Capable Air-launched Cruise Missile Ra’ad-II
- The Pakistan Armed Forces conducted a successful flight test of the air-launched nuclear-capable cruise missile Ra’ad-II on recently to boost the military’s “deterrence capability” on land and at sea.
- The strike range of the cruise missile is 600 km.
- The Ra’ad-II weapon system is equipped with state-of-the-art guidance and navigation systems to ensure engagement of targets with high precision.
