Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

India’s First Water-Neutral Railway Depot: Kankaria Coaching Depot in Ahmedabad has become India’s first ‘water-neutral’ railway depot by recycling wastewater used in coach washing and maintenance.The Kankaria Coaching Depot in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, is the first railway depot in India to achieve water neutrality by treating and reusing wastewater generated during routine railway coach cleaning and […]

Claude Mythos: Anthropic has unveiled a preview of Claude Mythos, its most advanced AI system to date, which is capable of autonomously identifying critical software vulnerabilities.Claude Mythos is a next-generation frontier AI model designed with advanced reasoning, coding, and technical problem-solving capabilities that far exceed previous flagship systems.It is specifically engineered to analyze massive, complex […]

Memristor: Researchers from the University of Cambridge have reported a new kind of brain-inspired nanodevice, a hafnium-oxide memristor that could dramatically cut artificial intelligence’s (AI) energy use. Memristor’ is a combination of ‘memory’ and ‘resistor’. It is an electronic component whose resistance depends on the history of current flow, allowing it to “remember” past electrical […]

Biomass-based Improved Cookstoves (ICS): Recently, amid the LPG supply crisis, the relevance of modern biomass-based Improved Cookstoves (ICS) has come into focus, especially as many rural households shift back to firewood, raising concerns about cleaner cooking alternatives. Improved Cookstoves (ICS) are advanced biomass stoves designed to improve combustion efficiency and reduce emissions compared to traditional […]

First Semiconductor Fab in India:   India has officially notified the establishment of the country’s 1st semiconductor fabrication plant within a new Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Dholera, Gujarat, marking a significant leap forward in India’s electronics and IT manufacturing ecosystem. First Semiconductor Fab in India: The SEZ is dedicated to Electronic Hardware, Software, IT/ITES, […]

CAFE-III norms: The Indian government and the automobile industry reached a broad consensus on the upcoming CAFE-III (Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency Phase III). CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency) norms are government-mandated standards that regulate the weighted average fuel consumption and CO₂ emissions of an automaker’s entire fleet, rather than individual models. Established By: The Bureau […]

Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month: April marks Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month, highlighting the importance of early diagnosis and timely treatment to improve quality of life.Parkinson’s Europe founded World Parkinson’s Day in April 1997 with support from the World Health Organisation to mark the birthday of James Parkinson, who first described the disease in 1817.Parkinson’s disease is […]

IVF in Vegetative State: The Delhi High Court upheld a woman’s right to continue In-vitro Fertilization (IVF) with an Indian Army soldier in a vegetative state (disorder of consciousness), holding that his prior consent remains valid despite his current medical condition.The soldier’s wife approached the court to resume the IVF treatment, invoking her right to […]

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: The Maharashtra state government recently informed the Bombay High Court that it is yet to frame a policy to deal with Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE), an extremely rare but fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting children that has a fatality rate of 95%. SSPE, also known as Dawson disease, is a progressive, disabling, and […]

CAR-T Cell Therapy: For the first time, scientists have used a cutting-edge cell therapy called CAR-T to treat a patient with three different life-threatening autoimmune diseases that had resisted years of treatment. CAR T-cell therapy, or chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, is an advanced form of immunotherapy used to treat certain types of cancer by […]