X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite-XPoSat

Context Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced that India is set to launch its first X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat), aiming to investigate the polarisation of intense X-Ray sources. About…

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Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit

Context Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire near London was chosen to host the world’s first ever Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit. Twenty-eight major countries including the United States, China, Japan, the United…

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NexCAR19 India’s first CAR-T cell therapy

Context The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) this month granted market authorisation for NexCAR19, India’s first indigenously-developed CAR-T cell therapy, to ImmunoACT, a company incubated by IIT Bombay. This paves…

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