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Ehang company based in Guangzhou, China has developed an air taxi named EH216-S. It is an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that can fly with two passengers or 600 pounds of cargo. China-based Ehang company has created a fully automatic flying air taxi.

Indian team: Uday Saharan (captain), Soumya Kumar Pandey (vice-captain), Arshin Kulkarni, Adarsh Singh, Rudra Mayur Patel, Sachin Dhas, Priyanshu Molia, Musheer Khan, Dhanush Gowda, Avinash Rao (wicketkeeper), M Abhishek, Inesh Mahajan (wicketkeeper), Aaradhya Shukla, Raj Limbani, Naman Tiwari.

Italy recently banned meat that was grown in laboratories. This has happened for the first time in Europe. Before this, no European country had banned artificial meat.

Mumbai Indians included Hardik in the team through a big trade. He joined the team as the captain of Gujarat Titans in 2022. The team had bought him for Rs 15 crores and this time he has been bought for Rs 17.50 crores.

Solution: NASA's Curiosity rover completed 4,000 Martian days on Mars on November 7, 2023. The rover landed in Gale Crater on Mars on August 5, 2012. Its mission is to study “whether there were conditions to support microbial life on ancient Mars”. The car-sized rover has traveled about 32 km on Mars and drilled its 39th sample, a rock called “Sequoia”. The rover is 10 feet long, 9 feet wide and 7 feet tall.

  Solution: China has the largest weighting on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, a globally tracked gauge, at about 30%. India is in second place and now has a weighting of 15.5% in the index, while Taiwan has a weighting of 15.11%. India's weight has increased from 12.97% at the end of January. If South Korea transitions from emerging market to developed market category, India's weight could potentially increase to about 18.5%.

Solution: India's space agency, ISRO, noted that the High Energy L1 Orbiting Have caught it. HEL1OS was commissioned on October 27, 2023, and is currently in the process of fine-tuning its thresholds and calibration operations. ISRO said the instrument is designed to monitor the Sun's high-energy X-ray activity with rapid timescales and high-resolution spectra.

Solution: The Government of Jharkhand launched a special initiative called Abua Bir Dishome Campaign to distribute land ownership certificates to individuals and communities as per the Forest Rights Act. The Forest Rights Act of 2006, also known as the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, provides for self-cultivation and habitation through Individual Forest Rights (IFR) and Community Forest Rights (CFR). Provides rights to.

Solution: Russia has officially withdrawn from international security agreements banning the use of conventional weapons, saying that NATO expansion has made such cooperation impossible. NATO announced it was formally suspending a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia's exit from the accord. Most of NATO's 31 allies signed the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, aimed at preventing Cold War rivals from amassing forces on or near their mutual borders. It was signed in November 1990.

Solution: Recently Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched “Women for Water, Water for Women Campaign” under its flagship scheme Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT). It was launched in partnership with the Ministry's National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM). Odisha Urban Academy is the knowledge partner in this.