Global IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities 2018
- It is a three-day event organised in Delhi by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in association with Rehabilitation International Korea.
- Youth with disabilities from 18 countries have participated in the event.
- India has been participating in the event since 2013.
- It is to leverage IT skills among youth with disabilities and to spread awareness about the application of ICT in enhancing the quality of life of persons with disabilities.
- It is a capacity building project that helps youth with disabilities to overcome their limitations.
Global Cooling Innovation Summit
- It is going to be inaugurated by Ministry of Science and Technology in New Delhi.
- It is a first-of-its-kind solution focussed event to explore ways to address the climate threat that comes from the growing demand from room air conditioners.
- Global cooling prize - Mission Innovation challenge will be launched in this summit.
- It aims to spur development of a residential cooling solution that has at least five times less climate impact than today's standard.
- The objective of the competition is to develop a cooling technology that
- Requires radically less energy to operate,
- Utilizes refrigerants with no ozone depletion potential and with low global warming potential, and
- Cost-effective at scale.
- It is organised by Union Ministry of S&T along with Rocky Mountain Institute, Alliance for An Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE), Conservation X Labs and CEPT University.
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
- Union Cabinet has recently approved the filling of Padur strategic petroleum reserve by overseas national oil companies.
- Strategic petroleum reserves are essentially huge stockpiles of crude oil to keep the wheels of the country running in crunch situations.
- This is because the government has to stay prepared with emergency stores of crude oil to tide over severe supply shocks of this critical fuel.
- India’s strategic crude oil storages are currently located at Visakhapatnam in A.P, Mangaluru, Padur in Karnataka.
- The government has given in principle approval to reserve at Chandikhol in Odisha.
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Ralph
- It is a space instrument launched by NASA to explore outer solar system.
- It was first launched aboard the New Horizons spacecraft in 2006.
- It revealed images of Jupiter and its moons and Pluto.
- In 2021, Ralph is set to journey with the Lucy mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.
- It will study this diverse group of bodies and will detect trojan asteroid’s chemical foot prints.
- It allows scientists to interpret data provided by the Sun’s reflected light that are the fingerprints of different elements and compounds.
Lucy Mission
- Lucy is NASA’s robotic mission to explore asteroids.
- IT will explore the environment of Jupite's Trojan asteroids
- Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojans and it will be launched in 2021.
- Trojans are bodies that are present in Lagrange points.
Source: The Hindu, PIB
