Daily Current Affairs  – 27 February 2021

                                 Facts in News Pasteurella multocida Recently, 7 elephants in Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha have died of haemorrhagic septicaemia caused by bacteria Pasteurella multocida. Pasteurella multocida is a Gram-negative, nonmotile, penicillin-sensitive coccobacillus of the family Pasteurellaceae. Gram-negative are the bacteria […]

In News Recently, the first-ever epigraphical reference to the date of death of Vijayanagar king Krishnadeva Raya has been discovered at Honnenahalli in Tumkur district, Karnataka. Epigraphy is the study of the written matter recorded on hard or durable material. The term is derived from the classical Greek epigraphein (to write upon, incise) and epigraph? […]

In News: Recently, the Uttar Pradesh Assembly passed the ‘Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Bill, 2021’, commonly known as the ‘love jihad’ law. The bill will now be sent to the UP legislative council for its approval before it becomes an Act after a formal nod by the governor. Background The UP Cabinet had cleared […]

In News- Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs shortlisted  25 cities for the ‘Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge’. About The first stage of the Challenge involved an open call for applications from city agencies. The selected cities were Agartala, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Dharamshala, Erode, Hubballi-Dharwad, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Kakinada, Kochi, Kohima, Kota, Nagpur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Rohtak, […]

In News-Recently, Scientists have estimated Sun’s rotation over the Century from data extracted from old films and photographs that have been digitized. About Discoverer/ Researcher: Following institutes studied solar rotation by tracing sunspots from century-old digitized films and photographs.  Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and […]

      In News Recently, the National Board for Wildlife and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change have included the caracal in the list of critically endangered species. About Caracal They are slender, medium-sized wild cats. The iconic ears give the animal its name caracal,  which comes from the Turkish word ‘karakulak’, […]

In News Recently, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has unearthed a Buddhist monastery, buried under a mound in a village situated in a hilly area of Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand. Older Related Discoveries In December last year, ASI found a Buddhist shrine with three rooms near agricultural land on the eastern side of Juljul Pahar. The central shrine had Tara’s […]