Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Vertical Launch Short Range Surface To Air Missile (VL-SRSAM): Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) was successfully flight-tested by Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy from an Indian Naval Ship at Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on June 24, 2022. The VL-SRSAM, a […]

High-Grade Lithium Discovered In Nigeria: High-grade Lithium has been discovered in Nigeria. Greenbushes mine in Western Australia is the largest hard-rock Lithium mine in the world. The largest importers of lithium are South Korea, China, Japan, US and Belgium. Lithium is an element and in nature tends to concentrate sufficiently in the two minerals, spodumene […]

Uranium Deposit In Rajasthan: Huge reserves of uranium was found at Rohil (Khandela Tehsil) in Sikar district, which is over 120 km from the state capital Jaipur. After Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan is the third state where uranium which is considered one of the rare minerals in the world — has been found. The […]

Vertical Launch Short Range Surface To Air Missile: Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) was successfully flight-tested by Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy from an Indian Naval Ship at Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. VL-SRSAM has been designed and developed jointly by […]

Draft Guidelines To Regulate Child Participation In The Entertainment Industry: The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has published draft Guidelines to Regulate Child Protection within the Entertainment Industry. The “Guidelines to Regulate Child Participation in the Entertainment Industry” were issued by the Commission in 2011. The new draft increases the scope […]

Open Network For Digital Commerce: The government has launched the pilot phase of Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) with an aim to “democratise” the country’s fast growing digital e-commerce space that is currently dominated by the two U.S.-headquartered firms — Amazon and Walmart. ONDC is a freely accessible government-backed platform that aims to democratise […]

Aircraft Carrier Fujian : China In June 2022, China launched its third aircraft carrier named ‘Fujian’, the country’s most advanced as well as the first “fully domestically built” naval vessel, as an aggressive Beijing sought to project its naval power in the strategic Indo-Pacific region. Fujian is the name of China’s eastern coastal province of […]

Rise In Heart Attacks: India’s financial capital Mumbai witnessed a six-fold rise in deaths related to heart attacks in the first six months of 2021 when the city was under the grip of the second wave of Covid-19. Reason: Post-Covid development of thrombosis: SARS-Cov-2 damages the heart and blood vessels in infected patients which leads […]

Black Death: In the journal Nature in June 2022, researchers have claimed that the Black Death one of the deadliest epidemics in the history of humankind originated in modern day northern Kyrgyzstan around 1338-1339 nearly 7-8 years before it ravaged large parts of the world. The term Black Death refers to the bubonic plague that […]