Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh on July 30 released Read More …
Category: PRELIMS TERMINOLOGY
Biotech-PRIDE Guidelines
What is a Gigafactory?
A Gigafactory is a gigantic battery production facility that brings multiple companies and component makers Read More …
Steps taken for the Cyber Safety of Women and Children
National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal: The Government has launched the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal Read More …
What is Monkey B virus?
China has reported its first human infection with Monkey B Virus (BV) and subsequent death, Read More …
What is Karman Line?
On July 11, British businessman Richard Branson and five crewmates from Virgin Galactic made their Read More …
What is Mekedatu dam project
Why in the news? Recently, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said that his government would Read More …
Ministry of Education launches NIPUN Bharat Mission
The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education launched National Initiative for Proficiency in Read More …
What is National Judicial Infrastructure Corporation?
The Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana recently wrote to the Law Minister Read More …
LiDAR based survey of forest areas in ten states
Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar on June 25 released the Read More …
What is gain-of-function research?
According to media reports, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was said to have conducted gain-of-function Read More …
What are the grounds on which an election result can be challenged?
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has filed an election petition in the Calcutta High Court challenging the Read More …
New Shephard Rocket System
The New Shephard is Blue Origin’s-a Jeff Bezos’s space company, rocket system meant to take Read More …
Bharitalasuchus tapani and Yerrapalli Formation
An international team of researchers has thrown light on a carnivorous reptile that lived 240 Read More …
I-STEM and COMSOL collaboration
For the first time in the country, through the I-STEM portal academic users in India Read More …
CHIME Project assembled the largest collection of fast radio bursts
Scientists with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Collaboration have assembled the largest collection Read More …
CIBER-2 to count number of stars in the Universe
A NASA-funded rocket’s launch window will open at the White Sands Missile Range in New Read More …
Biological E’s Corbevax vaccine
Government of India has placed an advance order to block 300 million doses of a new Covid-19 vaccine, Corbevax, from Read More …
Indian Scientists developed nanorods-based oxygen sensor
Indian Scientists have developed a nanorods-based oxygen sensor which works at room temperature with assistance of Read More …
What is China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST)?
China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) or “artificial sun” set a new record after it Read More …
Kedar Nath Singh case and Sedition
The Supreme Court on June 3, 2021 quashed the sedition case registered against journalist Vinod Dua in Read More …
NASA announces DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions to Venus
GS TIMES STAFF NASA has selected two new missions DAVINCI+ and VERITAS to Venus, Earth’s nearest Read More …
IIT Ropar develops AmbiTag
Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar (IIT Ropar) in Punjab has developed a first-of-its-kind IoT device Read More …
New Map of Local Dark Matter
A team of astrophysicists has created a new dark-matter distribution map in the ‘local sheet’ Read More …
How cyclone “Yaas” was named?
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has said it is very likely the cyclone “Yaas” to move Read More …
A new point-of-care test for Kyasanur forest disease
A new point-of-care test has been found to be highly sensitive in the rapid diagnosis Read More …