TEXMiN, which signed a Joint Statement of Intent with NITI Aayog on critical minerals, is located at which institute?
- A.IIT Kharagpur
- B.IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
- C.IIT Bombay
- D.IIT Madras
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Explanation
The correct answer is IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. TEXMiN is the Technology Translation Research Park at that institute and is an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology; the Joint Statement of Intent with NITI Aayog was signed during a visit by a Member of NITI Aayog to the campus. Option A is wrong because IIT Kharagpur, though it hosts research parks of its own, was not party to this agreement. Option C is wrong because IIT Bombay had no role in the signing. Option D is wrong because IIT Madras was not named in the announcement either. The Dhanbad institute, long associated with mining and metallurgical studies, is the natural home for a park working on the critical and strategic minerals value chain, from exploration and processing to refining, advanced materials and recycling.
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Practice Questions
The NITI Aayog-TEXMiN Joint Statement of Intent is aligned with the objectives of which mission?
- A.National Green Hydrogen Mission
- B.National Critical Mineral Mission
- C.National Quantum Mission
- D.Deep Ocean Mission
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The collaboration is stated to align with that mission's objectives and with the vision of an Aatmanirbhar and Viksit Bharat, as it seeks to advance indigenous technological capability and build resilient and sustainable value chains for critical minerals.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was named as a secondary resource for recovering critical minerals?
- A.Coal fly ash
- B.River sand
- C.Limestone dust
- D.Sea salt
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Addressing the symposium on critical minerals and rare earths, the NITI Aayog Member highlighted the scope for recovering critical minerals from secondary resources, naming coal fly ash, red mud, mine tailings and electronic waste.
Read the full explanation →In which journal was the study on asymmetric expansion of the solar eruption published?
- A.Nature Astronomy
- B.Astrophysical Journal Letters
- C.Current Science
- D.Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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The paper reporting that the coronal mass ejection did not expand as a symmetric bubble appeared in that journal, and it was based on the eruption that occurred on 5 August 2024, observed from an active region near the western limb of the Sun.
Read the full explanation →Which institution designed and fabricated the VELC payload of Aditya-L1?
- A.Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
- B.Indian Institute of Astrophysics
- C.Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
- D.Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
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The coronagraph was designed and fabricated at the institute's MGK Menon Lab for Space Sciences on the CREST campus at Hosakote, with substantial support from ISRO, and the scientists who carried out this study also belong to the IIA: the lead author is Saurabh Tripathi, a research student there, the…
Read the full explanation →What did the VELC observations reveal about the coronal mass ejection, for the first time?
- A.That it expanded as a perfectly symmetric bubble
- B.That it expanded non-uniformly and became asymmetric
- C.That it did not move towards the Earth at all
- D.That it carried no ionised iron
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Until this study a coronal mass ejection was thought to swell outward from the Sun like a simple symmetric bubble; the VELC spectra, read together with imaging from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and a three-dimensional model, showed that the expansion was uneven.
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