Answer is C

• Australia is the world's largest producer of bauxite, with production amounting to an estimated 110 million metric tons in 2021.

Answer is B

What is the news?

• Home Ministry: National IPS Women’s Conference to be held in Shimla on August 21 and 22.
• This will be the 10th conference in Shimla. Women police officers of the country will share experiences on various issues.

Who will conduct?

• The national level conference will be held in collaboration with the Union Home Ministry Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) and Himachal Police.
• It will include 250 women constables to DGPs and para-military officers.

Background:

• The first conference was held in 2002. In this, the issue of toilets for women in the police station was raised.
• After this, the then Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani had released 90 thousand rupees each for each police station.
• There was talk of appointing women as SHOs in the districts. In Himachal, the first woman SHO was appointed in Solan.

Answer is D

• Narcondam and Barren are the two volcanic islands located in the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Answer: Patiala

• CHAIL was the 'summer capital' of the former princely state of Patiala. It came into being in the late 19th century when its handsome Maharaja, Bhupinder Singh, was banished from Shimla (Simla), the summer capital of British India for a dalliance with the British Commander-in-Chief's daughter.

Answer is C

A highly sensitive experiment named LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) has been used to detect dark matter in the universe in by
the U.S.

About LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ)

• It is the most sensitive dark matter detector of the world.
• It has been installed deep down the Black Hills in South Dakota in Sanford Underground Research Facility
(SURF).
• The experiment is led by DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Answer is B

• PLW Patiala is a fully owned Production Unit of Indian Railways, which was setup in October 1981 as “Diesel Component Works” (DCW), to meet the ever-increasing demand of high precision maintenance spares of ALCo diesel locomotives.
• It is located at the heritage city of Patiala and is pride of Punjab.

Answer is National Fertilizers Ltd (NFL)

What is the news?

• The National Fertilizers Ltd (NFL) will establish an NFL chair in Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Agriculture University, Himachal Pradesh (CSKAUHP), at Palampur.

Nirlep Singh Rai, CMD of NFL, said:

• An MoU would be signed with the CSKAUHP tomorrow at Palampur. The NFL will fund research carried out at its farms by scientists of the CSKAUHP.

Why important?

• It was the first-of-its-kind MoU being signed by the NFL to fund research in an agricultural university.

How it will help?

• MoU with the CSKAUHP with an idea that it would help the company develop various varieties of crops, cropping patterns and other technology related to farming that it can further sell in the market.

Answer is IIT Mandi

What is the news?

• Best Entrepreneurship Award to Landslide Monitoring System.
• The Startup Landslide Monitoring System (LMS) incubated by IIT Mandi has bagged the third prize under the Best Entrepreneurship Award 2022.
• The creation of this system is intyot services private limited has done so in collaboration with IIT Mandi.