Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Standard Essential Patents: Challenges For India’s Telecom Manufacturing Sector The judiciary’s involvement in standard essential patents (SEPs) poses challenges for India’s telecom manufacturing sector. Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) are patents that cover technologies adopted as industry standards, crucial for ensuring interoperability among different products and systems. These patents are essential for implementing a particular standard, […]

Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) Technology: A Rs 60,000 crore contract to modernize the Indian Navy submarine fleet to build six stealth submarines equipped with Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) technology has started. With the emergence of submarines, there was a problem finding satisfactory forms of propulsion underwater. Traditional diesel-electric submarines need to surface frequently to charge […]

Integrated Pensioners Portal: The government’s Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare recently started the Integrated Pensioners’ Portal in collaboration with Bank of India. Integrated Pensioners’ Portal is specifically designed to ensure complete digitization of the pension processing and payment system. It combines the pension processing and payment services of five banks (Bank of India, State […]

Boeing Starliner: An Atlas V rocket is set to lift off with a team of two veteran astronauts sitting inside a crew capsule called Starliner, built by Boeing. Starliner is a spacecraft that transports astronauts into space after being launched there by a rocket. It consists of a crew capsule and a service module. The […]

Paliyar Tribes : Demand A recent research carried out on ‘Paliyar Tribals in Kodaikanal and Theni areas’ urged the State government to take necessary and immediate steps to uplift the Paliyar tribes as well as the other such Adivasi communities. Paliyar Tribe has been derived from the word ‘Palaniyan’ , which in Tamil language means […]

Artificial General Intelligence: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, expressed his commitment to invest billions of dollars towards the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Artificial General Intelligence refers to a machine or a software that can perform any intellectual task that a human can do. This includes reasoning, common sense, abstract thinking, background knowledge, transfer […]

Standard Essential Patents: There is a concern over the manner in which certain technology companies are wielding ‘standard essential patents’ (SEP) against the telecom manufacturing sector in India. Standard Essential Patent (SEP) is a patent granted for a technological invention which is essential for the implementation and working of a standard. Patents which are essential […]

H5N1 Outbreak: The H5N1 outbreak has highlighted critical vulnerabilities in the industrial livestock sector, underlining the imperative for a comprehensive reassessment of animal welfare within India’s environmental and legal frameworks. This outbreak reinforces the One Health principle, which integrates public health, ecosystem health, and biodiversity conservation. Regular outbreaks of Avian Influenza (bird flu) disrupt production, […]

Conflict Minerals: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has accused Apple of using conflict minerals. The DRC accuses Apple of purchasing minerals that have been smuggled out of the country into neighbouring Rwanda. These minerals are then integrated into Apple’s global technology supply chain, where their origin is allegedly obscured. Conflict minerals, also known […]