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India’s Installed Nuclear Power Capacity

Context: India’s installed Nuclear Power Capacity to Triple by 2031-32. “The present installed nuclear power capacity is set to increase...

State’s  Right to Levy Tax on Mineral Rights

Context: The Supreme Court, in a decision by a 9-judge constitution bench with an 8:1 majority, ruled that states have...

GM Mustard

Context: The Supreme Court pronounced a split verdict on the validity of the Centre’s 2022 decision granting conditional approval for...

Apple allow PC Emulator on its App Store

Context : Apple has approved a PC emulator for iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS, enabling users to run classic software and...

Subatomic Splashes: Restarting Experiments at CERN

Context: Unlike microwaves or computers, the LHC at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN requires a few...

Payment Aggregator-Cross Border (PA-CB)

Context: Cashfree Payments, a (Non-Bank) company specialising in banking solutions and payments, received the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) approval...

World Bank Group Guarantee Platform

Context: The World Bank Group has launched a new guarantee platform to enhance private sector financing for development, aiming to...

Species in News: Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha)

Species in News: Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha)

Context: Recently, Colorado Parks and Wildlife discovered zebra mussel larvae in the Colorado River east of Grand Junction, marking the...

INS Brahmaputra

Context: The Indian Navy warship INS Brahmaputra, a frontline guided missile frigate, recently suffered severe damages due to a fire...

Research Breakthrough at Tokyo University: Attaching Living Skin Cells to Robot Faces

Context: Scientists at Tokyo University have developed a method to attach living skin cells to robot faces, enabling more realistic...

Direct Air Capture Technology (DAC)

Context: Last year, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions hit a record 37 billion metric tons. Consequently, direct air capture technology...

Glacial Geoengineering: A Potential Solution to Sea-Level Rise

Context: Recent scientific conferences have highlighted two main technological interventions to slow sea-level rise caused by climate change: fibre-based curtains...

World’s First High-Speed Carbon Fibre Train

Context: China has unveiled Carbon Star Rapid Transit (Cetrovo 1.0), the world’s first high-speed passenger train constructed entirely from carbon...

Species in News: Phlogacanthus Sudhansusekhari

Species in News: Phlogacanthus Sudhansusekhari

Context: Researchers from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have made an exciting discovery in Arunachal Pradesh. They found a...

OpenAI’s secret project ‘Strawberry

Context: US-basedOpenAI is reportedly building a new AI model, called strawberry model, which may dramatically improve AI reasoning capabilities and...