Facts in News

                                 Facts in News

DSIR-PRISM Scheme

• The Union Science And Technology Minister has inaugurated a awareness event for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research – Promoting Innovations in Individuals, Startups and MSMEs (DSIR-PRISM) at IIT Delhi.
• PRISM is an initiative of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) that aimed at transforming an individual innovator into a successful technopreneur by promoting, supporting, and funding implementable and commercially viable innovations created for the society.
• Under PRISM, an innovator of the Indian nationality is provided technical, financial and strategic assistance.
• It is implemented across the various sectors from energy to healthcare to waste management etc.

Undersea Internet Cables

• Facebook and Google are planning two undersea internet cables named “Echo and Bifrost” to connect the US to Singapore and Indonesia.
  • Echo will run from Eureka, California to Singapore, with a stop-over in Guam, and thereto in Indonesia.
  • Google is only investing in Echo, Facebook is investing in both cables.
• Need: The current COVID-19 pandemic across the globe has increased the need for reliable Internet access.
  • And, this will provide vital new connections between the Asia-Pacific region and North America and increase the overall transpacific capacity by 70 per cent.

Military Farms

• The farms were set up with the sole requirement of supplying hygienic cow milk to troops in garrisons across British India.
•  The first military farm was raised on February 1, 1889, at Allahabad.
• Post-independence, the farms flourished with 30,000 heads of cattle in 130 farms all over India.
  • They were even established in Leh and Kargil in the late 1990s.
• The farms were a necessity as cantonments were located far away from urban areas.
• The military farms had been a big contributor to the promotion of dairy farming, which has helped the army provide milk in inaccessible areas of the country.
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AIM-PRIME Initiative

• Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog launched AIM-PRIME (Program for Researchers on Innovations, Market-Readiness & Entrepreneurship), an initiative to promote and support science-based deep-tech startups & ventures across India.
• The first cohort of the program is open to technology developers (early-stage deep tech start-ups, and scientists/ engineers/ clinicians) with strong science-based deep tech business ideas.
•  The program is also open to CEOs and Senior incubation managers of AIM Funded Atal Incubation Centers that are supporting deep tech entrepreneurs.
• Candidates selected for the program will get access to in-depth learning via a comprehensive lecture series, live team projects, exercises, and project-specific mentoring.
  • They will also have access to a deep tech startup playbook, curated video library, and plenty of peer-to-peer learning opportunities.
• The AIM-PRIME program is aimed at promoting science-based, deep technology ideas to market through training and guidance over a period of 12 months.

Bandhavgarh National Park

• It is the most popular national park in India is located in the Vindhya Hills of the Umaria district in Madhya Pradesh.
• It was declared a national park in 1968.
• The name Bandhavgarh has been derived from the most prominent hillock of the area of Umaria.
• The area of Bandhavgarh is being flourished with a large biodiversity, the place which is also famed to grasp the highest density of tiger population in India.
• Similarly, the park also beholds the largest breeding population of leopards and various species of deer.
• Over the years, the park has shown a great number of increases in the count of the tiger species and this is the reason why tiger tours are so famed to attract a large number of tourists in its vicinity.

GigaMesh

• An innovative wireless backhaul solution, based on patented millimeter wave wireless technology for Mesh Architecture.
• It is an innovative wireless product that gives fibre-like bandwidth at fraction of cost of fibre to help telecom operators deliver reliable low-cost internet services to suburban and rural areas.
• Benefits: Making 5G infrastructure ready and reduces network congestion, reducing operational costs and enabling telecom operators to deploy quality.
• Recently, a women-led startup Astrome has developed ‘Giga Mesh’.