• The Hyderabad-based National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) has launched a training programme of Sustainable Livelihoods and Adaptation to Climate Change (SLACC) to help Rural Poor Farm Holds adapt to Climate Change and sustain their livelihoods.
• Under the National Rural Livelihood Mission, the NIRDPR has launched the training programme.

The objectives of Mission Chandrayaan-2 are:

1. To map the variations in lunar surface composition extensively in order to trace back the origin and evolution of the moon.
2. Focused studies on the extent of water molecule distribution on the surface, below the surface and in the tenuous lunar exosphere to address the origin of water on moon.

• SLACC Programme aims to help Rural Poor Farm Holds adapt to Climate Change and sustain their livelihoods.
• It has been launched under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM).
• Total 638 drought and flood-prone villages of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar are being covered on pilot basis under this first of its kind initiative. It will be scaled up nationwide in due course.

• ISRO’s Chairman has recently stated that India will not join the International Space Station (ISS).
• He also said that, India is planning to launch its own space station.
• A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting crew members, designed to remain in space for an extended period of time and for other spacecraft to dock.
• Currently, there is only one fully functioning space station in Earth's lower orbit, the International Space Station and astronauts conduct different experiments in it.

• The Kimberley Process is an international certification scheme that regulates trade in rough diamonds.
• It aims to prevent the flow of conflict diamonds, while helping to protect legitimate trade in rough diamonds.
• It has no permanent offices or permanent staff.
• India is one of the founder members of Kimberley Process Certification Scheme and is the Chair of Kimberley Process for the year 2019 with Russian Federation as Vice Chair.

• The Governing Council of NITI Aayog comprises of:

1. The Prime Minister of India
2. Chief Ministers of all the States and Union Territories with Legislatures
3. Lt. Governors of other Union Territories
4. Other special invitees.

• The Aditya-1 mission was conceived as a 400kg class satellite carrying one payload, the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) and was planned to launch in an 800 km low earth orbit. 
• A Satellite placed in the halo orbit around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/ eclipses. 
• Therefore, the Aditya-1 mission has now been revised to “Aditya-L1 mission” and will be inserted in a halo orbit around the L1, which is 1.5 million km from the Earth.
• Aditya-1 was meant to observe only the solar corona. 
• Aditya-L1 with additional experiments can now provide observations of Sun's Photosphere (soft and hard X-ray), Chromosphere (UV) and corona (Visible and NIR).

• Lagrangian point is a point where the attraction by the Sun and the Earth becomes equal.
• The point doesn't experience gravitational force.
• If a satellite is put there, it won't get deflected, yet the captured data will be accurate.