Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

SAHI and BODH Initiative: The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare will launch two key national initiatives namely SAHI and BODH at the India AI Summit at Bharat Mandapam. The Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (SAHI) is a national guidance framework to enable the safe, ethical, evidence-based, and inclusive adoption of […]

India-AI Impact Summit 2026: The India-AI Impact Summit 2026 commenced at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, organised by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), marking the first major global Artificial Intelligence (AI) summit hosted in the Global South and showcasing India’s leadership in inclusive, development-focused AI. The Summit is hosted under the India […]

Urban Challenge Fund: The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister of India approved the launch of the Urban Challenge Fund (UCF). It is a new centrally sponsored scheme of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The Fund aims to build resilient, productive, inclusive and climate-responsive cities, positioning those as key driver of the […]

Nitric Oxide Against Drug-Resistant Pneumonia: A study has shown that high-dose inhaled nitric oxide (300 ppm) significantly reduced drug-resistant pneumonia, offering a possible new strategy against antimicrobial resistance.Drug-resistant pneumonia, particularly caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, is a serious complication in Intensive Care Units (ICUs), responsible for about one in five hospital pneumonias.It is an inflammatory condition […]

Chirality-Based Electronics: A new study published in Nature has demonstrated a device that can separate electrons based on their chirality (handedness) without using powerful magnetic fields, marking progress towards low-power devices.Chirality in electrons: Similar to how the left and right hands are mirror images, electrons in topological semimetals possess left- or right-handed chirality.Chirality represents a […]

UNEP FI Impact Centre: UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has launched the UNEP FI Impact Centre, consolidating its SDGs & Impact workstream into a dedicated centre of expertise.The UNEP FI Impact Centre is a specialised centre of expertise under the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) focused on advancing impact management in financial […]

Exposome: Scientists are launching an ambitious global effort to map the “human exposome” — the lifelong mix of environmental and chemical exposures that drive most diseases. It can be defined as the measure of all the exposures of an individual in a lifetime, from conception onward and how those exposures relate to health. The International […]

Bio-based Chemicals: India has prioritised bio-based chemicals and enzymes as a priority area under the Department of Biotechnology’s BioE3 policy. Bio-based chemicals are industrial chemicals produced using biological feedstocks like sugarcane, corn, starch or biomass residues. These are often produced through fermentation or enzymatic processes. Examples: Organic acids (such as lactic acid), bio-alcohols, solvents, surfactants, […]

Country’s First Underwater Road-cum-Rail Tunnel under Brahmaputra River: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved India’s first underwater road-cum-rail tunnel under the Brahmaputra River in Assam at a cost of ₹18,662 crore.A 33.7 km four-lane access-controlled Greenfield connectivity project, including a 15.79 km twin-tube underwater tunnel beneath the Brahmaputra River in Assam.It will […]

AgriStack: The Finance Minister announced the launch of Bharat-VISTAAR, a multilingual AI tool to integrate the AgriStack portals and the ICAR package on agricultural practices with AI systems. AgriStack is a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for the farm sector. It is an initiative under the Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM). It comprises three foundational registries or […]