Daily Current Affairs  – 14 June 2021

Facts in News 5 MHz Spectrum For Railways Recently, the Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for allotment of 5 MHz Spectrum in 700 MHz frequency band to Indian Railways and Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS). With this spectrum, Indian Railways has envisaged to provide Long Term Evolution (LTE) based Mobile Train Radio Communication on […]

In News Recently, the European Space Agency (ESA) has selected EnVision as its next orbiter that will visit Venus .  Earlier, NASA selected two missions to the planet Venus. The missions called DAVINCI+ and VERITAS have been selected based on their potential for scientific value and the feasibility of their development plans. About the Mission  […]

In Context  PASIPHAE Project is set to take place at the Skinakas Observatory, Crete, and the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, South Africa About PASIPHAE Project  Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarisation High-Accuracy Experiment (PASIPHAE) is an international collaborative sky surveying project to study the polarisation in the light coming from millions of stars. The name […]

In News El Salvador would be the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. Legal Tender It is defined as: coins or banknotes that must be accepted if offered in payment of a debt. A legal tender is guaranteed by the central government and all parties are legally bound to accept […]

In News Recently, the seven nations of the Group of Seven (G7) have held the 47th G7 Summit at Cornwall in south-west England. It was hosted by the United Kingdom (UK), which in January 2021, invited India to attend the Summit, along with Australia and South Korea as guest countries. Group of Seven It is […]

In News China’s dominance in the rare Earth Metals, key to the future of manufacturing, is a cause for concern for the West.   Rare Earth Elements (REEs) Rare earth metals are a group of 17 elements – lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium, yttrium.  They […]