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Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia clarified that spectrum for satellite communication (satcom) would be allocated “administratively”, rather than through an auction of airwaves, which was proposed by Reliance Jio earlier.
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Seven people were killed in Jammu and Kashmir when suspected militants targeted the workers of infrastructure company APCO Infratech, which is constructing the Z-Morh tunnel on the Srinagar-Sonamarg highway. This is the first militant attack on a key infrastructure project in Jammu and Kashmir. In the past, militants have not targeted such infrastructure projects in the region.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “Iran’s proxy Hezbollah” had attempted to “assassinate” him and his wife, after a drone was fired towards his home in the town of Caesarea. While there were no casualties, the incident once again highlights Israel’s vulnerability to drones, despite having a highly advanced air defence system.
GS Paper - III
While accepting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year, molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun spent a few minutes lauding his experimental subject: a tiny worm named Caenorhabditis elegans. This is not this worm’s first brush with international stardom nor is it the first time C. elegans has been thanked for aiding award-winning work. Ruvkun’s award was actually the fourth Nobel Prize resulting from C. elegans research, cementing the lowly soil worm’s outsize role in scientific discovery.