Abhayam App Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy launched ABHAYAM Passenger App for the safety of women and girls traveling in cabs and auto-rickshaws. AP is the first state in the country to pass the Disha Act in…
Genetically Modified Organisms Genetically modified organisms (more commonly called GMOs) are organisms or microorganisms (i.e. plants and animals) whose genetic make-up have been manipulated by artificially inserting components of another organism. This can take the form of transgenic modification, whereby the…
EOS-01 Satellite It is an earth observation satellite. EOS-01 is nothing but another Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT) that will work together with RISAT-2B and RISAT-2BR1 launched last year. This is the first launch by the Indian Space Research Organisation since the COVID-19-induced…
CSIRs Indigen Project It was implemented by the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi and CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad. This has enabled benchmarking the scalability of genome sequencing and computational analysis at population scale…
Green Delhi App Due to deterioration of air quality in the National Capital Region with the onset of winter, the government has released a seven-point action plan to fight air pollution. The mobile application is part of the government’s action…
Arogya Setu App India launched Aarogya Setu mobile App for helping augment the efforts of limiting the spread of COVID19. Objective of enabling Bluetooth based contact tracing, mapping of likely hotspots and dissemination of relevant information about COVID19. Those who are…
Cybersecurity and Cyber Crime Cybersecurity spends in India is rising rapidly because of the massive digitization movement, especially in payments, and the case of internet use on mobile. Cybersecurity means securing cyberspace from attack and economic espionage. Cybersecurity Cyber Space:…
COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted normal life including school education. The spread pandemic has led to the closure of schools and has impacted over 240 million children of the country who are enrolled in schools. Extended closure of schools may have…
BeiDou Navigation Satellite System China successfully launched the last satellite of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). The satellite, the 55th in the family of BeiDou that means “Big Dipper” in Chinese, was successfully sent into space by a Long March-3B…