Current affairs- July 5, 2016
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Becomes First Port in
Country to Implement Logistics
Data Tagging of Containers:
Jawaharlal Nehru Port has become the first port in the country to implementlogistics data tagging of containers. The Port recently implemented
the logistics data bank tagging of containers, first of its kind facility,
which will help importers/exporters track their goods in transit through
logistics data bank service.
Impose Rs 5,000 fine for littering track: NGT to
Railways
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Indian Railways to
“strictly” impose fine of Rs 5,000 on those throwing waste on rail tracks and
act against them effectively.
- The tribunal has also directed the Railways to produce a list of offenders who have been fined till date for throwing garbage and other waste on tracks.
- The tribunal has also slammed Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) for the delay in relocation and rehabilitation of slum clusters near the railway tracks.
Juno successfully enters Jupiter orbit: NASA
NASA’s unmanned Juno spacecraft has successfully entered Jupiter’s
orbit, after a five year journey.
- Juno was launched nearly five years ago on a mission to study Jupiter’s composition and evolution. It’s the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter since Galileo. Galileo was deliberately crashed into Jupiter on September 21, 2003, to protect one of its discoveries — a possible ocean beneath Jupiter’s moon Europa.
New Horizons’ next goal
After its historic first-ever flyby of Pluto, NASA’s New Horizonsmission has received the green light to fly onward to an object deeper in the
Kuiper Belt.
- NASA has extended its mission to go further into the Kuiper Belt to explore an ancient object, which is a remnant from the time when the planets in our Solar System first formed.
- The Kuiper Belt Object, the spacecraft is now heading for, is provisionally called 2014 MU69.
Metal-organic
frameworks
Researchers from Belgium have
built a sensitive electronic nose with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that can detect pesticides and nerve gas in very low
concentrations.
