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  WHAT HAS HAPPENED ? The Adani Group reportedly has a US$290m commercial deal with a holding company controlled by Myanmar's armed forces, Who have been accused by UN investigators of committing genocide and crimes against humanity, according to an investigative report by Australia's ABC News Network. The investigation, based on a report published by human rights lawyers and activists, alleged Adani Ports is developing a container port in collaboration with Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC), a conglomerate funded by the military junta. In February, the United States imposed economic sanctions on MEC shortly after the military detained elected leaders and seized power in a coup. ABOUT THE DEAL Leaked documents in a report by human rights lawyers and activists reveal the scale of Adani's cooperation with the junta over a proposed container port in Yangon. Ajoint report by the Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) and activist group Justice For Myanmar (JFM) cla...

  Myanmar Air Strike On Thai Border, Troops Kill Dozens Including Children. DETAILS The Karen National Union (KNU), the armed ethnic group that controls the southeastern region, said fighter jets attacked Day Pu No in Papun district, an area held by its Brigade 5 forces, at around 8 p.m., forcing villagers to flee.   KAREN NATIONAL UNION The Karen National Union a political organisation with an armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), that claims to represent the Karen people of Myanmar (Burma). The official language and primary medium of instruction of Burma is Burmese (65%). Multiple languages are spoken in Burma, and include Shan (6.4%), Karen (5.2 ), Kachin (1.8%). Chin (1.6%), Mon (1.5%), and Rakhine (1.5%). English is also spoken, particularly by the educated urban elite, and is the secondary language learnt in government schools. Recent years, the education of Chinese language has been recovered, after long-term limitation from the government of Myanmar KA...

  QUANTUM EXPERIMENTS USING SATELLITE  TECHNOLOGY (QUEST) PROJECT QuEST, launched in 2017 , is being implemented by RRI in collaboration with ISRO. QuEST, carried out by RRI's Quantum Information and Computing (QulC) lab, is India's first project on satellite-based long-distance quantum communications. Feb 2021 : A team led by Prof Urbasi Sinha demonstrated a communication that was between two structures that were only 50 metres apart. QUANTUM COMMUNICATION 300M APART In the first step towards developing quantum satellite technology, ISRO late last week successfully demonstrated a technology enabling secure communication between two buildings that were 300 metres apart using free space quantum communication technology. The free-space QKD was demonstrated between two line-of-sight buildings within the campus. The experiment was performed at night, in order to ensure that there is no interference from the direct sunlight. "This is a major breakthrough for SAC (space app...

   China and the pro-Beijing Hong Kong government told 14 countries to stop accepting the British National (Overseas) passport, Which as of early this year can be used by some 3 million Hong Kong citizens to get UK citizenship.Instead, they have asked these states to use the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) passport. The British government, however, has rejected Hong Kong's authority to have a say in determining if the BNO passport is valid or not, prolonging the row between the UK and China. Earlier this year, the British government opened a special visa scheme as part of which Hong Kong residents get a chance to migrate to the UK and eventually apply for citizenship. These visas are issued to those in Hong Kong who hold a BN(O) passport and their immediate dependents, offering them a fast track option to get UK citizenship. Applicants who get the visa can live and work in the UK for 5 years, after which they can apply for settlement. Twelve months after this p...

 On 16th March 2021 , the Rajya Sabha passed the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020 . The Bill increases the time period within which an abortion can be legally carried out. The Bill amends the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971. The Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha in March 2020 . The Debate surrounding Abortion Two schools of thought over abortion: 1. Terminating a pregnancy is the choice of the pregnant woman, and a part of her reproductive rights. 2. The state has an obligation to protect life, and hence should provide for the protection of the foetus. Abortion laws and timelines are framed in India based on foetal health, and risk to the pregnant woman. 1st Trimester = up to 13 weeks. 2nd Trimester = up to 27 weeks. 3d Trimester = up to 42 weeks. Viability is usually placed at about 7 months (28 weeks)but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks. Voluntarily terminating a pregnancy is a criminal offence, under section 45 of the Indian Penal Code, 186...

 DURGA-2 The classified project, dubbed DURGA II (Directionally Unrestricted Ray-Gun Array), will see the Indian Army receive the 100-kilowat, lightweight directed-energy system IS IT THE SAME AS KALI 1 The KALI (Kilo Ampere Linear Injector) It is a Directed-energy weapon designed to work in such a way that if an enemy missile is launched towards India, it will quickly emit powerful pulses of Relativistic electron beam and destroy the target. Unlike laser beams, it does not bore a hole in the target but thoroughly damages the on-board electronic systems.   DURGA 2 The DRDO is currently requesting $100 million from the MoD for the 2021-2022 budget to produce a high-power laser weapon. DURGA IIl program is currently in the concept stage. DURGA Il is to be integrated with land-, sea- and air-based platforms DETAILS DRDO laboratories engaged in the development of directed-energy technology include the Laser Science and Technology Centre, the Defence Electronics Research Labora...

  New observations have shown a space hurricane for the first time in the ionosphere, sitting within the upper regions of the atmosphere of Earth where gases are ionized by radiation from the Sun. Satellite observations taken by four satellites in August 2014 showa long-lasting space hurricane over the North Pole of Earth. The observations, made by satellites in August 2014 , were only uncovered during retrospective analyses led by scientists from Shandong University in China. The space hurricane spotted by the research team in Earth's ionosphere was spinning in a counterclockwise direction (like hurricanes do in the Northern Hemisphere), had multiple spiral arms and lasted almost eight hours before gradually breaking down. In Earth's low atmosphere, hurricanes are destructive due to their great size, strong spiral winds with shears, and intense rain/precipitation. A space hurricane is a huge, funnel-like, spiral geomagnetic storm that occurs above the polar lonosphere o...