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“MY IAF”: Indian Air Force launches new mobile application for aspirants

 

As part of the ‘Digital India’ initiative, the Chief of the Air Staff, Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria has launched a mobile application named ‘My IAF’ containing career-related information with job details that are going to be useful for candidates.

How will it serve the candidates?

The app will serve the candidates by providing information regarding the selection process, training, pay scale, and other important details for the post of officer and airmen.

About the app

• The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has developed the mobile app.
• The app will provide brief information about the history and stories of IAF.
• It contains entertaining videos and adventurous games.
• Other than the candidates, one can have the experience to observe the aircraft in the inventory.
• Real-time updates of IAF will also be visible.

What is the function of C-DAC?

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing is an autonomous scientific society, founded in 1988 and conducts its operation under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It is associated with various research initiatives related to the High-Performance Computing, Multilingual Computing and Heritage Computing, Professional Electronics, Software Technologies, Health Informatics, and Education.

Indian Air Force

IAF is the supreme air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. It was founded in 1932. It is headquartered at New Delhi (Vayu Bhawan). The motto of the organization is ‘Glory that touches the sky’. Arjan Singh is the first and only Officer to be promoted to the five star rank of Marshal of the Indian Air Force.

India’s longest ropeway service opened in Guwahati over Brahmaputra

 

Northeast Indian city, Guwahati has earned the longest river crossing ropeway in India across the Brahmaputra river. The project has been completed with an enormous effort of 11 years.

About the ropeway

• It was installed by Kolkata-based Samir Damodar Ropeways.
• The 1.8-kilometer long ropeway linked North Guwahati to Guwahati City.
• The carrying capacity of the ropeway is 31, including 1 Operator.
• It has been designed according to the relevant Indian and international standards.

What are the benefits of the ropeway?

• It will reduce the travel time to cross the river which usually takes a long time using ferries.
• It will ensure an uninterrupted transportation facility. Previously the rise in the river caused impediments in the transport as well as more prone to accidents.
• A total of about 250 persons per hour would be able to cross the river.
• The newly launched ropeway will boost tourism.
• The ropeway provides a bird’s eye view of the Urvashi Island and Umananda Temple on Peacock Island.

Some facts about the ropeway system in India

• Gulmarg Gondola is the second-highest cable car in the world and the highest and longest cable car in Asia.
• Pavagadh Gujarat is the third busiest ropeway of India.
• Haridwar Uttarakhand is the first city of India having two passenger ropeways.

Mansa Devi ropeways service is the busiest ropeway of India.

ASTROSAT detected UV light from a galaxy, 9.3 billion light-years away

Pune based Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics confirmed that the AstroSat satellite has detected an extreme ultraviolet (UV) ray from a galaxy that is 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth.

What is ASTROSAT?

• Astrosat is the first multi-wavelength space telescope launched by ISRO from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in 2015. 
• It has a set of five unique X-ray and ultraviolet telescopes. The mission duration was planned for 5 years.

About the IUCAA led global team

• The discovery of UV light was conducted by a team that consists of scientists from India, Switzerland, France, the USA, Japan, and the Netherlands.
• The team was led by Dr. Kanak Saha.
• The news of the discovery was published in an online, peer-reviewed, scientific journal called “Nature Astronomy”.
• The team observed the galaxy that is located in the Hubble Extreme Deep Field.

Key findings could be made

• It will help to find how the dark ages of the universe ended and transition in the light ages took place in the universe.

NASA’s previous approach

• NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was commissioned with the same objective as ASTROSAT but it failed to detect any UV emission. 
• As reported by experts, the background noise in the ultraviolet detector of ASTROSAT is much less than that of the Hubble Space Telescope.

What is the special OMO which has been launched by the RBI? How does it impact the economy?

 The Reserve Bank of India recently declared that it is going to conduct simultaneous purchase and sale activities of government securities under the Open Market Operations for an amount of Rs 20,000 crore in two channels.

Open Market Operation (OMO)

• An open market operation (OMO) is the activity of the central bank that is associated with giving or taking liquidity in its currency to the banks or from the banks. 
• The central bank, (generally RBI In the case of India) can either buy or sell government bonds in the open market.

Impacts on the economy

• OMO help to regulate the money supply in the economy.
• Purchasing government securities injects the money supply in the economy.
• Selling government securities flows out liquidity from the system.
• RBI conducts the Open Market Operations through commercial banks.
• OMO reduces the impact of liquidity on the interest rate and inflation rate.

RBI decided to buy government securities including
6.18% maturing on 4th November 2024.
8.24% maturing on 15th February 2027.
5.79% maturing on 11th May 2030.
7.95%maturing on 28th August 2032.

The purchase and sale operation of government securities at the same time includes purchasing government securities of longer maturities and selling the same amounts of securities of shorter maturities.