It is a portal launched by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
It will enable individuals and private companies to submit application for security clearances and view its status online.
The Home ministry is the nodal authority for granting security clearances in certain sensitive sectors.
Industrial licensing
Recently, the home ministry has got the power to issue industrial licences for defence manufacturing from Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP).
The defence manufacturing includes electronic aerospace and defence equipment manufacturing.
The following are the 5 industries which require compulsory licensing
Arms and ammunition, explosives and allied items of defence equipment,
Defence aircraft and warships,
Narcotics and psychotropic substances,
Hazardous chemicals, distillation and brewing of alcoholic drinks,
Cigarettes/cigars and manufactured tobacco substitutes.
Space Technology Incubation Centre
ISRO has recently launched a space technology incubation centre in Tripura capital Agartala.
It is the first of six such centres planned nationally to build capacity in new locations.
The Centre was launched at the first edition of ‘Spacetronics’ organised by the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA).
The centre will incubate start-ups which would build applications, offer services and products which can be used internally and expolit global opportunities.
India and Germany Pact
India and Germany have signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to focus on the field of dual vocational education and training and skill development.
Under the MoA, students who complete specific training courses in India will get a certificate that is recognised in India and in Germany too.
These students can apply for jobs in India and also in Germany.
Akash Missile
Akash is an indigenously developed medium-range, surface-to-air missile defence system.
DRDO developed Akash as part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme initiated in 1984.
It can target aircraft up to 30 km away, at altitudes up to 18,000 m.
It consists of Rohini radar that detects incoming aircraft with a range of 120 km.
It can intercept fighter jets, cruise missiles as well as ballistic missiles.
It soon will get an upgraded variant and Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) gave its procedural approval to the variant.
Recently, it was test fired with an indigenous radio frequency seeker.
This is the first surface-to-air missile with indigenous seeker that has been test fired.
With this success, India has achieved the capability of making any type of surface-to-air missile.
JUNO
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has beamed back an image of a long, brown oval known as a “brown barge”.
Brown barge is an elusive atmospheric feature in Jupiter’s South Equatorial Belt.
The objective of Juno mission is to measure Jupiter's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere.
It completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot.
Jupiter‘s Great Spot is a 16,000-km wide storm monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years.
Recently, the spacecraft reached "Perijove", the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter‘s centre.
