Narsapuram Lace Craft: The Prime Minister of India praised the Narsapuram Lace Craft products made by self-help groups in Narsapur of Andhra Pradesh during his “Man-Ki-Baat” broadcast. Narsapur is situated on the bank of Godavari River in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It is believed that the women of the farming community of this region […]
Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs
Frequency Comb
Frequency Comb: Frequency combs are an important modern tool which are used to calibrate atomic clocks and has various other applications. It is a special kind of laser light whose spectrum, or set of frequencies, resembles the teeth of a comb. Frequency combs are simple and compact tools that phase coherently connect the radio frequency […]
Passenger Assistance Control Room
Passenger Assistance Control Room: To address air travellers’ grievances more promptly, the civil aviation ministry recently set up the Passenger Assistance Control Room (PACR) that functions round-the-clock to resolve the issues. It was launched by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India. It is aimed at significantly improving the promptness and effectiveness of addressing […]
Gas Hydrates
Gas Hydrates: A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the deepest gas hydrate cold seep on record, and it happens to be teeming with animal life. Gas hydrates are ice-like crystalline structures that form when a low-density gas, like […]
Legionnaires’ Disease
Legionnaires’ Disease: A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak has prompted a health alert in Sydney’s central business district recently, with authorities urging people to remain vigilant for symptoms. It is a severe form of a lung infection (pneumonia) caused by a bacterium known as legionella. The disease got its name when a group of people at an […]
Magnetic levitation technology
Magnetic levitation technology: Chinese scientists have achieved a milestone in magnetic levitation (Maglev) technology by successfully propelling a one-tonne a one-tonne vehicle to 700 kilometers per hour in just two seconds. It is a transportation technology which uses electromagnets to lift, guide and propel trains without wheels, allowing the cars to levitate slightly above the […]
PathGennie Software for Fast-Tracking Drug Discovery
PathGennie Software for Fast-Tracking Drug Discovery: The Ministry of Science and Technology has developed PathGennie, a new open-source computational software that significantly accelerates drug discovery by accurately simulating drug–protein unbinding.PathGennie is an open-source computational framework designed to efficiently simulate rare molecular events, especially drug unbinding from protein targets, without introducing artificial distortions. It helps predict […]
National Technology Readiness Assessment Framework (NTRAF)
National Technology Readiness Assessment Framework (NTRAF): The Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India has unveiled the National Technology Readiness Assessment Framework (NTRAF) to create a uniform, evidence-based system for assessing technology maturity across India’s R&D ecosystem.The National Technology Readiness Assessment Framework (NTRAF) is a standardised, objective framework to assess the maturity of technologies […]
Plasser’s Quick Relaying System
Plasser’s Quick Relaying System: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has achieved a major milestone in mechanised track renewal by recording its highest-ever single-day output of 1,033 track metres using Plasser’s Quick Relaying System. It is a modern semi-mechanized system automatic machine used for quick railway track replacement. It aims to speed up track renewal while […]
Anopheles stephensi
Anopheles stephensi: Urban malaria, driven largely by the spread of invasive vector Anopheles stephensi in metropolitan areas like Delhi, has emerged as a national concern threatening India’s goal of eliminating the mosquito-borne disease by 2030, according to the Health Ministry’s recently released Malaria Elimination Technical Report, 2025 It is an invasive mosquito species originating from […]
