Current Affairs Assam – March 2018
( Covers all important Assam Current Affairs & GK topics for the month of March 2018 )
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March 31
Interstitium is the newly discovered organ inside Human Body
Researchers have revealed a new organ Interstitium in the human body. This finding that could benefit the researchers understand the escalate of cancer in the human body. The conclusions of the finding were printed in the Nature Scientific Reports journal on March 27th , 2018. Researchers utilised a special live-imaging technique known as Probe-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy to trace the interstitium in numerous parts of the human body such as lungs and digestive region.
The finding was directed by David Carr-Locke and Petros Benias, doctors of Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Centre, while examining patient’s bile-duct for tumor. The research team gathered tissue of bile-ducts during 12 cancer surgeries that elaborated removal of pancreas and the bile-duct.
Madhya Pradesh got Geographical Indications for chicken breed Kadaknath
Madhya Pradesh has got Geographical Indications label for a chicken breed Kadaknath, whose black meat is in much demand in various areas of the state.
Kadaknath chicken:The meat content of Kadaknath chicken is protein-rich black meat and which is traded at a much higher price than other varieties of chicken. It is a native to Jhabua, Alirajpur and parts of Dhar district of MP.
The application for Geographical Indications registration of Kadaknath Chicken was forwarded by Gramik Vikas Trust, Jhabua, in 2012.
Twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space by China
China successfully sent pair of twin Beidou-3MEO satellites – Beidou-30 and Beidou-31 –into space as part of its third and final stage of launching its domestic Beidou (Compass) satellite navigation system. They were launched on board Long March-3B carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in south-west China’s Sichuan Province. It was a 269th mission for the Long March rocket family.
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