Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease : Spreading Rapidly A viral infection known as Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD) is spreading rapidly among children across Delhi and neighbouring Haryana, prompting health experts and schools to issue advisories. Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD) is a very contagious illness caused by a virus. The disease gets […]

Frontier 50 Initiative: The NITI Aayog launched the Frontier 50 Initiative to amplify grassroots adoption of technology and scale impact creation. Frontier 50 Initiative will support 50 Aspirational Districts / Blocks to pick use cases from the Repository and deploy those frontier technologies that have potential to accelerate saturation of services across ADP/ABP themes. Launched […]

Bureau of Indian Standards: The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has issued as many as 84 Quality Control Orders (QCOs) based on the recommendations of various ministries and departments. It is the National Standard Body of India established under the BIS Act 2016. It was established for the harmonious development of the activities of standardization, […]

Portable Ion Chromatograph: A team of scientists from the University of Tasmania has developed a portable ion chromatograph, Aquamonitrix, that allows real-time, on-site detection of nitrate and nitrite levels. It Is a compact, low-pressure ion chromatograph that can separate and detect anions (like nitrate and nitrite) in real-time, outside traditional laboratory settings. Developed By University […]

WHO has added GLP-1 receptor agonists to its Model List of Essential Medicines (EML) for type-2 diabetes: The WHO has added GLP-1 receptor agonists (semaglutide, dulaglutide, liraglutide, tirzepatide) to its Model List of Essential Medicines (EML) for type-2 diabetes with comorbidities like obesity and cardiovascular/kidney disease.Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) drugs are medications that mimic the action […]

INS Androth: The Indian Navy has received the second indigenously built anti-submarine warfare-shallow watercraft INS Andorth. INS Androth draws its name from Androth Island in the Lakshadweep archipelago. It is the second of eight anti-submarine warfare-shallow watercraft (ASW-SWC) built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata. The ASW SWC ships have been indigenously designed […]

Eustoma: Exotic Eustoma has bloomed for the first time in Odisha in a polyhouse at Sanatanpali, Sambalpur district, developed by CSIR–NBRI. Until NBRI’s breakthrough, Eustoma (Lisianthus) was mostly imported from countries like the Netherlands and Kenya for premium events, weddings, and luxury décor.Eustoma, also known as Lisianthus or Prairie Gentian, is a herbaceous annual flower […]

Australia approved the world’s first vaccine to save koalas from Chlamydia: Koala bear (Phascolarctos cinereus) is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia.It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the wombats.Koalas are asocial animals, congregating only during the breeding season.They spend most of their time eating […]

National Botanical Research Institute: New Research The National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) recently achieved a breakthrough by cultivating the exotic flower, Eustoma, native to Mexico and America, in Odisha after successfully growing it on its campus in Lucknow. National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) is amongst one of the constituent research institutes of the Council of […]

STAR Missile: STAR ends India’s dependence on expensive imported target systems for missile training. The Supersonic TARget (STAR) missile is an indigenous, high-speed missile designed to simulate realistic threats for training India’s armed forces. It was developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Unlike combat missiles, STAR doesn’t aim to destroy enemy targets—instead, […]