The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed for passenger buses a technology called ''Fire Detection and Suppression System (FDSS)''. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points FDSS technology can detect fire in buses in less than 30 seconds and extinguish it in ...

India successfully launched its latest earth observation satellite EOS-01 and nine customer satellites on board its Polar rocket from the spaceport in Sriharikota. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points PSLV-C49 is the 2nd flight of PSLV in 'DL' configuration (with 2 solid strap-on ...

Gov-Tech-Thon 2020, a 36 hours, pan-India virtual hackathon organized by IEEE, National Informatics Centre (NIC) and Oracle, under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, witnessed a successful conclusion on 1st November, 2020. Daily ...

An advanced version of the DRDO-developed Pinaka rocket was successfully flight tested from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. A total of six rockets were launched in series and all the tests met complete mission objectives. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

Union Minister of State for Education Sanjay Dhotre launched a self-help website “Bandhu” for students of IIT Bombay in the presence of Director of IIT Bombay Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Bandhu has been designed in conjunction with the counsellors ...

The Bengaluru based Indian Institute of Science and R&D Centre of Indian Oil Corporation have signed an MOU to develop and demonstrate biomass gasification based hydrogen generation technology for producing fuel cell-grade hydrogen at an affordable price. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

For the first time, scientists have completed a 3D map that reveals the location of every atom in the molecule of this enzyme. As Covid-19 cases surge again in several countries, this 3D mapping will allow scientists to better understand how the coronavirus behaves, and how it can be stopped. ...

Indian Army has developed a simple and secure messaging application named the “Secure Application for Internet (SAI)” in the quest for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’.  The application supports end to end secure voice, text and video calling services for Android platform over internet.  Daily ...

Recently published findings on convalescent plasma therapy on Covid-19 patients have triggered a debate over its efficacy. After the country’s largest such trial, known by the acronym PLACID, found that convalescent plasma was ineffective in arresting Covid-19, the Indian Council of Medical ...

A recent study suggests that the drug tocilizumab may not prevent mortality in Covid-19 patients. It is the second such study on this drug. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Tocilizumab is the second drug, after hydroxychloroquine, that had quickly earned global popularity as a ...