1. India's Only
Golden Tiger 'KAZI 106F' in Kaziranga National Park:
'KAZI 106F', described as the country's
only Golden Tiger, has emerged as the social media sensation right after its
picture tweeted by an IFS officer went viral
KAZI 106F, the tigress, resides in world
heritage Kaziranga National Park of Assam. It is also known as 'Tabby tiger' or
'Strawberry tiger'. The skin of tigers is orange-yellow with black stripes and
whitish abdominal region.
The yellowish background is controlled by a
set of 'agouti genes' and their alleles and the black colour stripes are controlled
by 'taddy genes' and their alleles. Suppression of any of these genes may lead
to colour variation in tiger.
Kaziranga
National Park: It is located in the State of Assam and covers
42,966 ha. It is the single largest undisturbed and representative area in the
Brahmaputra Valley floodplain. It was declared as a National Park in 1974.It
was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985.It is the home of the world's
most one-horned rhinos. Much of the focus of conservation efforts in Kaziranga
are focused on the 'big four' species----- Rhino, Elephant, Royal Bengal tiger
and Asiatic water buffalo. The 2018 census had yielded 2,413 Rhinos and
approximately 1,100 elephants. The National Highway 37 passes through the park
area.The park also has more than 250 seasonal water bodies, besides the Diphlu
River running through it.
2. Pema Khandu
releases book “The Tangams: An Ethnolinguistic Study Of The Critically
Endangered Group of Arunachal Pradesh”:
The book titled 'The Tangams: An
Ethnolinguistic Study Of The Critically Endangered Group of Arunachal Pradesh'
was released by Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu.
The Tangams are
a little-known community within the larger Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh and
reside in the hamlet of Kugging in Upper Siang district's Paindem circle.
Tangams are now
concentrated in only one village (Kugging), with 253 reported speakers.
As per the
UNESCO World Atlas of Endangered Languages (2009), Tangam- an oral language
that belongs to the Tani group, under the greater Tibeto-Burman language
family- is marked 'critically endangered'.
Arunachal
Pradesh: Capital: Itanagar
Districts: 25
Governor: B. D.
Mishra
Chief Minister:
Pema Khandu
High Court:
Guwahati High Court
3. UAE's
historic 'Hope' Mars Mission:
The United Arab Emirates(UAE) Mars Mission
or 'Hope' is scheduled for launch on 16th July,2020.
It is one of three missions launching to
Mars this month.
The USA and China, both have surface rovers
in the late stages of preparation.
It is the first interplanetary mission for
the Arab World.
The 'Hope Orbiter' will be lifted on an
H-IIA rocket from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a machinery maker in Japan. It
will be launched from Tanegashima Island in Japan.
The UAE does not have its own rocket industry.
Once launched, it is expected to arrive in
orbit around Mars in February 2021( the year of 50th anniversary of
UAE's founding).
It costs about USD 200 million and will
carry three instruments: an infrared spectrometer, an ultraviolet spectrometer
and a camera.
4. Low-cost
Supercapacitor from Industrial waste
cotton:
Recently, Scientists at the
International Advanced Research Center for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials
(ARIC) have developed a simple, low-cost, environment-friendly, and sustainable
supercapacitor device.
ARCI is an autonomous organization of
the Department of Science And Technology, Government of India.
Supercapacitor is a next generation
energy storage device. They are also known as ultracapacitors.
It has significant advantages such as
high power density, long durability, and ultrafast charging characteristics as
compared to conventional capacitors and Lithium-Ion batteries(LIB).
Main components of supercapacitors include electrode,
electrolyte, separator, and the current collector.
Supercapacitor
Device: The
supercapacitor is developed from industrial waste cotton based electrode &
natural seawater electrolyte.
Industrial waste cotton converted into
highly porous carbon fibers by activation process and then utilized to make
high-performance supercapacitor electrodes.
Natural seawater was explored as an environment-friendly,
cost-effective and alternative aqueous electrolyte.
This supercapacitor showed great potential
for practical implementation. It exhibited maximum capacitance, good durability
and high efficiency.
5. Dolphin
number dips in Chambal river: According to the latest census report
prepared by the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department, the number of dolphins in Chambal
river has been reduced by 13% in 4 years.
There are just 68 dolphins left in the 435
kilometer long Chambal river sanctuary which passes through three states i.e.
MadhyaPradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, Gangetic Dolphins are the
sanctuary's main attraction.
The decreasing trend is continuing from
2016 when there were 78 dolphins.
The maximum carrying capacity of dolphins
in Chambal is 125. The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum
population size of a biological species that can be sustained in that specific
environment , given the food, habitat, water and other resources available.
Gangetic
Dolphin: Scientific Name: Platanista gangetica
It is India's
National aquatic animal and is popularly known as 'Susu'. It is found in part
of the Ganges-Meghna-Brahmaputra and Karnaphuli-Sangu river systems in India,
Nepal and Bangladesh.
It is among the
four freshwater dolphins in the world. The other three are: 1) The 'Baiji' now
likely extinct from the Yangtze River in China
2) The 'Bhulan'
of the Indus in Pakistan, and
3) The 'Boto' of
the Amazon River in Latin America.
Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin
Sanctuary (VGDS) in
Bihar's
Bhagalpur district is India's only sanctuary for dolphins.
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