Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Automatic Number Plate Reader(ANPR) Cameras: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways will install is planning to remove all the toll plazas on the national highways and rely on Automatic Number Plate Reader(ANPR) cameras. ANPR cameras will read the vehicle number plates and automatically deduct toll fees from the bank accounts of the vehicle owners. […]

Government Notifies Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022: The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change published the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022 to ensure environmentally sound management of waste batteries and replace the Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001. Batteries covered under the new rules: Electric Vehicle batteries Portable batteries Automotive batteries Industrial batteries Battery […]

India’s First Commercial SSA Observatory: India’s first commercial Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Observatory will be set up in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand. The observatory will be set up by Digantara, a Bengaluru-based space sector start-up. The observatory will be the first-of-its-kind in the region, set up to augment the start-up’s SSA capabilities. It will […]

James Webb Space Telescope: The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s latest and most powerful telescope, has captured new images of our solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter, presenting it in a never before seen light. The photographs published have captured a new view of the planet, presenting in detail its massive storms, colourful auroras, faint rings […]

Healthcare In India- Transforming Through Innovation : NASSCOM A report by NASSCOM “Healthcare in India- Transforming Through Innovation” highlights how emerging technologies and innovations are transforming Health. Status of India’s Health Sector: Increase in healthcare expenditure by a massive 73% ( from 2.73 lakh cr in 2019-20 to 4.72 lakh cr in 2021-22) New missions: […]

NAFIS: National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) has been launched by the Home Ministry to allow a country-wide search of crime-related fingerprints. NAFIS will create a unique 10-digit national fingerprint number (NFN) for each person arrested for the crime. Using the database of fingerprints, different crimes can be linked to NFN. It will “provide the […]

Women Scientists: As per the Department of Science and Technology data, the number of women scientists has gone up in over the past two decades. Findings: Women among researchers: Increased from 13. 9% (2015) to 18.7% (2018) Good number of participation of women till post-graduate level and then there is a drop at the post-doctoral […]

Tomato Flu: A new infection dubbed tomato flu, or tomato fever, has been detected in India mostly among children younger than five, according to a report in the Lancet Respiratory Journal. The infection has been named ‘tomato flu’ because of the red, painful blisters that appear on a patient’s body and gradually enlarge to the […]