Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

GSLV-F10 Launch And EOS-03 Satellite: The launch of earth observation satellite EOS-03 onboard GSLV-F10 was unsuccessful recently because of an anomaly in the rocket’s cryogenic upper stage. GSLV-F10 was ISRO’s eighth flight with indigenous cryo, 14th GSLV flight and 79th launch from Sriharikota. EOS-3 was the first state-of-art agile Earth Observation Satellite which would have […]

Poly Network: Hackers pulled off the biggest ever cryptocurrency heist, stealing $613 million in digital coins from token-swapping platform Poly Network, only to return $260 million worth of tokens less than 24 hours later Poly Network is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions with a focus on allowing users to transfer or […]

GSLV-F10/EOS-03: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s second mission of the year — to place an earth observation satellite by a GSLV rocket — faced a setback as it could not be accomplished fully due to performance anomaly in the cryogenic stage of the rocket. The GSLV-F10/EOS-03 rocket successfully lifted off from the second launch pad […]

NASA’s Perseverance rover: NASA’s Perseverance rover is exploring the Jezero Crater on Mars and attempting to collect its first rock samples. However, no rock samples were collected during the first attempt. About Perseverance Rover: It was launched in 2020 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V. It carried a unique instrument, MOXIE or Mars Oxygen […]

Marburg Virus:   West Africa’s first case of the extremely contagious and deadly Marburg virus was confirmed in Guinea. Its first case was first identified just two months after the country was declared free of Ebola. Both the Marburg case and this year’s Ebola cases were detected in Guinea’s Gueckedou district. The first cases of […]

India Internet Governance Forum (IIGF) -2021: Anil Kumar Jain, the CEO, National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), Ministry of Electronics & IT and the Chairman of Coordination Committee, India Internet Governance Forum 2021 (IGF), announced the launch of India Internet Governance Forum (IIGF) -2021. The Forum will act as the platform for various stakeholders to […]

Bio-Bank Of The World In Ayurveda Union Ayush Minister assured all help for establishing the first Bio-Bank of the world in Ayurveda at All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA). AIIA is a public Ayurveda medicine and research institution located in New Delhi. It was established in 2015. It is an autonomous institute under the Ministry […]

South Africa Grants Patent To An Artificial Intelligence System: South Africa, first time in the world, has granted a patent to an ‘artificial intelligence system’ relating to a “food container based on fractal geometry” innovation. The innovation involves interlocking food containers that are easy for robots to grasp and stack. The patent has been given […]

ISRO Is Set To Launch A Bhutanese Satellite: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is set to launch a Bhutanese satellite in December this year. The development of the INS-2B satellite of Bhutan is being underway by four Bhutanese engineers who were trained at ISRO’s UR Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru from December 28 to February […]

The New Information Technology (IT) Rules: On February 25, the Centre framed the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021, in the exercise of powers under section 87 (2) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and in supersession of the earlier Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines) Rules 2011, which will come into […]