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Russia has reached an agreem ent with  Belarus  t o deploy its nuclear weapons in its territory. Belarus is neighbor of Russia. This deployment will keep Russian nuclear weapons near to rest of Europe. Russia also affirmed that this deployment will never violate non-proliferation agreements.   It is to be noted that there are American Nuclear weapons under US ontrol across military bases in Europe.  Belarus has friendly relation with Russia. It even allowed Kremlin to invade Ukraine from its territory.   But Belarus did not joined the war.  Russia announced it few days after its  joint declaration with China agreeing to restrict future nuclear weapons deployments abroad. The Guardian

Diplomatic Sources confirmed that there is no question of including any other country including India for developing nuclear powered submarine technology under AUKUS partnership. However, possibility of cooperation between India and AUKUS can be explored under pillier-2 which is related to in technologies like electronic warfare, cyberspace and quantum, where there is a scope for including other countries. Diplomatic Sources also ruled out the possibility of conversation between AUKUS and the Quad. Sources also ruled out cooperation between India and USA on this type of sensitive technology. It is to be noted that both U.S. and the U.K. are in the race to co-develop a fighter jet engine with India and France. General Electric GE-414 engine has already been selected for the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)-MK2. The US government is currently considering an application from General Electric to license manufacture the engine in India. Whereas UK is pitching for engine developed by Rolls Ro...

The AUKUS pathway is broken into phases with the first starting immediately. The United States and the United Kingdom will immediately increase port visits of conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines in Australia, and then as early as 2027, will begin rotating through Australia under the Submarine Rotational Force West.   This deployment will ensure Australian service members can continue familiarizing themselves with how these vessels operate, how they are properly maintained, and how to safely operate together. The increased presence of U.S. submarines will buttress regional stability and support the safe development of Australian stewardship of its own sovereign, conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine enterprise.   Under the next phase the United States will sell three Virginia-class submarines to Australia, with the potential for two more submarines depending on conditions. This will provide Australia with a conventionally armed, nuclear-powered ...

Relevance:  Alappuzha municipality plans bio-mining to clear legacy waste at Sarvodayapuram landfill - The Hindu Biomining  is the technique of extracting metals from  ores  and other solid materials typically using  prokaryotes , fungi or plants ( phytoextraction  also known as phytomining or biomining).  These organisms secrete different organic compounds that  chelate  metals from the environment and bring it back to the cell where they are typically used to coordinate electrons. It was discovered in the mid 1900s that microorganisms use metals in the cell. Some microbes can use stable metals such as  iron ,  copper ,  zinc , and  gold  as well as unstable atoms such as  uranium  and  thorium . Large  chemostats  of microbes can be grown to leach metals from their media. These vats of culture can then be transformed into many marketable metal compounds. Biomining is an  environmen...

It is the sixth consecutive successful flight of LVM3. In this mission the vehicle successfully placed 36 satellites belonging to the OneWeb Group Company. With this launch,  NSIL has successfully executed its contract to launch 72 satellites of OneWeb to Low Earth Orbit. About LVM 3: The  Launch Vehicle Mark-3  ( LVM3 ), previously referred as the  Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III  ( GSLV Mk3 ), is a three-stage medium-lift launch vehicle developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Primarily designed to launch communication satellites into geostationary orbit, it is also due to launch crewed missions under the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme. GSLV Mk III has a higher payload capacity than it's predecessor, GSLV Mk II. After several delays and a sub-orbital test flight on 18 December 2014, ISRO successfully conducted the first orbital test launch of GSLV Mk III on 5 J...