Daily Current affairs - May 28th, 2017 for all competitive exams
In an attempt to document and preserve the
cultural and social diversity of the Reang, a unique and detailed publication
by Lincoln Reang, titled ‘Mapping with respect to Particularly Vulnerable
Tribal Groups in Tripura’, is being published by the Tribal Research and
Cultural Institute, Government of Tripura.
- The
Reang dialect is of Tibetan-Burmese origin and is locally referred to as
Kau Bru. Though there is no script for the language, some publications
follow the Bengali or Roman script to keep the language alive.
- Reang
(also known as Riang) are among the 19 tribes of Tripura, the only one to
be classified as a ‘Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG)’ in the
State.
For the first time, Indian researchers have been
able to achieve a measure of success in developing cartilages that are
molecularly similar to the ones seen in human knees.
- While
scientists attempting to tissue-engineer cartilage have focussed on
growing cells on porous scaffolds, in a paradigm shift, a team led by
Prof. Sourabh Ghosh from the Department of Textile Technology at the
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has been successful in 3D
bioprinting of cartilage using a bioink.
- The bioink has high concentration of
bone-marrow derived cartilage stem cells, silk proteins and a few factors.
The chemical composition of the bioink supports cell growth and long-term
survival of the cells. The cartilage developed in the lab has remained
physically stable for up to six weeks. The results of the study were
published in the journal Bioprinting.
Odisha-based activist Akhand entered the Limca
Book of Records for the highest number of replies received from a single
organisation on a Right to Information (RTI) application.
- In
less than three months, between February and April 2016, Mr. Akhand
received 333 replies from the Department of Posts. According to the Limca
Book of Records, he had received 162 replies in February, 157 in March and
14 in April.
Preparing for North Korea’s growing threat, U.S.
will try to shoot down an intercontinental-range missile for the first time in
a test next week. The goal is to more closely simulate a North Korean ICBM
aimed at the U.S. homeland.
- The
American interceptor has a spotty track record, succeeding in nine of 17
attempts against missiles of less-than-intercontinental range since 1999.
The most recent test, in June 2014, was a success, but that followed three
straight failures.
- The
system has evolved from the multibillion-dollar effort triggered by
President Ronald Reagan’s 1983 push for a “Star Wars” solution to
ballistic missile threats during the Cold War when the Soviet Union was
the only major worry.
The State Sangha Maha Nayaka, the Myanmar’s
highest Buddhist institution, officially banned Ma Ba Tha for motivating riots
largely targeting Myanmar’s Muslim minority.
- Ma
Ba Tha and its high-profile leading monk, Wirathu, have been accused of
summoning anti-Islamic preaching and stirring up mob violence in
Buddhist-majority Myanmar, causing deaths of Muslims and destruction of
their property.
Scientists have discovered a fish carrying genes
only from its father in the nucleus of its cells. Found in a type of fish
called Squalius alburnoides ,
which normally inhabits rivers in Portugal or Spain.
- This
is the first documented instance in vertebrates of a father producing a
near clone of itself through sexual reproduction — a rare phenomenon
called androgenesis, the researchers reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science .
Realty major DLF’s promoters are likely to enter
into an agreement with Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC in the next few
weeks to sell their 40% stake in rental business for an estimated Rs. 13,000
crore.
- DLF, the county’s largest realty firm,
expects the deal to be concluded by October this year after receiving
regulatory and all other approvals, its CFO Ashok Tyagi.
The biggest integrated steel plant of Odisha was
made operational with the commissioning of the country’s largest blast furnace.
- The
plant with its 4,554 cubic meter blast furnace will make Odisha the
fourth-largest steelmaker in the country.
- With this, JSPL also becomes the first
company to complete its mega steel project as per the commitment in the
memorandum of understanding with the government of Odisha.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish strategic
theorist who was National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter in the
tumultuous years of the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan in the late 1970s, died
- Brzezinski was also a prime mover behind the commando mission sent to rescue the U.S. hostages held by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s revolutionary forces in Iran after the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi — a disastrous desert expedition in April 1980 that claimed eight lives and never reached Tehran.
