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December 12 , 2020 1388 days 891 0
  • The turtle population in Red Sea is turning female due to rise in sea temperature.
  • The Global report ‘The hidden costs of cybercrime’ was generated by McAfee.
  • World record-breakers Mondo Duplantis of Sweden and Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela have been named the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics Awards 2020.
  • The Dandupur railway station situated on Lucknow-Varanasi rail section in Uttar Pradesh will be named Maa Barahi Devi Dham.
  • Indian-origin global health expert Anil Soni has been appointed as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the newly launched WHO Foundation.
  • After Sikkim, Lakshadweep is the first Union Territory to become 100 per cent organic.
  • The Indian Railways is to use LiDAR technique to conduct ground survey for the Delhi Varanasi High Speed Rail corridor.
    • LiDAR is Light Detection and Ranging technique.
  • The National Academy of Sciences of the USA has recently found that the microwave radiation is the major cause of the mysterious neurological illness called Havana syndrome.
    • The Havana syndrome started to infect the American diplomats and intelligence officials located in China, Cuba and other countries for more than four years now.
  • Narinder Singh Kapany (94), called the ‘father of fibre optics’, recently passed at the USA.
    • He was the first to transmit images through fibre optics back in 1954.

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