National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange:
- NCDEX is an online commodity exchange based in India.
- It provides a commodity exchange platform for market participants to trade in commodity derivatives.
- It is a public limited company, incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 and is regulated by the SEBI.
- It offers futures trading in 31 agricultural and non-agricultural commodities.
Exocomet:
- An exocomet or extrasolar comet is a comet outside the Solar System i.e those that orbit stars other than the Sun.
- They are significant because they are considered fossil bodies that have seen the physical and chemical conditions prevailing at the time of planet formation.
Rogue Planet:
- A rogue planet or starless planet is a planetary-mass object that orbits the galaxy directly.
- They have either been ejected from the planetary system in which they formed or have never been gravitationally bound to any star or brown dwarf.
Babur – 3:
- Pakistan launched a Submarine Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM), Babur-3, having a range of 450 kilometers.
- It is fired from an underwater, mobile platform and hit its target with precise accuracy.
- It completes Pakistan’s nuclear triad i.e a nuclear-armed nation's ability to deliver nuclear warheads from launch systems based on land, in the air and from sea.
