Current Affairs

Sachin Rammorthy, a class 11 student from Bengaluru has won a trip to Google's headquarters in California. He was working for two months on Liquid Galaxy which is an open source project, funded by Google. Amongst several other participants, Sachin is one of the fifty winners of Google's annual open source software development competition. To receive his reward, he's all set to fly to Googleplex in Mountain view, California and will also represent India internationally.

Climate Prediction Centre (CPC) of the United States (US) National Weather Service reports that India could be facing a delay in monsoon due to the suppression of Madden -Julian Oscillation (MJO) Wave. However it also confirms that the temperature and the process of cloud building and rainfall will gather pace at the end of May 2019. As per India Met Department (IMD), monsoon has entered southern parts of Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal, and looks set to advance in the next three days.

ISRO is planning to send a mission to visit Venus next as a part of its 7 interplanetary mission. The mission comprises of various studies and research to be conducted by Chandrayaan 3, Mars Orbitor 2, etc on Sun's corona, Also, amongst several other missions, visiting Venus in 2023 is also on Isro's travel list. And the mission to Venus will focus on researching and studying the surface, atmospheric chemistry, reciprocation with solar radiation to count a few.