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Nanofibers stronger than steel

28 January 2021

DRDO successfully tests new generation Akash missile

28 January 2021

SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched

27 January 2021

New ant species discovered from Kerala

27 January 2021

Around 60 thousand chicks emerge from new nesting ground of lesser flamingos

25 January 2021

NASA’s TESS Mission discovers exoplanet in our galaxy older than Sun

25 January 2021

How scientists are counting elephants from space?

23 January 2021

Scientists found rice attributes to improve nitrogen use efficiency

23 January 2021

Discovery of two new giant radio galaxies offers fresh insights into the universe

22 January 2021

Pakistan tests nuclear-capable Shaheen-III ballistic missile

22 January 2021

Gold microstructure substrate with tunable wettability

21 January 2021

Curtain Raiser: Indo-French Exercise Desert Knight-21

19 January 2021

What is 5G and how prepared is India to adapt to this tech?

18 January 2021

Indigenously built, first pair of weather radars installed over Himalayas

16 January 2021

Wormholes may be lurking in the universe — and new studies are proposing ways of finding them

15 January 2021

‘The Ethics of AI: A Buddhist viewpoint’

15 January 2021

How serious is the bird flu outbreak in India, and how can it be contained?

13 January 2021

Ultra-high mobility electron gas can increase information transfer speed & data storage density in quantum devices

13 January 2021

Indian navy to coordinate second edition of largest coastal defence exercise – Sea Vigil 21.

12 January 2021

Building Digital Trust

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  • 09 January 2021
‘Ex-ante regulation for digital markets in India’

09 January 2021

War in space

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  • 08 January 2021
‘For all our sakes, building digital trust had better be the technology trend of the 2020s’

06 January 2021

Avian influenza: Strain found in samples at Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh

05 January 2021

Connecting more people: on PM WANI

05 January 2021

Dexamethasone What is Dexamethasone?

04 January 2021

BARC develops Eye Cancer therapy

02 January 2021

Made in India Akash missiles to be exported!

02 January 2021

India, Bhutan Sign Pact on Cooperation In Peaceful Uses Of Outer Space

02 January 2021

World's largest radio telescope

31 December 2020

Microplastics in molluscs

31 December 2020

‘ISRO’s DSSAM and the expectations of India’s armed forces’

31 December 2020

‘TiHAN-IIT Hyderabad’- India’s first Test bed for Autonomous Navigation Systems (Terrestrial and Aerial)

30 December 2020

Neural Network: Applications, Criticism, and the Way Forward

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  • 30 December 2020
Nanomicelles: using nanoparticles for cancer treatment

29 December 2020

Status of Nuclear Power in India

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  • 29 December 2020
Measurement of aerosols with a particle counter

28 December 2020

Chandrayaan-2 mission’s initial data released: ISRO

26 December 2020

Shigella infection fear in Kerala

25 December 2020

IFFCO gas leak: How dangerous is ammonia?

25 December 2020

Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM)

24 December 2020

How the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 quickly accumulated 23 mutations

23 December 2020

India International Science Festival-2020

22 December 2020

India looks at integrating more countries into coastal radar network

21 December 2020

Genetically modified pigs

19 December 2020

India’s Enduring Challenge of Intelligence Reforms

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  • 19 December 2020
Bio-bubbles

18 December 2020

PSLV-C50

18 December 2020

17A Ship HIMGIRI

15 December 2020

Use of fingerprints

15 December 2020

Malaria and Plasmodium ovale

12 December 2020

‘Space Security’

12 December 2020

Non Traditional Security - Disaster Risk and Disaster Management in India

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  • 12 December 2020
Pterosaurs

11 December 2020

‘Genome editing and ethical concerns’

11 December 2020

What is Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission?

10 December 2020

Ancient people may have survived desert droughts by melting ice in lava tubes

09 December 2020

Antibiotic use in cows can affect soil health, increase CO2 emissions: Study

09 December 2020

A New Digital platform 'CO-WIN' is being used for COVID-19 Vaccination Delivery

09 December 2020

‘5G countdown’

09 December 2020

How aerosol formation helps brighten clouds, balance climate

08 December 2020

A policy for robotic surgery

07 December 2020

China turns on ‘artificial sun’

05 December 2020

‘COVID-19 vaccine research raises ethical issues’

05 December 2020

China’s Chang’e 5 mission to retrieve lunar rocks

04 December 2020

Dexamethasone

04 December 2020

Managing antimicrobial resistance amid COVID-19 is a challenge

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  • 03 December 2020
Astra missile

03 December 2020

How are cyclones forecast?

01 December 2020

RT-LAMP: a new technology for detecting COVID-19

30 November 2020

‘Brain Fingerprinting technology’

30 November 2020

Brain finger-printing

28 November 2020

Sweden getting on board India’s Venus mission with payload to explore planet

26 November 2020

India becomes 4th nation to get IMO nod for navigation satellite system

25 November 2020

India successfully test-fires land-attack version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile

25 November 2020

Innovative Technology infusion for better implementation of JalJeevan Mission

23 November 2020

Feluda test kit to be made available in 8 metro cities

20 November 2020

Is there an alternative to antibiotics use in livestock?

19 November 2020

Two supercomputers from India in the TOP500 list, one in top 100

19 November 2020

T-cell immunity and COVID-19

18 November 2020

“Over the Top” (OTT) platforms came under the ambit of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

17 November 2020

QRSAM achieves direct hit on pilotless target aircraft at medium range, altitude

14 November 2020

‘Crossroads of Artificial Intelligence: Higher Education and Research in India and China’

13 November 2020

Kalvari class of submarines and its strategic significance

13 November 2020

Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine

10 November 2020

Hyperloop technology

09 November 2020

Fortified Rice

07 November 2020

Radio burst from within Milky Way may help solve cosmic mystery

06 November 2020

Bio-decompose technique

05 November 2020

Satellites to detect drug cultivation in Odisha:

04 November 2020

India is to set up fourteen more aerodromes in the country to develop sea plane tourism

02 November 2020

ISRO to launch Earth observation satellite, RISAT-2BR2 and nine other customer satellites

30 October 2020

IndiGen Program

29 October 2020

Trial run of Delhi’s buses on Hydrogen-blended CNG (HCNG) launched

23 October 2020

INS Kavaratti to be commissioned into the Indian Navy

23 October 2020

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touched asteroid Bennu

23 October 2020

COVIRAP:

23 October 2020

National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)

23 October 2020

Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) and Vessels Traffic Monitoring Systems (VTMS)

23 October 2020

Smart fence along LoC

23 October 2020

CSIR Ushered Repurposed Drugs’ portal called CuRED

23 October 2020

AnaemiaMukt Bharat Index

23 October 2020

New Space Centre by NATO

21 October 2020

India successfully test fires BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile

20 October 2020

India’s First Seaplane Project to be inaugurated on 31st October

20 October 2020

Stand-Off Anti-Tank Missile (SANT)

20 October 2020

Sputnik -V vaccine of Russia gets renewed approval for Clinical trials in India

19 October 2020

India Successfully tests indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi II missile

19 October 2020

Kilo Class submarine INS Sindhuvir delivered to Myanmar Navy

19 October 2020

Broadcast Audience Research Council:

17 October 2020

What is holographic imaging?

17 October 2020

MACS-6478 wheat variety doubles farmers’ yield

17 October 2020

What is New Shephard, the rocket system?

17 October 2020

Opposition Phenomenon (Mars)

17 October 2020

Mechanism by which bacterium Xoo interacts with rice plants uncovered

15 October 2020

Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN):

15 October 2020

Intel partners with Telanganagovt to launch applied AI research Centre

15 October 2020

MOSAiC expedition successfully completed

15 October 2020

5,000 remote villages to receive Internet using ISRO satellites

14 October 2020

Feluda test for Covid-19

13 October 2020

Raychaudhuri Equation

13 October 2020

DRDO successfully flight tests Indigenously Developed Anti Radiation Missile

13 October 2020

India formally receives the first Rafale fighter jet

12 October 2020

Cat Que virus reported from China

12 October 2020

China joins COVAX initiative for Covid-19 vaccine distribution

12 October 2020

The National Clinical Management Protocol released

11 October 2020

Flight test of supersonic missile-assisted torpedo release conducted successfully

11 October 2020

2020 Nobel Prize in physics

11 October 2020

2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

10 October 2020

Translational Health Science And Technology Institute (DBT – THSTI)

10 October 2020

UAE’s Moon Mission

10 October 2020

Shaurya missile

10 October 2020

Narco test

10 October 2020

Lantana

10 October 2020

MoU signed between the Ministry of AYUSH and Ministry of WOMEN and Child Development

10 October 2020

Arsenic-affected Habitations Increased

10 October 2020

Pakur Honey

10 October 2020

Army Static Switched Communication Network project (ASCON Phase IV Network)

10 October 2020

Graphene masks effective in deactivating two Coronavirus species.

10 October 2020

Cases of Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) were reported from the Gujarat and Maharashtra

10 October 2020

BrahMos Missile successfully tested:

09 October 2020

‘Moon May Be Rusting Along Poles, Suggest Chandrayaan-1 Images’

09 September 2020

CoViDx One

08 September 2020

‘India to be ‘leading manufacturer’ of Russia’s ‘doubtful’ trial vaccine’

08 September 2020

Two black holes merged billions of years ago

05 September 2020

Mass Spectrometry Covid-19 Test

04 September 2020

Quantum State Interferography

02 September 2020

Quantum Enabled Science and Technology (QuEST) programme

02 September 2020

World’s Largest Solar Tree

02 September 2020

Next Generation Incubation Services

01 September 2020

Sleeping sickness or African Trypanosomiasis

01 September 2020

OSCA1.3 Plant protein

01 September 2020

Africa declared free of wild polio

01 September 2020

‘Presence of mercury in birds near thermal power plants paves way for modern analysis’

31 August 2020

Wolbachia method

29 August 2020

INS Viraat to head for dismantling

29 August 2020

Biochar

29 August 2020

Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome

28 August 2020

Glanders

28 August 2020

Asteroid 2018VP1

28 August 2020

TITLE - The country’s new DNA law raises privacy concerns

27 August 2020

Gaofen-9 05

27 August 2020

National digital health mission

27 August 2020

Magnetic Hyperthermia-Mediated Cancer Therapy (MHCT)

27 August 2020

First World Solar Technology Summit

26 August 2020

Brown Dwarfs

24 August 2020

Super capacitor electrodes from waste

24 August 2020

Kala-Azar: Oral Nano Medicine

24 August 2020

Chemosynthesis

23 August 2020

Vaccine Nationalism

21 August 2020

Micro plastics

21 August 2020

D614G

21 August 2020

Thalassemia Screening and Counselling Centre

20 August 2020

Dhanwantari Rath to bring Ayurveda at doorsteps

20 August 2020

‘Tobacco behind more than a quarter of India’s cancer cases’

19 August 2020

Air Unique-quality Monitoring (AUM)

19 August 2020

T-Cell Responses

19 August 2020

Pavitrapati and Aushada tara

18 August 2020

SalivaDirect

18 August 2020

RLF-100 or Aviptadil

18 August 2020

Helium Enhanced Cool Stars

18 August 2020

Sickle Cell Diseases

18 August 2020

Salmonella bacteria

16 August 2020

Israel Successfully tested its Arrow-2 Ballistic Missile Interceptor

15 August 2020

OSOWOG

15 August 2020

HALs Light Combat Helicopters deployed at Leh

15 August 2020

Perseids meteor shower

15 August 2020

Role of ISRO in development activities

14 August 2020

Raman

14 August 2020

Sputnik V

14 August 2020

SpaceX’s SN5 Starship prototype

14 August 2020

Tick-borne virus

14 August 2020

Solar flare

14 August 2020

Submarine Optical Fibre Cable (OFC)

13 August 2020

Plasmodium Vivax Malaria

13 August 2020

Pathogens Found in Yamuna

11 August 2020

Coronal Magnetic Field

11 August 2020

Pyrolysis

11 August 2020

Meta-grid

11 August 2020

Pokkali rice

07 August 2020

Dragon Capsule

07 August 2020

Fluorosis

07 August 2020

What is OXY2?

05 August 2020

Economical nonsurgical prevention of cataract

05 August 2020

RADx initiative

05 August 2020

Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN)

05 August 2020

BeiDou

04 August 2020

Operation Breathing space

02 August 2020

Barakah

02 August 2020

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover

01 August 2020

A report on antibiotic use in the dairy sector

31 July 2020

BANDICOOT

31 July 2020

Gas flaring

30 July 2020

India will also get 3 Missiles from France to be integrated in Raphael aircrafts

29 July 2020

World Hepatitis Day

29 July 2020

Electric potter wheels

27 July 2020

African swine fever

27 July 2020

India’s first in-orbit space debris monitoring and tracking system

25 July 2020

COVID-19 Law Lab

25 July 2020

(Ind-SAT) Test 2020

25 July 2020

ASTHROS Mission

25 July 2020

Bubonic plague

25 July 2020

Tianwen-1

25 July 2020

ABC (ATP-Binding Cassette) transporters – A Bacterial study

25 July 2020

Delhi’s serological survey

23 July 2020

Artificial materials and ultrasound to detect defects in large structures

23 July 2020

ANASIS-II

23 July 2020

Dhruvastra

23 July 2020

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFTAM)

23 July 2020

Hope Probe mission

22 July 2020

A tool to Detect Colon Cancer

22 July 2020

Vitamin D

22 July 2020

IntelliMAST and Touch less Faucet.

21 July 2020

MediCAB

18 July 2020

Bio – Markers

18 July 2020

Human Growth Hormone

17 July 2020

COROSURE

16 July 2020

Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine

16 July 2020

NEOWISE

15 July 2020

Russian institute completes Human clinical trial

14 July 2020

DAC to acquire unmanned aerial vehicle

14 July 2020

Chakr DeCoV

13 July 2020

India’s First AI Technology Centre

11 July 2020

BLUIS’- Bhubaneswar Land Use Intelligence System

10 July 2020

Unisaviour

10 July 2020

Intelligence satellite ‘Ofek-16’

10 July 2020

World’s Largest COVID-19 Treatment Facility Inaugurated in New Delhi

09 July 2020

Stevioside

09 July 2020

Planet TOI-849b

07 July 2020

Mars Biggest Natural Satellite ‘Phobos

07 July 2020

India’s first plasma bank

07 July 2020

COVAXIN

07 July 2020

Glyphosate

07 July 2020

CogX

07 July 2020

Scientists identifies new re-assorted influenza virus with pandemic potential

07 July 2020

New fungi species discovered in China

07 July 2020

Daily Bits

India signs Strategic Partnership Agreement with International Energy Agency (IEA)

Indian Telegraph Act, 1885

Gond art in the street culture of Singapore

Nanofibers stronger than steel

DRDO successfully tests new generation Akash missile

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