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DRDO innovated automatic sanitiser and ultraviolet devices

DRDO innovated automatic sanitiser and ultraviolet devices

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) developed an automatic mist-based sanitiser for use while entering offices to ultraviolet devices that can destroy the genetic material of COVID-19. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Centre for Fire Explosive & Environment Safety (CFEES), Delhi has developed an automatic mist based sanitizer dispensing unit. It is a contactless […]

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Centre launched SAHYO app to help area-specific strategies, decisions in COVID-19 outbreak

Centre launched SAHYO app to help area-specific strategies, decisions in COVID-19 outbreak

Department of Science and Technology of Government of India has created an Integrated Geospatial Platform out of available geospatial datasets, standards-based services, and analytic tools to help decision making during the current COVID-19 outbreak and aid devising area-specific strategies to handle the socio-economic impact in the recovery phase. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The

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Aarogya Setu became world’s fastest app to reach 50 million downloads

Aarogya Setu became world’s fastest app to reach 50 million downloads

The Centre’s mobile app, Aarogya Setu, developed for tracking COVID-19 patients, has become the world’s fastest app to reach 50 million downloads in just 13 days. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Aarogya Setu app alerts people if any known person or person in their vicinity has tested positive. District administration has asked all

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SNBNCBS developed Nanomedicine to alter oxidative stress to treat viral infections including coronavirus

SNBNCBS developed Nanomedicine to alter oxidative stress to treat viral infections including coronavirus

Scientists at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata (SNBNCBS) have developed a safe and cost-effective nanomedicine that promises treatment of a number of diseases by altering oxidative stress in the body. The nanomedicine can decrease or increase reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the human body, depending on the situation and cure the

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New simulation code to study electric field structure in Earths Magnetosphere

New simulation code to study electric field structure in Earths Magnetosphere

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG) have developed a generalized one-dimensional fluid simulation code capable of studying a wide spectrum of coherent electric field structures in near-earth plasma environment or earth’s magnetosphere which can be useful in planning of future space missions. The new simulation code can be useful in planning future space

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Iran intends to restart activities at Arak heavy water nuclear reactor

The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization told Iranian lawmakers that Iran intends to restart activities at Arak heavy water nuclear reactor, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported, citing a lawmaker who was at the meeting. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Ali Akbar Salehi attended a parliamentary session to discuss recent developments in the 2015

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NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX to launch NASA’s Imaging Xray polarimetry explorer (IXPE) mission

NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX to launch NASA’s Imaging Xray polarimetry explorer (IXPE) mission

NASA has awarded the launch services contract for the agency’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission to SpaceX. Once launched, IXPE will measure polarized X-rays from black holes, neutron stars and more. The data collected will enable astronomers to peer behind the curtain of some of the most exotic and mysterious astronomical objects in our

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ISRO teams up with Russian company Glavkosmos for the selection support, medical examination and space training

ISRO teams up with Russian company Glavkosmos for the selection support, medical examination and space training

The Indian Space Research Organisation has signed a contract with a Russian company “Glavkosmos” for selection support, medical examination and space training of Indian astronauts for the country’s proposed maiden manned space mission ‘Gaganyaan’. The contract was signed by Glavkosmos’ first Deputy Director-General, Natalia Lokteva, and Director of the Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC) of

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