CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -A tribute to Professor Govind Swarup, FRS: the Father of Indian Radio Astronomy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Regarded as the “Father of Indian Radio Astronomy”, Govind Swarup was the founder-director of TIFR – National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) in Pune. Govind Swarup, the man who pioneered radio astronomy in India, died on Monday in Pune following a brief illness. He was 91.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), located near Pune, Junnar, near Narayangaon at khodad in India, is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre wavelengths.