Recently, the Ministry of Defence has launched Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) Prime and the sixth Defence India Start-up Challenge (DISC 6) during DefConnect 2.0 in New Del DefConnect 2.0 is a one-day event to bring together start-ups, big companies and armed forces personnel to boost indigenous innovation in the …

A team of researchers from Stanford University have found the possibility of water on one of Jupiter’s moons Europa, a prime candidate for life in the solar system. Earlier, NASA’s(National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Dawn spacecraft, dwarf planet Ceres reportedly found salty water underground. Earlier, Scientists also found signatures of …

Recently, the US conducted an open-air study of genetically engineered mosquitoes which shows promising results. The aim of the study is to reduce the population of wild Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that are a vector for viruses such as chikungunya, dengue, zika and yellow fever. The mosquitoes had already been field-tested …

Recently, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change submitted its report on the proposed the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021. The standing committee has found that some species were excluded from various schedules of wildlife and plants that have been proposed by the …

Recently, Japan described four islands whose ownership it disputes with Russia as illegally occupied in the latest version of a diplomatic Bluebook. The use of stronger language underscored the chilled relations between the two sides amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia refers to these islands as the Kuril Islands, …