Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Sinopharm COVID-19 Vaccine: The World Health Organization approved the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use — the first Chinese jab to receive the WHO’s green light. The UN health agency signed off on the two-dose vaccine, which is already being deployed in dozens of countries around the world. The WHO has already given emergency use […]

Debris From A Chinese Rocket Disintegrated Over The Indian Ocean: Debris from a Chinese rocket made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean, with remnants falling at a location to the west of Maldives. The debris came from the upper stage of a Long March 5Brocket– China’s largest– that […]

Mucormycosis Or Black Fungus: A number of Covid-19 patients are developing a serious fungal infection known as Mucormycosis also called black fungus. Mucormycosis: It is a serious but rare fungal infection caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes, which is abundant in the environment. It mainly affects people who have health problems or take […]

Drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG): The DCGI has granted emergency use approval to DRDO’s 2-DG drug for treatment in moderate to severe cases of Covid-19.2-DG helps in the faster recovery of hospitalized patients and reduces supplemental oxygen dependence. The drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) has been developed by DRDO’s Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS) in collaboration […]

COVID BEEP: Union Minister of Atomic Energy, Dr Jitendra Singh recalled the launch of COVID BEEP in June 2020 to supplement the Country’s COVID infrastructure to fight the pandemic. The COVID BEEP system has been developed by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) in collaboration with IIT Hyderabad and ESIC Medical College Hyderabad. It was […]

5G Trial: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has given permissions to Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) for conducting trials for use and applications of 5G technology. This formally leaves out Chinese companies like Huawei and ZTE from the 5G race in India. About the Trials: In the initial phase, these trials will be for 6 months, […]

A report Titled ‘State Of Working India 2021: One Year Of Covid­19: A report titled ‘State of Working India 2021: One Year of Covid­19’ brought out annually by Azim Premji University’s Centre for Sustainable Employment, Bengaluru has been released. The report covers the period March 2020 to December 2020, dwells on the impact of one […]

Support For Waiving Intellectual Property (IP) Protection For Covid-19 Vaccines: The United States has announced the support for waiving Intellectual Property (IP) protection for Covid-19 vaccines. The decision is a breakthrough in India and South Africa’s attempts to get World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries to agree to such a waiver to fight the pandemic […]

5G Technology: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India approved permissions to Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) for conducting trials for use and applications of 5G technology. The applicant TSPs include Bharti Airtel Ltd., Reliance JioInfocomm Ltd., Vodafone Idea Ltd., and MTNL. The duration of the trials, at present, is for a period of 6 […]

SUTRA Model: Scientists from the IITs of Kanpur and Hyderabad have applied the ‘Susceptible, Undetected, Tested (positive), and Removed Approach’ (SUTRA) model to predict the COVID graph in India. The model uses three main parameters to predict the course of the pandemic. The first is called beta, or contact rate, which measures how many people […]