Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Artemis 1 : Recent Updates The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States is set to launch the Artemis-1 mission, which will take humans back to the Moon. It is only a lunar Orbiter mission even though, unlike most Orbiter missions, it has a return-to-Earth target — it is intended to lay […]

Indian Biological Data Bank : Faridabad The government has for the first time set up a digitised repository where Indian researchers will store biological data from publicly funded research, reducing their dependency on American and European data banks. The digitised data will be stored on a four-petabyte supercomputer called ‘Brahm’. A petabyte equals 10,00,000 gigabytes […]

International Forum On ‘Right To Drug-Free Childhood’: The UN-backed conclave will open in Thiruvananthapuram on November 16, featuring prominent voices against drug abuse from India and abroad. It is organised by Fourth Wave Foundation (FWF) in partnership with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and World Federation Against Drugs (WFAD). Theme: ‘Children Matter-Right […]

Guidelines For Uplinking And Downlinking Of Television Channels In India, 2022: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has issued guidelines and specified new uplinking and downloading rules. Earlier, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) had issued an advisory stating that any kind of broadcasting be done only through Prasar Bharti. New Provisions: Television channels […]

Vikram-S : India’s First Privately Developed Rocket India’s first privately developed rocket, Vikram-S, is poised to create history as it undergoes final preparations at the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) launchpad in Sriharikota for launch between November 12 and 16. It was developed by the Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace. The mission named ‘Prarambh’ (the beginning), since […]

Falcon Heavy Rocket: On November 1, Elon Musk-owned SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into a geosynchronous Earth orbit from the Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S. This is considered as a National Security Space Launch for the U.S. military. This is the fourth launch of the giant rocket system, […]

Malaria Vaccine For Children: In October 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) for the first time recommended the large-scale use of a malaria vaccine for children living in areas with moderate-to-high malaria transmission. The RTS,S/AS01 (Mosquirix) was developed by GlaxoSmithKline. Malaria kills nearly 600,000 people every year, the majority of whom are children under the […]

RISAT-2: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) RISAT (Radar Imaging Satellite)-2 satellite has made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere at the predicted impact point in the Indian Ocean near Jakarta. RISAT-2 is India’s first “eye in the sky” which keep surveillance on the country’s borders as part of anti-infiltration and anti-terrorist operations. RISAT-2: […]

Cordy Gold Nanoparticles (Cor-AuNPs) : Fungus-Powered Nanogold Particles Assam’s Bodoland University is part of collaborative research on fungus-powered biosynthesised nanogold particles that has received an international patent from Germany. Cordy gold nanoparticles (Cor-AuNPs) is the outcome of a collaborative experiment by scientists from four Indian institutions, has earned an international patent from Germany. These nanoparticles, […]