Published on: December 9, 2022
Snippets:9 December 2022
Snippets:9 December 2022
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Maharashtra is the first State in the country to have a separate Ministry for the Divyang people
- K V Shaji has been named Chairman of NABARD.
- Volodymyr Zelensky is Time Magazine’s 2022 Person of the Year.
- Dina Boluarte is the Peru’s first female president
- Aditya Mittal has become India’s 77th chess Grandmaster during an ongoing tournament in Spain.
- Mirabai Chanu wins silver in 2022 World Weightlifting Championships at Colombia
- Justice Tashi Rabstan became the first Ladakhi to reach the position of Acting Chief Justice of the joint High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh
- The ISRO has signed an MoU with Social Alpha, a multistage innovation curation and venture development platform for science and technology start-ups, to launch SpaceTech Innovation Network (SpIN)
- Photometric observations taken with the 6 m Devasthal Optical Telescope detects unexpected kilonova emission from ‘a long-duration gamma-ray burst’
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Gamma Ray Bursts are powerful astronomical cosmic bursts of high-energy gamma-ray. It emits more energy in a few seconds than our Sun will emit in its lifetime. They has two distinct emission phases, the short-lived prompt emission (the initial burst phase that emits gamma-rays) and followed by a long-lived multi-wavelength afterglow phase.
