Science & Technology Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Tue, 04 Feb 2025
- On 4 February 2025, in Mohali, Punjab, the Department of Science and Technology announced that the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST) had developed a self-actuating drug delivery system for rheumatoid arthritis.
- MeitY Secretary S Krishnan inaugurated the NIELIT Centre of Excellence in Chip Design at its Noida campus on 4 February 2025, set up with DPIIT-recognised startup SoCTeamup Semiconductors.
Mon, 03 Feb 2025
- On 3 February 2025, in Bengaluru, Karnataka, the Department of Science and Technology announced that the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences had developed a high-entropy alloy catalyst, PtPdCoNiMn, for efficient hydrogen production by water electrolysis.
- On 3 February 2025, in Faridabad, Haryana, India's first Ferret Research Facility was dedicated at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), and the GARBH-INi-DRISHTI data repository was launched.
Sun, 02 Feb 2025
Sat, 01 Feb 2025
- On 1 February 2025, in Parliament in New Delhi, the Union Budget 2025-26 announced 50,000 Atal Tinkering Labs in government schools over 5 years and Day Care Cancer Centres in all district hospitals over 3 years.
- On 1 February 2025, off the coast of Odisha, DRDO conducted three successive flight-trials of the Very Short-Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) from Chandipur.
Fri, 31 Jan 2025
- MeitY notified the Aadhaar Authentication for Good Governance (Social Welfare, Innovation, Knowledge) Amendment Rules, 2025 on 31 January 2025, allowing government and non-government entities to use Aadhaar authentication for public-interest services.
- The DRDO-Industry-Academia Centre of Excellence at IIT Hyderabad, Telangana demonstrated a Large Area Additive Manufacturing (LAAM) System for fabricating rocket components, DRDO announced on 31 January 2025.
- The Ministry of Railways introduced 'SwaRail', a SuperApp developed by CRIS that brings Indian Railways' public services into one platform, for beta testing on 31 January 2025.
- Maha Kumbh Nagar in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh readied 23 hospitals with 360 beds and activated a medical force ahead of the third Amrit Snan on Basant Panchami (3 February 2025), PIB reported on 31 January 2025.
Thu, 30 Jan 2025
- Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced in New Delhi on 30 January 2025 that the IndiaAI Mission has built a common computing facility of about 18,693 GPUs and that India will launch its own indigenous AI model.
- Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics devised a method to estimate the instantaneous expansion speed and radial size of coronal mass ejections from single-point spacecraft measurements, DST reported on 30 January 2025.
- The Health Ministry illuminated India Gate in New Delhi in purple and orange on 30 January 2025 to mark World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Day.
Wed, 29 Jan 2025
- ISRO's GSLV-F15 lifted off from the Second Launch Pad at Sriharikota at 06:23 hrs on 29 January 2025 carrying the NVS-02 navigation satellite, the 100th launch from India's spaceport.
- Researchers at the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism found that the north magnetic pole's drift from Canada towards Siberia has raised the penetration altitudes of charged particles over Siberia, DST reported on 29 January 2025.
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
- The Government of Tripura signed an MoU with MeitY's Digital India Bhashini Division in Agartala on 28 January 2025, becoming the first North-Eastern state and the eighth state in India to do so.
- Researchers at JNCASR, Bengaluru, led by Prof. Bivas Saha, found that quantum confinement of electrons at the nanoscale breaks down plasmonic behaviour in metals, DST reported on 28 January 2025.
- CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research marked its 60th anniversary at an event in Lucknow on 28 January 2025 addressed by Union Minister Jitendra Singh.
Mon, 27 Jan 2025
- IIT Indore inaugurated AgriHub, a MeitY-supported Centre of Excellence using AI, machine learning and deep learning for sustainable agriculture, on 27 January 2025.
- The Union Health Ministry deputed a seven-member multi-disciplinary team to Pune, Maharashtra on 27 January 2025 after a spurt in Guillain-Barré Syndrome cases.
- Scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali developed a targeted nano-formulation for sustained release of the hormone 17β-Estradiol to the brain for Parkinson's disease, PIB reported on 27 January 2025.
- Union Minister Jitendra Singh virtually inaugurated the Incubation & Innovation Complex (IICON) of CSIR-NEIST at the North East Aroma Conclave 2025, PIB reported on 27 January 2025.
Sat, 25 Jan 2025
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
Wed, 22 Jan 2025
- A MeitY report, 'Estimation and Measurement of India's Digital Economy', released on 22 January 2025, estimated India's digital economy at 11.74% of national income in 2022-23, or ₹31.64 lakh crore.
- The Union Cabinet was apprised on 22 January 2025 of National Health Mission progress during 2021-24, including over 12 lakh additional health workers and 1.72 lakh Ayushman Arogya Mandirs.
- The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation announced on 22 January 2025 that its eSankhyiki data platform had 134 million records within seven months of its June 2024 launch.
Tue, 21 Jan 2025
- The 27th meeting of the Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council, chaired by Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay Kumar Sood at Vigyan Bhawan on 21 January 2025, discussed cell and gene therapy.
- TRAI Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti inaugurated the three-day South Asian Telecommunication Regulators' Council (SATRC) Workshop on Spectrum in Goa on 21 January 2025, organised by the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity.