Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Van Allen Probe A: NASA’s 600 kg Van Allen Probe A satellite is falling back to Earth, raising questions about whether people on the ground should be concerned. NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission was the first mission to use two spacecraft in tandem to study Earth’s radiation belts. Originally designed for a two-year mission, the […]

India’s 1st Comprehensive Checklist of Fireflies: Scientists compiled the first-of-its-kind checklist of Indian fireflies using more than 260 years of scattered scientific records, including documentation from 1881 to 2025, identifying 92 species across 27 genera.The checklist was created to address the lack of accessible modern literature on Indian fireflies and serve as a foundational reference […]

Euthanasia: SC Allows 1st Passive Euthanasia in Harish Rana Case. The Supreme Court (SC), in Harish Rana vs Union of India Case (2026), permitted passive euthanasia by allowing withdrawal of life support, marking the first application of the 2018 Common Cause judgment recognising the right to die with dignity. The Supreme Court of India allowed […]

Peptide Therapy: The growing global interest in peptide-based therapies for treating diseases and enhancing wellness has raised both medical opportunities and safety concerns, prompting experts to call for greater caution and regulation. Peptides are short chains of amino acids, which are the fundamental building blocks of life. They are essentially smaller versions of proteins. While […]

2025 seismic code : BIS The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has withdrawn its 2025 seismic code (IS 1893) following concerns raised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). The previous standard, IS 1893 of 2016, is now back in effect. MoHUA raised serious concerns, like huge construction cost escalation, estimated at 10-15% […]

DART Mission: A groundbreaking study has revealed that NASA’s DART Mission not only altered the motion of a small asteroid within its system but also slightly changed the orbit of the entire asteroid pair around the Sun. DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) was a NASA space probe dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of […]

What is the Doomsday Fish? Two giant oarfish, rarely seen deep-sea creatures sometimes called “doomsday fish,” were recently spotted near the shore in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in an extremely rare sighting. The oarfish is commonly known as the “doomsday fish”. It is a deep-sea dweller that rarely comes near the surface. Scientific Name: Regalecus […]

Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Delhi’s upcoming Electric Vehicle (HEV) policy plans to extend road tax and registration fee exemptions, currently available for battery electric vehicles (BEVs), to hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) as well. A Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) is an automobile that combines a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) with an electric propulsion system to achieve […]

LIGO-India’s 1st Gravitational Wave Observatory: India’s ambitious Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) project in Hingoli district, Maharashtra, is facing significant implementation delays, raising concerns over its timeline despite official assurances that it will be completed by 2030. LIGO-India is India’s first major gravitational-wave observatory and represents the country’s contribution to the global gravitational-wave detection […]

Lake and Air Watch initiative: The Gujarat government has launched the ‘Lake and Air Watch’ initiative to monitor and improve lake health and air quality across cities using satellite and real-time monitoring systems. The ‘Lake and Air Watch’ initiative is a technology-driven environmental monitoring programme launched by the Gujarat Urban Development Mission (GUDM) under the […]