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Sitapur Solar Project: India's First Defence Solar-BESS Project

Current Affairs 17-Jun-2026

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a 250 MW Solar Power Project with an integrated Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) at Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh.

GRAPES-3 Telescope: New Discoveries on Cosmic Rays and Muons

Current Affairs 17-Jun-2026

Recently, researchers from Mumbai, Kochi, and Japan used the GRAPES-3 (Gamma Ray Astronomy PeV Energies Phase-3) telescope to study how the temperature of Earth's upper atmosphere and the Sun's magnetic field affect muons, subatomic particles arriving from space.