Kala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a tropical disease characterised by irregular fever, weight loss, anaemia and swelling of the spleen and l… Continue Reading
The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has told the Supreme Court to make its code of ethics against airing malicious, biased and regressive content … Continue Reading
As per the data provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR) National Cancer… Continue Reading
The DRDO conducted a flight test of the hypersonic technology demonstrator vehicle (HSTDV) off Odisha’s coast. This HSTDV was able to fly at a hy… Continue Reading
The brain size and shape differ across ages, and across regions and ethnicities, and even within a population. While some countries have their own … Continue Reading
A report on the journey of the NSTEDB in catalyzing innovation, entrepreneurship, and incubation was launched by the Secretary, Department of Science … Continue Reading
The discovery was made by a team of astronomers led by Dr Kanak Saha from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) Pune. … Continue Reading
Pulikkali, or tiger dance will go online on the fourth day of Onam. Pulikkali: Pulikkali, or tiger dance, is a colourful part of Onam celebratio… Continue Reading
Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) It is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre… Continue Reading
NEWS: Utilization of excess sugarcane for ethanol production to improve the viability of the sugar industry. Details: The government has taken … Continue Reading
NEWS: Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter has captured the Moon images of “Sarabhai” Crater – ISRO About Sarabhai Crater: Named after eminent Indian sc… Continue Reading
E-Sanjeevani is a platform-independent, browser-based application facilitating both doctor-to-doctor and patient-to-doctor tele-consultations. NEWS… Continue Reading
Quick Tips: Have hot/warm water entire day .… Continue Reading
Context: Prakash Javadekar hails KURMA mobile app as unique tool for conservation of Indian Turtles. Details: *Union Minister of Environment, Fo… Continue Reading
Context:PM SVANidhi app launched to provide micro-credit facility for street vendors at their door steps. Details: *A mobile application of PM S… Continue Reading
Context: Bharat Dynamics Limited signs LAToT of Akash Missile Weapon System with DRDO. Details: *Bharat Dynamics Limited signed Licence Agreeme… Continue Reading
Context: DRDO to establish a research cell at IIT-H to meet the future defence technological requirements . Details: *Defence Research and Devel… Continue Reading
Context:child excavated as part of Keeladi’s 6th phase excavation. Details: *Skeletal remains of a child were excavated from Konthagai village… Continue Reading
Context:A performance of the variant of Yakshagana theatre was streamed live on social media. Details: *The traditional art of ‘talamaddale’… Continue Reading
context: Can a COVID-19 vaccine be developed soon? Details: *A vaccine could be a weakened biological or synthetic agent administered to humans… Continue Reading
Context: Persistent global transmission of chikungunya from India. Details: *The resurgence of chikungunya virus in India in 2005, the Indian su… Continue Reading
Context: Participant enrolment to hydroxychloroquine arm was stopped with immediate effect. Details: *The RECOVERY trial, a large randomised con… Continue Reading
Details: The results were published in the Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders. In all, 254 districts have a “very high level” of diabete… Continue Reading
Details: NCRA scientists discovered tiny radio flashes: While we have not seen the magnetic explosions, these weak radio flashes that we have di… Continue Reading
Details: The late Patamakki Rathnakar, former MLA of Tirthahalli who had requested the State government to conduct research over the issue, had sai… Continue Reading
Details: A seven-member Russian technocrat team reached the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site on Wednesday to inspect the ‘unusual vibrations… Continue Reading
Details: Rajesh Gokhle, Faculty, National Institute of Immunology and former head of the CSIR-Insitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, who has… Continue Reading
Details: “We are testing two N gene regions, so we need to recalibrate the machine to test both of them independently as a common cut-off wasn’… Continue Reading
Details: They were found in the latest study of one of a pair of binary brown dwarfs. A group of international astrophysicists have identified c… Continue Reading
Details: China on Tuesday successfully launched a new rocket and prototype spacecraft, state media said, in a major test of the country’s ambitio… Continue Reading
Details: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed an ultra violet (UV) disinfection tower for rapid and chemical-free… Continue Reading
Details: This is the vaccine candidate to be used in Phase 1 clinical trial at the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility in Oxford, Britain, April 2, … Continue Reading
Details: The antibody is capable of binding with the spike protein found on the outer layer of the virus. An electrical signal is generated when th… Continue Reading
Details: The Maha Kumbh Mela is organised once in 12 years, and the last time the event was held in 2010, about 10 million had reportedly congregat… Continue Reading
Details: The merging entities were about 30 and 8 times the Sun’s mass: The event, dubbed GW190412, was detected nearly a year ago, and this i… Continue Reading
Details: MGR Medical University has developed a vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 through ‘reverse vaccinology’, the institution’s Vice-Ch… Continue Reading
Details: Electron microscope image of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Excitement about treating the new coronavirus with malaria drugs is rai… Continue Reading
Details: Manipur’s tradition of making rice beer, the practice of tying turbans in Rajasthan and several different dances, forms of music and fes… Continue Reading
Details: The Chitra GeneLAMP-N, made by scientists at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology , Thiruvananthapuram, h… Continue Reading
Details: “The mobile application has been customised to collect COVID-19 specific geospatial datasets through community engagement to augment the… Continue Reading
Details: The second is a messenger RNA vaccine developed by Moderna and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In RNA vaccines, the… Continue Reading
Details: Scientists have mapped out human proteins that interact with those of the virus In a breathtaking feat, nearly a hundred scientists fro… Continue Reading
Details: The researchers have identified 31 candidate molecules to target the main protease which helps the virus replicate Using new methods, t… Continue Reading
Details: The idea is that without these incentives, companies would find it difficult to recoup their R&D costs given the small number of people su… Continue Reading
Details: The NCBS was studying information on the sequences the ICMR had released. You can’t bottle up a virus like this and so, while we can’t… Continue Reading
Details: Promising future: Beyond these applications, some of the deepest foundational questions in physics and computer science are being driv… Continue Reading
Details: The Ministry of Defence on Thursday signed a Rs.880-crore contract with the Israeli Weapon Industries for 16,479 Light Machine Guns . “T… Continue Reading
News: We are currently at the minimum of one such cycle. Amidst claims that the Sun would “go silent” and not give out sunspots for an extended… Continue Reading
About: Raman Research Institute, set up by C.V. Raman, who passed away 45 years ago, remains testimony to his love for science and Bengaluru. Perch… Continue Reading
Details: • Chromosomes- The human body is made up of cells, and in the centre of each cell is the nucleus. Chromosomes, which are located inside … Continue Reading
News: A small study involving 65 stool samples taken from patients from a single hospital in Chennai found 51% of them harbouring colistin-resistan… Continue Reading
Royal Bengal Tiger The Bengal tiger is found primarily in India with smaller populations in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Myanmar and is the… Continue Reading
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic across the world, an advisory was issued by the Ministry of AYUSH advocating homeopathic, Unani and ayurvedic medications f… Continue Reading
The virus has now infected 83,000 globally, with cases being confirmed in around 50 countries. More than 2,800 deaths have been reported. Six count… Continue Reading
Details: The architects of India believed that for India to prosper, investment in science and technology was essential. To provide wings to its fu… Continue Reading
Details: The architects of India believed that for India to prosper, investment in science and technology was essential. To provide wings to its fu… Continue Reading
Low expenditure on R&D: The total expenditure on R&D in India has tripled in the last decade in nominal terms. However, as a fraction of GDP, publi… Continue Reading
The first-ever 2 days long Bharat-Bangla Paryatan Utsav 2020 (Tourism Festival) was held at Ujjayanta Palace in Agartala, Tripura from February 20-21,… Continue Reading
Below is attachment related to Current Affairs of Subject: SCIENCE AND TECH Month: June 2019 to December 2019.… Continue Reading
ISRO aims to boost space surveillance in order to keep an eye on terror launchpads along the borders, check infiltration and keep an eye on China's na… Continue Reading
News: It will apparently be in a fixed spot looking over the Indian continent at all times. All Indian EOs have been placed so far in a 600-odd-km … Continue Reading
News: Live relay of surgeries from a remote hospital organised for 100 London doctors An annual surgery camp held at a remote hospital in Chikha… Continue Reading
News: Launches of some earth observation satellites advanced. Starting May, the Indian Space Research Organisation plans to send up at least eig… Continue Reading
News: The Ministry of Earth Sciences is planning a ‘decadal forecast’ system along the lines of the United Kingdom’s Met Office to ensure bet… Continue Reading
Abstract: The four Indian pilots chosen as candidate-astronauts on Monday began their 12-month training at the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut … Continue Reading
Context: Scientific study regarding bats immune system response to harmful viruses. Background: Bats serve as natural hosts for numerous viru… Continue Reading
Context: Development and commercialization of rice resistant to arsenic. Background: Arsenic poisoning: Arsenic is a naturally occurring t… Continue Reading
Details: Medaram village in Telangana is hosting the Sammakka-Sarakka Jatara, which is essentially a tribal festival. The festival is being atte… Continue Reading
Context: In spite of a few instances of breach of the intentional Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Promoting Hones (UCPMP) by pharma companies, and t… Continue Reading
News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in Parliament about the formation of a trust to oversee the construction of a Ram Temple in Ayodhya, U… Continue Reading
Mains Paper 3: Science and Tech Prelims level : Membrane-based Water Purification System Mains level : Highlights about the system • The U… Continue Reading
Mains Paper-III Prelims: Yellow Rust Disease Mains: Yellow Rust detected in wheat crops Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (IIWBR)… Continue Reading
Context: The Delhi High Court has observed that use of pesticides and chemicals to ripen fruits amounts to poisoning the consumer, while noting th… Continue Reading
News: • Nagoba Jatara is a tribal festival held in Keslapur village, Inderavelly Mandal Adilabad district, Telangana, India. • It is the se… Continue Reading
News: • Indian Railways has commissioned the country’s first governmental waste to energy plant in Mancheswar Carriage Repair workshop at Bhuba… Continue Reading
Context: Cabinet approves official amendments in the National Commission for Homoeopathy Bill, 2019. Details: The Union Cabinet has given its… Continue Reading
News: On February 1, 2020, President Ram Nath Kovind will inaugurate the 34th Surajkund International Crafts Fair. The fair is being organized by t… Continue Reading
News: • Scientists have discovered the oldest solid material ever found on the Earth, in the form of stardust trapped inside a meteorite that cra… Continue Reading
News: • After nearly 16 years of exploring the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope will be switched off permanently on 30t… Continue Reading
News: • Union Minister of State for Department of Space inaugurated the ‘National Workshop on Space based Information Support for Decentralised… Continue Reading
• As part of the commemoration of Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) has dedicated an entire issue of it… Continue Reading
News: • Bharat Parv, 2020 is being celebrated from 26th to 31st January, 2020 in front of Red Fort at Gyan Path and Red Fort grounds. Key hig… Continue Reading
• New archaeon was discovered by Indian scientists in Sambhar Salt Lake of Rajasthan • Archaea are a primitive group of microorganisms that thriv… Continue Reading
• For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the voice of an ancient human being, that of a 3000-year-old Egyptian mummy named Nesyamun (as p… Continue Reading
• A new snake eel species residing in the Bay of Bengal has been discovered and documented this month (January) by the Estuarine Biology Regional Ce… Continue Reading
• Thai Amavasai was observed throughout Tamil Nadu with devotion and traditional rites on January 24. About: • Thai Amavasai is the first N… Continue Reading
The story so far: On the afternoon of May 1, 2018, Jeff Bezos received a message on WhatsApp from an account belonging to Saudi Arabia’s crown pr… Continue Reading
News: The results recently published in The Lancet shows that kangaroo mother care improved survival by 30% and 25%, in babies till 28 days and six… Continue Reading
For the first time, the study sheds light into why the FDA-approved drugs against androgen signalling to treat prostate cancer can backfire after init… Continue Reading
A study of fruits and vegetables grown in the Nilgiris has found that some of the produce might be harbouring high levels of pesticide, beyond what is… Continue Reading
In the United States while over 60% of BS, MS and PhD degrees in biological and chemical sciences are from women, only 25-30% of them do computer scie… Continue Reading
Nehru’s legacy is not so weak that it would be threatened by the celebration of Indian democracy The NMML is an autonomous body with the PM as it… Continue Reading
Abstract: A consortium of scientists, including some from India, have mapped the genome of the Indian Cobra, among the most poisonous snakes in the… Continue Reading
Abstract: In Goa, the celebration is known by its Portuguese name ‘Festa dos Reis’, and in parts of Kerala by its Syriac name ‘Denha’. I… Continue Reading
Abstract: India is planning to setup a new satellite series called THE INDIAN DRSS ( Data Relay satellite System). News: In the coming ye… Continue Reading
Context The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) is organizing the fifth edition of the Asia Pacific Drosophila Research Conf… Continue Reading
Context The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is to set up a world-class facility for the training of astronauts in Challakere in Chitradu… Continue Reading
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have developed a new approach to anti-counterfeiting measures. Adding a layer of c… Continue Reading
After years of slow and somewhat tentative action to acknowledge, understand and act on the challenge of undernutrition, India’s National Nutrition … Continue Reading
Pneumococcal vaccine developed by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India has been pre-qualified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the third w… Continue Reading
Context Prime Minister inaugurated the 107th edition of the Indian Science Congress in Bengaluru. Details The objective of the ISC is to build … Continue Reading
The Tamil Nadu government has started acquiring 2,300 acres of land in Thoothukudi district for ISRO’s second launch port. Currently, satellites … Continue Reading
Dhanu jatra or Dhanu yatra is an annual drama-based open air theatrical performance celebrated in Bargarh, Odisha. Spread across a 8km radius area aro… Continue Reading
Missions and Project Related Activities => ISRO has successfully accomplished 13 missions including 06 launch vehicle missions and 07 satellite mis… Continue Reading
News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his 'Mann ki Baat' programme of AIR, has said that ISRO is planning to launch a satellite called Aditya to s… Continue Reading
Context • Scientists from Centre for Excellence in Space Sciences (CESSI), IISER Kolkata, have successfully predicted the shape of Sun’s coron… Continue Reading
Context • Researchers from Chandigarh have identified gene biomarkers that can be used for early diagnosis of the brain tumour called glioblasto… Continue Reading
Context: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) planning its first unmanned test mission of the Gaganyaan mission. Background: Gaganya… Continue Reading
Context: The Election Commission has told the Delhi High Court that in 2005 it took a policy decision not to register any political party having a… Continue Reading
The Konda Reddi's or Hill Reddi's are a designated Scheduled Tribe in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and neighboring states of Odisha, Tamil Nadu.… Continue Reading
NEWS A white yellow star in Sextans constellation and its Jupiter-like exoplanets, which were hitherto named HD 86081 and 86081b, will now have Ind… Continue Reading