Category Archives: Science & Technology

RECORDS : SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : India Successfully Test-Fires Army Version of MRSAM Missile System

India successfully test-fired the Army version of Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (MRSAM) from a defence facility off the Odisha coast on Sunday, March 27th  demonstrating the system’s high killing efficiency.

The state-of-the-art missile was flight tested in full operational configuration from the launching complex – III of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur at about 10.30 am.

The missile intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle achieving a ‘direct hit’.

source/content: newindianexpress.com

RECORDS : SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : India’s First Ever Long-Lasting ‘Steel Slag’ Road built in Gujarat

Highligts:

  • This steel slag road is built with 100 per cent processed steel slag
  • India’s first-ever ‘steel slag ’road, which has been built by ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India with CSIR India, CRRI and Niti Aayog

In the first use case of waste steel in India, a road has been constructed using waste steel in Surat at the Hazira industrial area.

It is India’s first-ever ‘steel slag road’, which has been built by ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India with CSIR India (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) and the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) and government think tank Niti Aayog.

Steel slag road is built with 100 per cent processed steel slag, which aggregates in all layers of bituminous roads at Hazira, Surat.

source/content: livemint.com (edited)

WORLD RECORDS : SOLAR ENERGY : India 5th in Global Position in Solar Power Deployment Surpassing Italy

India achieved 5th global position in solar power deployment by surpassing Italy.

Solar power capacity has increased by more than 11 times in the last five years from 2.6 GW in March,2014 to 30 GW in July, 2019.  Presently, solar tariff in India is very competitive and has achieved grid parity.

India added a record 10 Gigawatt (GW) of solar energy to its cumulative installed capacity in 2021. This has been the highest 12-month capacity addition, recording nearly a 200% year-on-year growth. India has now surpassed 50 GW of cumulative installed solar capacity, as on 28 February 2022.

This is a milestone in India’s journey towards generating 500 GW from renewable energy by 2030, of which 300 GW is expected to come from solar power.

India’s capacity additions rank the country fifth in solar power deployment, contributing nearly 6.5% to the global cumulative capacity of 709.68 GW.

source: mnre.gov.in / Ministry of New and Renewable Energy – Solar Energy /and /  thehindu.com

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : IIT Madras researchers develop new technique to provide high resolution ultrasound images

The research could facilitate better diagnosis of diseases, detection of minute abnormalities and better real-time image-guided biopsy procedures and treatment monitoring applications.

“This research could potentially facilitate several applications like early detection and better diagnosis of diseases, detection of minute abnormalities within human body like renal stones, better real-time image-guided biopsy procedures and treatment monitoring applications,” Arun K Thittai, Professor, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras, told PTI.

source: newindianexpress.com

INT’L PARTICIPATION & RECORD : Agreement signed for setting up ‘ WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine’ (WHO GCTM) in India

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday,March 09th,  approved the establishment of a WHO (World Health Organization) Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (WHO GCTM) at Jamnagar in Gujarat.

An agreement was signed by the Government of India with the world body in this regard.

The WHO GCTM, to be established under the Ministry of AYUSH ( Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Homoeopathy), will be the first and only global outposted centre (office) for traditional medicines.

source: thehindu.com

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : Odia Scientist Dr Mamoni Dash Invents Polymer for Pest Control

Use of insecticides and pesticides will soon become a thing of past.

Scientist  of Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) Dr Mamoni Dash has developed the polymer, which can be used instead of pesticides. The polymer has been developed to target the specific genes of different types of crops that come under the pest attack. It will help overcome the ongoing conventional control strategy of insecticides and pesticides usage.

This new invention in the field of agriculture has made her one of the 75 achievers under 50 in the field of Science and Technology in India.

source: newindianexpress.com

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : Indigenously Developed ‘Automatic Train Collusion Prevention System ‘Kavach’ for Domestic Implementation and Future Exports.

‘Kavach’ a technological development of the Indian Railways. It is a phenomenal improvement in safety and a significant contributor to accident prevention.

A major milestone in the Indian Railways in the avoidance of the head-on collusion by ‘Kavach’ without any manual intervention.

The technology is scheduled to be implemented in the entire rail network in the country and will also be exported to the world in the future.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : DRDO-developed Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits on board ISRO’s EOS04 Satellite

Monolithic microwave integrated circuits developed by the DRDO are on board the EOS04 satellite launched on February 14 by the Indian Space Research Organisation, the Defence Ministry.

The circuits have been used in radar imaging modules of the satellite, the ministry said in a statement..

source: newindianexpress.com

RECORDS, MEDICINE : U.P. Doctor sets Record with 107 Eye Surgeries in 16 hours

Dr S.P. Singh, Director of the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology and Principal of the MLN Medical College (MLNMC), Prayagraj, has set a new record by conducting 107 phacoemulsification surgeries with intraocular lens (IOL) implant free of cost within a span of 16-and-a-half-hours.

“The surgeries were performed between 6 a.m and 10.30 p.m. continuously for 16-and-a-half hours on February 25.

Earlier, then Brigadier (Dr) J.K.S Parihar of the Army Hospital Research and Referral in New Delhi, had performed 34 phacoemulsification surgeries in October 2011 in eastern Ladakh and made a place for himself in the Limca Book of Records.

On March 5, 2001, Singh had set a record, which was registered in the Limca Book of Records, by performing 81 operations in 11 hours at one go

source: thehindu.com / IANS

SCIENCE : Scientists of IISc, India and QBI, Australia have devised new Math Model to predict Coronavirus Vaccine Efficacy

A mathematical model that predicts how antibodies made by COVID-19 vaccines protect against symptomatic infections has been developed by scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) in Australia.

A paper about the study was published in Nature Computational Science.