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India hosts Global Partnership on AI

Context The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit kickstarts in New Delhi. Key Details on Global Partnership on AI ...

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), ...

What is tantalum?

Context A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar has found the presence of tantalum, a rare ...

Asteroid Dinkinesh

Context NASA's Lucy mission will fly by an asteroid called Dinkinesh, situated in the main asteroid belt between the orbits ...

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 ...

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, ...

Aditya L-1 launch mission

Context The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched Aditya L-1, its first space-based mission to study the Sun, from the Satish ...

Pirola new Covid-19 variant

Context Recently, the rise of Covid-19 infections in multiple countries, driven by a new Coronavirus variant called BA.2.86, which is informally ...

Bisphenol-A

Context The CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pune has successfully demonstrated the operations of a pilot plant capable of manufacturing ...

Aditya-L1 mission and its importance

Context The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on recently released images of the Aditya-L1 mission — the space agency’s first attempt ...

EG.5 Covid variant ERIS

Context There is a new COVID variant: EG.5, also known as Eris. About EG.5 The WHO has classified the EG.5 ...

What is Fediverse?

Context Currently available as a standalone app, but can only be used through an Instagram account, Threads will be the company’s ...

Data Protection Bill 2023

Context The Data Protection Bill 2023 has been tabled in Parliament without clarifying how and on what basis these changes ...

Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System (SMPS)

Context Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully tested the Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System (SMPS) at ISRO Propulsion Complex in Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu ...

What are Bacteriophages?

Context With antibiotic resistance rising, scientists think bacteriophages — which hunt and kill bacteria — could cure bacterial infections. Bacteriophages: ...