Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Sujal Gaon ID: The Union Ministry of Jal Shakti has launched Sujal Gaon ID, a unique digital identifier for mapping rural piped water supply schemes across India. Sujal Gaon ID is a scheme-based unique digital identifier assigned to each rural piped drinking water supply scheme in India. It enables digital mapping of rural water supply […]

Dimethyl Ether: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL) in collaboration with a processing engineering partner is ready to scale up the Dimethyl Ether technology to an industrial scale demonstration. It is a synthetically produced alternative to diesel for use in specially designed compression ignition diesel engines. It has a very […]

NMDC Limited has become the first mining company in India to produce 50 million tonnes: NMDC Limited has become the first mining company in India to produce 50 million tonnes (MT) of iron ore in a single financial year.NMDC Limited (formerly National Mineral Development Corporation) is a Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE).Incorporated in 1958, it […]

Van Allen Probe A: NASA’s 600 kg Van Allen Probe A satellite is falling back to Earth, raising questions about whether people on the ground should be concerned. NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission was the first mission to use two spacecraft in tandem to study Earth’s radiation belts. Originally designed for a two-year mission, the […]

India’s 1st Comprehensive Checklist of Fireflies: Scientists compiled the first-of-its-kind checklist of Indian fireflies using more than 260 years of scattered scientific records, including documentation from 1881 to 2025, identifying 92 species across 27 genera.The checklist was created to address the lack of accessible modern literature on Indian fireflies and serve as a foundational reference […]

Euthanasia: SC Allows 1st Passive Euthanasia in Harish Rana Case. The Supreme Court (SC), in Harish Rana vs Union of India Case (2026), permitted passive euthanasia by allowing withdrawal of life support, marking the first application of the 2018 Common Cause judgment recognising the right to die with dignity. The Supreme Court of India allowed […]

Peptide Therapy: The growing global interest in peptide-based therapies for treating diseases and enhancing wellness has raised both medical opportunities and safety concerns, prompting experts to call for greater caution and regulation. Peptides are short chains of amino acids, which are the fundamental building blocks of life. They are essentially smaller versions of proteins. While […]

2025 seismic code : BIS The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has withdrawn its 2025 seismic code (IS 1893) following concerns raised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). The previous standard, IS 1893 of 2016, is now back in effect. MoHUA raised serious concerns, like huge construction cost escalation, estimated at 10-15% […]

DART Mission: A groundbreaking study has revealed that NASA’s DART Mission not only altered the motion of a small asteroid within its system but also slightly changed the orbit of the entire asteroid pair around the Sun. DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) was a NASA space probe dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of […]

What is the Doomsday Fish? Two giant oarfish, rarely seen deep-sea creatures sometimes called “doomsday fish,” were recently spotted near the shore in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in an extremely rare sighting. The oarfish is commonly known as the “doomsday fish”. It is a deep-sea dweller that rarely comes near the surface. Scientific Name: Regalecus […]