Science & Technology: Point-Wise Current-Affairs/GS Articles 2023 (Including PIB)- Download PDF

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Nov 28, 2022

🌟 New Material Discovered Which Can Convert Infrared Light to Renewable Energy (July) 

Researchers at Bengaluru՚s Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) have discovered a new material called single-crystalline scandium nitride (ScN) that can convert infrared light into renewable energy.

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Nov 24, 2022

🌟 Digital India Week 2022 (July) 

Recently, the Prime Minister has inaugurated the Digital India Week 2022 under the Digital India Programme, with the aim to strengthen Ease of Doing Business and Ease of Living. Theme: Catalysing New India՚s Techade.

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Nov 18, 2022

🌟 Bellatrix Aerospace Tested Indias First Green Satellite Propulsion 

Bellatrix Aerospace, a Bengaluru based Space Transportation company has successfully tested India՚s first privately developed Hall-effect Thruster, a highly efficient electric propulsion system for microsatellites.

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Oct 21, 2022

🌟 Iskander-M Missile System 

President Vladimir Putin has recently said that Russia will send nuclear capable short-range missile systems to its ally Belarus in the coming months. The system can also fire ground-launched cruise missiles (GLCMs) – the SSC-7 and the SSC-8.

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🌟 Anocovax: India Launches Its First COVID-19 Vaccine for Animals 

The Agriculture Ministry on Thursday unveiled India՚s first Covid-19 vaccine for animals. Developed by the Hisar-based National Research Centre on Equines, the vaccine, called Anocovax, can protect animals against the Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2.

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Sep 12, 2022

🌟 China Plans Worlds First Habitable Planet Search with Space Telescope 

Recently, State of Inequality in India Report was released by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) . Inequities in these sectors make the population more vulnerable and trigger a descent into multidimensional poverty.

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🌟 Dual Mode Locomotive Named Navdoot Developed by WCR 

The West central railway (WCR) has developed battery-operated dual-mode locomotive Navdoot. It is running between Jabalpur, Mudwara and other stations on trial basis. Railways will save thousands of liters of diesel every day.

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Sep 4, 2022

🌟 Project WARDEC: AI- Powered Wargame Centre 

The Army Training Command signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Gandhinagar-based Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU) to develop a Wargame Research and Development Centre in New Delhi.

  • The project, which has been given a prototype name WARDEC , will be a first-of-its-kind …

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🌟 Indias First Indigenous Hyperloop 

The Ministry of Railways said that it will collaborate with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) to develop an indigenous Hyperloop system. The ministry will also help to set up a Centre of Excellence for Hyperloop Technologies at IIT Madras.

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Jul 28, 2022

🌟 NHA Upgraded the ABHA Smartphone App 

The National Health Authority (NHA) under its flagship Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission scheme has launched a revamped Ayushman Bharat Health Account mobile application. The ABHA app was previously known as National Digital Health Mission՚s Health Records app.

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