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