Daily Current Affairs – 15-02-2025
Tamil Nadu
KaWaCHaM launched
in Kerala
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Kerala government has launched India’s first fully integrated disaster warning system named ’ KaWaCHaM ’ (Kerala Warnings, a Crisis and Hazard Management System).
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It aims to enhance disaster preparedness and response capabilities while also issuing alerts for extreme weather events.
The system is developed by
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Kerala State Disaster Management Authority(KSDMA )
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National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
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World Bank
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It is developed under the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project.
India and Korea
sign MoU
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India has signed an ‘ Exchange of Notes’ with South Korea for a technical cooperation project titled ‘ Strengthening Vocational Education and Training in Mechatronics in India ’.
India joins
Eurodrone programme
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India has joined the Medium Altitude Long Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (MALE RPAS) programme, also known as the ’ Eurodrone programme ’, as an Observer State.
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India is the second Asia-Pacific country after Japan to join the programme.
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The Eurodrone project, launched in 2016 , is a joint initiative of Germany, France, Italy, and Spain .
Singapore President
visits India
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Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam paid his first visit to India , marking 60 years of diplomatic relations between the countries.
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Both Presidents jointly unveiled the 60th Anniversary Commemorative logo at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi .
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The logo features the ’ lotus ’ (India’s national flower) and the ’ orchid ’ (Singapore’s national flower), with the number ‘ 60 ’ signifying the 60 years of diplomatic ties.
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Bilateral trade between the countries has increased from $6.7 billion in FY05
to $35.6 billion in FY24, making Singapore India’s 6th largest trade partner .
ISRO sign space exploration
agreement
® ISRO and the European Space Agency have signed an agreement for collaboration on astronaut training, mission implementation , and research experiments.
Spacewalk record
® Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe
and Song Lingdong set a new world record for the longest single spacewalk.
® The spacewalk lasted 9 hours .
® This breaks the previous record of 8 hours and 56 minutes , set by NASA astronauts James Voss and Susan Helms in 2001.
India to develop launch vehicle
® The Ministry of Science & Technology is supporting Chennai -based
Agnikul Cosmos .
® The support is for the development and commercialisation of ‘Agnibaan’ , a two-stage launch vehicle.
® The vehicle can deliver payloads of up to 300 kg to 700 km altitude .
® The initiative is supported by the Technology Development Board (TDB).
New exoplanet
discovered
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A team of scientists at NASA has discovered a Neptune -like exoplanet named “TOI-3261 b” using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
(TESS).
® It orbits a K -type star.
® The exoplanet has a mass
of 30.3 Earths.
® It completes one orbit in just 0.9 days (21 hours).
® Its distance from the star is 0.01714 Astronomical Units (AU).