Modi warns against deep fakes Context On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the exploitation of artificial intelligence for making deepfakes was worrisome, and he requested the media to educate people about such activities. He was speaking to reporters at the BJP’s national office […]
Govt. mulls partnerships to make semiconductor chips Context Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar announced that the six working groups that had been tasked with reviewing the Indian government’s artificial intelligence (AI) roadmap had turned in their first version of a […]
ICMR nod to conduct Truenat test to detect Nipah Context The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has authorized Kerala to use the Truenat test to identify Nipah. The test can be done in hospitals with BSL 2-level laboratories. Health Minister Veena George has stated […]
FM stresses the urgent need for reliable crop yield estimates Context: On Tuesday, Nirmala Sitharaman, the minister of finance and corporate affairs, made a compelling case for producing real-time forecasts of likely yields for all crucial crops, starting with the pulses and oilseeds that India […]
Launch of Global Biofuels Alliance a key moment in the quest for clean energy: PM Context India officially inaugurated the Global Biofuels Alliance on Saturday, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi pleaded with the G-20 to join the initiative to raise the global ethanol-to-gasoline blend to […]
Centre’s DIKSHA e-education platform to offer AI help Context The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s National e-Governance Division (NeGD) plans to include Personalised Adaptive Learning (PAL) into its current Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (DIKSHA) platform. Each student should be able to have an […]
Aditya-L1 ‘Healthy’, in New Orbit: ISRO Context Aditya-L1, India’s first solar observatory project, which was launched on Saturday, received its first earthbound fire on Sunday from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). What is Aditya-L1? The first Indian mission to study the Sun in space […]
India’s first solar observatory mission to be launched today Context On Saturday at 11.50 a.m., the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota carrying India’s first solar observatory mission, known as Aditya-L1. What is Aditya-L1? The […]
After Chandrayaan-3, what are ISRO’s plans? Context On August 23, at 6:03 IST, the Chandrayaan-3 lander made contact with the lunar surface in the south polar area. The spacecraft navigated itself from an altitude of around 30 km and a speed of 1.7 km/s down […]
The moon-landing spot is now ‘Shiv Shakti’ Context On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that the location of Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander’s landing would be known as “Shiv Shakti,” and the location of Chandrayaan-2’s lunar footprint would be known as “Tiranga.” Naming Lunar Points: Two […]