Brain-Eating Amoeba
- Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM) is a brain infection caused by “brain-eating amoeba”.
- PAM is a rare and often fatal brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri amoeba or brain-eating amoeba, found in contaminated warm, freshwater sources like wells and ponds.
- Naegleria fowleri enters the body through the nose during swimming or bathing in contaminated freshwater, travels to the brain, causing tissue destruction and swelling.
- It is not transmitted through drinking water or person-to-person.
- Mortality is extremely high with most patients dying within 1–18 days, often within 5 days of onset.
Chandrayaan-3
- Chandrayaan-3 is India's third lunar mission, launched with its lander, Vikram, rover and Pragya with the objective of landing near the South Pole region of the Moon
- Chandrayaan-3 Mission is the second attempt of the Indian Space Research Organisation after the Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate the capability of India in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface.
- India became the first nation to soft-land on the surface of the Lunar south pole and overall the fourth to do a soft landing anywhere on the Earth’s natural satellite.
- Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Chandrayaan-3 Mission by using the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (LVM3)
Bairabi–Sairang rail line
- Mizoram’s capital Aizawl has been successfully connected to the national railway network via the Bairabi–Sairang rail line
- It became the 4th Northeastern capital with rail access after Assam (Dispur), Tripura (Agartala), and Arunachal Pradesh (Itanagar).
- India has the 4th largest railway network in the world, following the US, China and Russia.
- The Aizawl-Silchar highway via Sairang takes around five hours.
- Trains from Sairang, including a proposed Rajdhani Express could reduce travel time to 1.5 hours.
- The project will lower transportation costs and reduce truck dependency