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The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line of longitude on the Earth’s surface located at about 180 degrees east (or west) of the Greenwich Meridian. The International Date Line separates two consecutive calendar days. Immediately to the left of the International Date Line (the date) is always one day ahead of the date … Read more what is International Date Line? 4 marks 2010
CASSINI-HUYGENS is a NASA mission in which an unmanned spacecraft was send to Saturn.  it was a 4th space mission to Saturn but first to enter its Orbit orbital enceladus -Is a Saturn’s Moon where subsurface ocean and other geological activities favour the possibility of life on the satellite G4 or Group of four … Read more 27 September Daily Current Affairs : from The Hindu and Indian Express
National war Memorial and National war Museum at Princess Park near India Gate New Delhi. in the memory of all Indian soldiers who have made the supreme sacrifice for the country post independence. India Gate was built to Commentate the sacrifice of 13,300 soldiers who died in World War 1 and third Anglo Afghan war … Read more Daily current affair 8 October 2015
Rajiv Mehrishi (Â senior IAS officer ,Rajasthan cadre) Â Â Â Â On 31 august 2015Â was appointed as Union Home Secretary . Â Â Â Â Senior IAS officer Rajiv Mehrishi replaced L.C. Goyal (an IAS officer of 1979 batch of Kerala) Â . Â Â Â Â Mehrishi will occupy the post for two years with … Read more
Simon Commission (1927) Indian Statutory Commission chaired by Simon to go into the question of further constitutional reform All its seven members were Englishmen. Clement Attlee was one of the members. Lord Birkinhead was the secretary of state at that time At its Madras session in 1927 INC decided to boycott the commission “at every … Read more Simon Commission (1927),Civil Disobedience Movement,August Offerand CR Formula
It is a planned implementation of Satellite Based Navigation System (SBNS) developed by Airports Authority of India (AAI) and ISRO. GAGAN is expected to provide a civil aeronautical navigation signal consistent with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Standards and Recommended Practices as established by the Global Navigation Satellite System Panel. GAGAN was launched in August … Read more GPS Aided Geo Augmentation Navigation (GAGAN)
NASA finds evidence of liquid water on Mars In hellas impact basin. But the composition and source of water is it still unknown. Super moon and tidal flooding Super moon is a perigian spring tide that occur when the moon is either New or full and closest to the earth (perigee) causing increased tidal ranges … Read more 29 September -daily current affairs -The Hindu and Indian Express