civil mentor

civil mentor

  • Joined: 31 July 2014
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Current Affairs – 7 August 2024

1. Organ Transplant Overview: All cases of organ transplants will be allocated a unique National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO)-ID for both the donor and the recipient, according to a recent directive by the Union Health Ministry. Norms Why…

Current Affairs – 6 August 2024

1.Ceramics Ceramics can typically withstand very hot or acidic environments, many forms of chemical erosion, and are hard and difficult to compress. But they are also brittle — i.e. can shatter — and don’t handle shear, or sliding, stress well.…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 5 August 2024

1.Genetic screening News Athletes worldwide are increasingly turning to genetic screening to enhance their performance.  Genetic screening is a tool used to identify individuals at higher risk for developing certain disorders or carrying specific genes for these disorders. It involves testing genetic material—chromosomes,…

Current Affairs – 4 AUGUST 2025

1. LA NINA ● La Nina is a climate phenomenon characterised by a cooling of the sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial PacificOcean. ● It is one phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in theEarth’s climate…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 3 August 2024

1. Nano-MIND technology Context: In a ground-breaking experiment, researchers at the Center for Nanomedicine at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and Yonsei University in South Korea have demonstrated the ability to control specific brain regions in mice using magnetic fields. How it works?  In their…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 2 August 2024

1.Polio virus ● In the mid-20th century, researchers widely believed the polio virus could only be grown in cultures of nerve cells. ● This misconception was propagated by their inability to infect rhesus macaques by the oral route, and only…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 1 AUGUST 2024

1.Civil War in Myanmar. Why in News? Recently, due to the ongoing Civil War in Myanmar, 1,500 nationals of Myanmar took refuge in Mizoram’s Champhai district following an intense gunfight between the Myanmar Army, and pro-democracy militias in the country’s western Chin…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 31 July 2024

1.CRISPR Fncas9 ● Indian scientists build breakthrough gene-editor, are aiming for patent ● A CRISPR system built to use the FnCas9 enzyme was found to editgenomes more efficiently and with less unintended damage than existingtechnologies, researchers at CSIR-IGIB and the…

CURRENT AFFAIRS – 29 July 2024

1.Lithium in Mandya and Yadgiri districts (Karnataka) NEWS ATOMIC MINERAL directorate expedition and research  found lithium in Mandya and Yadgiri districts, Karnataka. Preliminary surveys have identified 1,600 tonnes of in Mandya. India has several states with significant lithium reserves, including Karnataka, Rajasthan, Jharkhand,…