Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

AstroSat : Completed A Decade India’s first dedicated Space Astronomy Observatory, AstroSat completed a decade of operations. AstroSat is the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission. It was launched by PSLV-C30 (XL) rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on September 28, 2015. The minimum useful life of the AstroSat mission was around 5 years […]

BSNL’s Swadeshi 4G Network Stack: Prime Minister of India launched BSNL’s fully indigenous 4G network stack and commissioned ~98,000 mobile towers. This makes India the fifth country globally to build and deploy its own telecom stack, reinforcing the Aatmanirbhar Bharat vision.It is India’s first fully indigenous 4G telecom stack, developed under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat mission.It […]

Radar-Mounted Drones for Surveillance: The Border Security Force (BSF), in collaboration with ISRO, is developing radar-mounted drones to enhance surveillance along India’s western and eastern borders.Radar-mounted drones are unmanned aerial systems equipped with compact radars capable of monitoring border areas remotely without crossing international boundaries. Aim is To strengthen border security by providing persistent, high-accuracy […]

Nightmare Bacteria: According to scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drug-resistant ‘nightmare bacteria’, driven by the NDM gene, are spreading faster than ever in the United States. Nightmare Bacteria is used to describe Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). This group of bacteria, which includes Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli (E. coli), has […]

HSBC and IBM announced the world’s first quantum-enabled algorithmic bond trading trial.: It Is the trial is the world’s first-known empirical evidence of using a hybrid quantum-classical computing approach to solve a real-world problem in algorithmic bond trading. It involved HSBC and IBM, using real, production-scale trading data from the European corporate bond market. The […]

2G Ethanol: India allowed the export of 2G ethanol, with mandatory export licenses and feedstock certificates.2G (Second-Generation) ethanol is an advanced biofuel made from non-food, lignocellulosic biomass such as agricultural residues, forestry waste, woody biomass, algae, and municipal solid waste. Unlike 1G ethanol (from edible crops like sugarcane, maize), 2G uses waste materials, ensuring food […]

India’s First EV Truck Fleet Flagged Off at JNPA: India’s first fleet of electric heavy-duty trucks with swappable batteries was launched at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) on September 25, 2025. The fleet was flagged off by Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal, at Nhava Sheva Distribution Terminal, marking a […]

Tirumala Gets India’s First AI-Based Command Centre for Pilgrims: Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has launched India’s first AI-powered Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) at Tirumala. The centre, inaugurated by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on September 25, 2025, aims to revolutionize the way pilgrim traffic, safety, and darshan management are handled at […]

India Nominates IIT-Madras as UN AI Centre of Excellence: India has taken a significant step toward global leadership in Artificial Intelligence (AI) by nominating the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-Madras) as a UN Centre of Excellence (CoE) for AI. The nomination, made by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), was announced at […]

Perovskite Solar Cells: New Study Swedish scientists at Chalmers University of Technology have used AI-enhanced simulations to solve the long-standing puzzle of halide perovskite instability. A Perovskite Solar Cell (PSC) is a type of thin-film photovoltaic device that uses perovskite-structured compounds (ABX₃) as the light-absorbing active layer. Perovskite Material Named after the mineral Calcium Titanium […]