Todays on History (December 28^th, 1885)

• In 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded by Allan Octavian Hume. The party was a nationalist movement that played a key role in India’s independence from the British, after which it turned into a political party.

Summary of Today’s News

Deployment of three warships

• INS Mormugao, INS Kochi and INS Kolkata were deployed in the Arabian Sea
  • due to attacks on ships passing through Red Sea trade route in West Asia

INS Imphal the war ship

• Indian Navy has commissioned it
• It is the third of four indigenous Visakhapatnam class stealth-guided missile destroyers under project 15B.
• Other two are- INS Visakhapatnam and INS Mormugao.

Project 15B

1. Project 15 (Delhi class)
2. Project 15A (Kolkata class)

• Project 15B is the third in the series of

• These are indigenous destroyers with upgraded capabilities and greater indigenous content.

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)  providing easy to use testing to tackle anaemia in India

What is Anaemia:

• It is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or the Hemoglobin concentration within them is lower than normal.
• Hemoglobin is a protein found in red cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all other organs.
• It mainly affects women and children.

Electronic Soil (e-Soil)

• Researchers develop ‘electronic soil’,
• It is a low-power bioelectronic growth substrate, prapared for hydroponic cultivation.
• E-Soil can electrically stimulate the root system and growth environment of plants.

FEAST (Finite Element Analysis of Structures)- Software

• Developed by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre- Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala)
• FEA is a computerized method for predicting how a product reacts to real-world forces
• FEAST will be used to perform FEA of various types of structures including rockets, aircraft, satellites, buildings, etc.

Ionospheric observations at Bharati station, Antarctica,

• It found a substantial seasonal variation in ionospheric density.

What is Ionosphere:

• It is a part of Earth’s upper atmosphere, which is partially ionized extending from 100-1000km.
• It reflects and modifies radio waves (used for communication and navigation).

(PM JANMAN) Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan

• The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has initiated an Information, Education, and Communication campaign on Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan(PM JANMAN )

What Tansen Samaroh 

• Celebrated every year in the month of December in Gwalior district of  Madhya Pradesh.
• Artists from all over India are invited to deliver vocal and instrumental performances to pay tribute to the Great Indian Musical Maestro Tansen.