Vicarious Liability: Whats App The Kerala High Court on February 23 said admins of WhatsApp groups are not liable for objectionable posts made by group members. The court examined whether the admin, the petitioner in the case, has vicarious liability or can be held liable for the act of the social media group member. […]
Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs
CORBEVAX
CORBEVAX: India’s first indigenously developed Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) protein sub-unit vaccine for COVID-19, CORBEVAX, developed by Biological E Limited, has received approval for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)for 12-18 years age group. CORBEVAXTM is a 2-dose vaccine administered intramuscularly and can be stored at 2ºC to […]
P-8I Patrol Aircraft
P-8I Patrol Aircraft: Aircraft manufacturer Boeing has delivered the 12th P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft to the Indian Navy. This completes the follow-on clause for four additional P-8I aircraft contracted in 2016. P-8I Aircraft is a long-range Maritime Reconnaissance and Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft. It is an Indian variant of the P-8A Poseidon aircraft that […]
Data Accessibility Policy: Highlights
Data Accessibility Policy: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has come out with a draft Data Accessibility and Use policy. Highlights of the policy: The policy proposes to improve data availability, quality and use in line with the decade’s current and emerging technology demands. Any data sharing shall happen within the legal […]
AI Supercomputer of META
Meta To Build An AI Supercomputer: Meta announced in January 2022 that it is building an AI supercomputer, the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC). Meta considers the RSC as a powerful supercomputer capable of quintillions of operations per second. It can perform tasks like translating text between languages and help identify potentially harmful content on […]
Fast Radio Burst (FRB)
Fast Radio Burst (FRB): The Astronomers of National Center of Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) in Pune and the University of California in the US have used the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) to map the distribution of atomic hydrogen gas from the host galaxy of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) for the first time. The […]
Detection of Active Leprosy Cases in India
What Is Leprosy? According to the latest report by the Leprosy Mission Trust India, the Covid-19 pandemic and its ensuing recommendations on social distancing and lockdowns caused a fall of 62.5% in the detection of active leprosy cases between April and September 2020 in four States — Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. […]
NASA’s Perseverance Rover: 1 Year Completed
NASA’s Perseverance Rover: Nasa’s Perseverance rover has completed a full Earth year on Mars after its successful landing on February 19, 2021. During this period on the Red Planet, the rover has: Collected the first rock cores from another planet. Served as a base station for Ingenuity helicopter. Extracted oxygen from thin Martian air. […]
Dark Energy: New Observations
Dark Energy: Astronomical observations suggest that a significant part of the universe is made up of dark matter which interacts with the rest of the universe only through the gravitational pull. Many large lab experiments have tried to detect elementary particles that could be candidates for dark matter. However, such dark matter particles have […]
Bent-Toed Gecko
What Are Geckos? A team of herpetologists have recorded a new species of bent-toed gecko from a wooded part of the Umroi Military Station in Meghalaya. Its scientific name is Crytodactylus exercitus and its English name is Indian Army’s bent-toed gecko. Further, another new bent-toed gecko, the Cyrtodactylus siahaensis named after Mizoram’s Siaha district where […]
