Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Niobium: The Union Cabinet recently approved royalty rates in respect of three critical and strategic minerals, namely, lithium, niobium, and Rare Earth Elements. Niobium is a rare, soft, malleable, ductile, gray-white metal. It has a body-cantered cubic crystalline structure. It must be placed in a protective atmosphere when processed at even moderate temperatures because it […]

India’s Self-Declaration Of Freedom From Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) has approved India’s self-declaration of freedom from Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in specific poultry compartments. This is a significant development for India’s poultry industry and reflects the country’s commitment to maintaining high animal health and biosecurity standards. Compartmentalization, […]

Apna Chandrayaan Web Portal: The Union Minister for Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, unveiled a web portal named ‘Apna Chandrayaan.’ This web portal, developed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) under the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education, aims to provide activity-based support materials […]

Psyche Mission : Launched NASA has launched a spacecraft called ‘Psyche’ on a six-year mission to study a unique metal-rich asteroid also named ‘Psyche.’ This asteroid orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. The primary goal of the Psyche mission is to explore the iron core, a previously unexplored aspect of planet formation For the […]

India’s First CAR-T Cell Therapy Approved: India’s Drug Controller General (DCGI) has granted market authorization for CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T) cell therapy developed by ImmunoACT, a spin-off company from IIT-Bombay. This ground-breaking treatment, known as NexCAR19, is now approved for use in cases of relapsed-refractory B-cell lymphoma and leukaemia. The therapy’s market authorization follows extensive […]

Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) Network: The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology launched the state-of-the-art National Survey network of Continuously Operating Reference Stations” (CORS). It is capable of precise Location based services, which are capable of providing centimetre level positioning services in real-time These stations will be operated by the Survey […]

Deception Island : Picture By NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently posted a birds-eye-view picture of Deception island on its Instagram handle. Deception Island is part of a line of islands called the South Shetland Islands, lying northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is an active volcano. It was formed by a […]

Rasmussen’s Encephalitis: The special surgery operation was performed by doctors at Loma Linda University Health in California by switching off half of the brain of an ailing girl in order to save her life who was suffering from Rasmussen’s encephalitis . Rasmussen’s encephalitis is a very rare, chronic inflammatory neurological disease that usually affects only […]

Bronze Diabetes: Health experts revealed all about Hemochromatosis or ‘bronze diabetes’. It is an inherited condition where iron levels in the body slowly build up over many years. This health condition is primarily classified into two types: Hereditary hemochromatosis: It is driven by a mutation in the HFE gene, resulting in individuals being homozygous for […]