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History: 02nd MARCH

  • In 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in Italy.
  • In 1995, the search engine Yahoo was incorporated.
  • It was on 2nd March 1949 that the Nightingale of India Sarojini Naidu died. An Indian political activist and poet Sarojini Naidu was born on 13th February 1879 .

 

1) Very Short-Range Air Defence System : Flight Test

  • The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted two flight tests of the Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) missile.
  • Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) is a fourth-generation Man Portable Air Defence System (MANPAD) specially designed to counter low-altitude aerial threats over short distances.
  • These are short-range, lightweight, and portable surface-to-air missiles that can be fired by individuals or small groups.
  • It has been designed and developed indigenously by DRDO’s Research Centre Imarat (RCI), Hyderabad, in collaboration with other DRDO laboratories and Indian industry partners.
  • It has a range of up to 6-km.

2) Juice Jacking:

  • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a cautionary message to mobile phone users about juice jacking.
  • Juice jacking was first coined in 2011 by investigative journalist Brian Krebs.
  • It is a form of cyberattack where a public USB charging port is tampered with and infected using hardware and software changes to steal data or install malware on devices connected to it.
  • The attack is used by hackers to steal users’ passwords, credit card information, addresses, and other sensitive data stored on the targeted device.
  • This type of attack has been a growing concern, with incidents reported in various public spaces such as airports, hotels, and shopping centres.
  • RBI emphasised the importance of protecting personal and financial data while using mobile devices.

 

3) Doomsday Glacier:

  • Unveiling new details about Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier”, scientists have revealed that the Thwaites Glacier has been losing ice since the 1940s.
  • Doomsday Glacier also known as the “Doomsday Glacier,” is located in the remote Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica.
  • It’s a wide and fast-flowing glacier, roughly the size of Florida or Great Britain, and it has been a significant focus of scientific study due to its sensitivity to climate change.
  • Satellite measurements have shown that the glacier is losing an enormous amount of ice each year, nearly 50 billion tons annually, contributing to rising global sea levels. The glacier already contributes 4% of global sea level rise.
  • If the entire Thwaites Glacier were to melt, it could raise the world’s oceans by about 65 centimeters (over 2 feet).

 

4) Vikramaditya Vedic Clock : Inaugurated By Prime Minister Narendra Modi

  • The Prime Minister recently inaugurated the Vikramaditya Vedic Clock, which is mounted on an 85-foot tower within Jantar Mantar in Ujjain.
  • Vikramaditya Vedic Clock is the world’s first ‘Vedic Clock’, designed to display time according to the ancient Indian traditional Panchang (time calculation system).
  • It has been positioned on an 85-foot tower within Jantar Mantar in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
  • It also provides information on planetary positions, Muhurat, astrological calculations, and predictions.
  • It also indicates Indian Standard Time (IST) and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
  • The clock will calculate time from one sunrise to another.
  • The period between the two sunrises will be divided into 30 parts, whose one hour consists of 48 minutes, according to ISD.

 

5) New Spaceport At Kulasekarapattinam:

  • The Prime Minister recently laid the foundation stone for a new spaceport at Kulasekarapattinam in southern Tamil Nadu.
  • It is a new spaceport coming up at Kulasekarapattinam, a coastal hamlet near the temple town of Tiruchendur in Thoothukudi district in southern Tamil Nadu.
  • It will be second after the space agency’s existing Satish Dhawan Space Centre, founded in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota in 1971, with two launch pads.
  • It will focus on the launch of Small Satellite Launch Vehicles (SSLVs) on a commercial basis.
  • It will house 35 facilities, including a launch pad, rocket integration facilities, ground range and checkout facilities, and a mobile launch structure (MLS) with checkout computers.

6) Article 25 Of Indian Constitution:

  • The Kerala High Court recently observed that the fundamental right under Article 25 of the Constitution to enter a temple for worship does not give the right to any member of the Hindu community to perform the role of Archakas (priests).
  • Article 25 says that all persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right to freely profess, practice, and propagate religion.

The implications of these are:

  • Freedom of conscience: Inner freedom of an individual to mould his relation with God or Creatures in whatever way he desires.
  • Right to profess: Declaration of one’s religious beliefs and faith openly and freely.
  • Right to practice: Performance of religious worship, rituals, ceremonies, and exhibition of beliefs and ideas.
  • Right to propagate: Transmission and dissemination of one’s religious beliefs to others or exposition of the tenets of one’s religion.

 

7) US Chamber’s International IP Index 2024:

  • India’s position unchanged at 42 on International IP Index 2024 According to the 12th edition of the International Intellectual Property (IP) Index (2024) by the United States (US) Chamber of Commerce, India has retained the 42nd rank with an overall score of 38.64%.
  • The United States of America (USA) has topped the list with an overall score of 95.48% followed by the United Kingdom (UK) in the 2nd place with 94.12% and France in the 3rd with 93.12%.

 

8) President Appoints New Chairman & Members of Lokpal; Justice AM Khanwilkar as Chairman

  • Droupadi Murmu, President of India, has appointed the new Chairman and Members of Lokpal, the anti-corruption authority in India.
  • Former Supreme Court judge Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar was appointed as the chairperson of Lokpal.

 

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