Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) constituent laboratory Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC) based in Chennai has developed an indigenous technology, Emergency Retrieval System (ERS), for quick retrieval of power transmission in the event of failure of transmission ...

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has developed an antimicrobial food wrapping material. The team of researchers led by Professor Mukesh Doble of the Department of Biotechnology in the institute has said in a release, the novel material is biodegradable and can prevent the contamination of ...

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying a crew of four people to the International Space Station (ISS) on a six-month-long mission. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  The mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew ...

A massive asteroid named ‘Apophis’ expected to pass extremely close or may hit the Earth in 2068 due to a phenomenon called Yarkovsky effect. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Researchers at University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) in the US, have announced the ...

A model of Anti Satellite (A-SAT) Missile installed inside the DRDO Bhawan premises was unveiled by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.​ Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  ‘Mission Shakti’ was country’s first ever Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Missile Test successfully conducted on 27th ...

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed for passenger buses a technology called ''Fire Detection and Suppression System (FDSS)''. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points FDSS technology can detect fire in buses in less than 30 seconds and extinguish it in ...

India successfully launched its latest earth observation satellite EOS-01 and nine customer satellites on board its Polar rocket from the spaceport in Sriharikota. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points PSLV-C49 is the 2nd flight of PSLV in 'DL' configuration (with 2 solid strap-on ...

Gov-Tech-Thon 2020, a 36 hours, pan-India virtual hackathon organized by IEEE, National Informatics Centre (NIC) and Oracle, under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, witnessed a successful conclusion on 1st November, 2020. Daily ...

An advanced version of the DRDO-developed Pinaka rocket was successfully flight tested from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. A total of six rockets were launched in series and all the tests met complete mission objectives. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

Union Minister of State for Education Sanjay Dhotre launched a self-help website “Bandhu” for students of IIT Bombay in the presence of Director of IIT Bombay Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Bandhu has been designed in conjunction with the counsellors ...