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Day of the Year
Internaut Day
- Internaut Day is like the web’s own little party, celebrated on August 23. But hey, not everyone agrees on this date.
- Some say it all started when Tim Berners-Lee, a clever chap from CERN, first shared his webby idea with the world on August 6, 1991.
- He was like, “Hey, let’s make sharing science stuff easier,” but ended up giving us cat videos and memes. Classic mix-up, right?
- So, Berners-Lee pops this idea on a newsgroup (think old-school Reddit) and says, “Collaborators welcome!”
- He was pitching a digital campfire for physicists to swap tales, but it blew up bigger than expected.
Latest Updates
Tripura dam didn’t cause Bangladesh floods: MEA
- The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday denied that floods in eastern districts of Bangladesh were caused due to the opening of the Dumbur dam in Tripura.
- The clarification comes after protesters in Bangladesh blamed India for floods in eastern districts, triggering security threats for the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.
- Later in the day, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma met Chief Adviser to the interim government of Bangladesh, Mohammad Yunus, in Dhaka and expressed “concern” about the heightened security threats to the Indian mission and personnel based there.
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News Capsule
The Kursk gambit, Ukrainian tactics and battle realities
- Kyiv has been at the receiving end of Russia’s ongoing offensive inside Ukraine, which shows no sign of weakening despite Ukrainian territorial gains in Kursk. Russian forces are also poised to capture the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the Eastern Donetsk region in Ukraine. Pokrovsk is a vital logistics hub that gives Ukrainian forces considerable defensive strength, but it is currently under siege from rapidly advancing Russian forces. Ukrainian forces are now being ordered to withdraw from Pokrovsk, allowing Russian forces to make not just a significant breakthrough but also pave the way for them to capture the whole of the Donetsk region.
- Yet, the Ukrainian offensive stands out and deserves and merits closer scrutiny, because no country since Hitler’s Germany has ever invaded any part of Russia.
A look at ongoing Indian space missions
ISRO made major progress with missions like Aditya L1 for solar research, Gaganyaan TV-D1 testing crew safety, and XPoSat for X-ray studies.
Successful launches and tests include the SSLV’s final development flight, the INSAT-3DS meteorological satellite, and the RLV-TD landing experiments.
ISRO is focused on its 25-year roadmap for Gaganyaan, a new Next Generation Launch Vehicle, and the Bharatiya Antariksh Station by 2035.
NSIL manages commercial missions, and private companies like Agnikul Cosmos and Skyroot Aerospace are advancing their own space technologies.
New policies and licenses are boosting private sector participation and foreign investment in India’s space sector.
NDMA to monitor 189 high-risk glacial lakes to prevent disasters
- Following disasters inflicted by overflowing glacial lakes in the Himalayas, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has finalised a list of 189 “high-risk” glacial lakes for mitigation measures to reduce the risk emanating from them.
- Some of the proposed steps include constituting teams to investigate these lakes and attempt “lake-lowering measures”, which are done to buffer against any overflow, and mitigating potential damage in downstream States.
- Last October, the South Lhonak Lake in Sikkim, a glacier-formed lake, overflowed and inundated several parts of the Northeastern State killing at least 40 people and destroying the Chungthang dam.
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