National Digital Health Blueprint (NDHB)
Government of India is committed to ensuring high quality healthcare, accessible to all upto the last mile. The digital health interventions are accelerating this transformation and have a huge potential for supporting...
UPSC: ISRO’s newly introduced half-humanoid is named Vyommitra
The Indian Space Research Organization had created a multitasking female humanoid robot named Vyommitra that can talk and also perform tasks like a human space explorer. ISRO’s Vyommitra’s name is derived from...
India’s role in space sciences
ISRO's vision is to "tackle space innovation for the national turn of events" while pursuing space science research and planetary investigation. The accomplishments are wonderful considering the parsimonious financial plan of the Indian Space...
Chandrayaan-2 Mission: Significance and Challenges
ISRO recently announced the launch date (July 15, 2019) of Chandrayaan-2 mission, after the long delay from the scheduled launch.
Reasons for the delay in the mission
Chandrayaan-2‘s predecessor, Chandrayaan-1, was an Orbiter mission which...
Embracing Digital Governance
Due to the rapid rise of the internet and digitization, Governments all over the world are initiating steps to involve Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in all governmental processes. Several government programs...
Cartosat-3 : 2019
The PSLV-C47 will launch Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nano-satellites into Sun Synchronous orbit from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota.
CARTOSAT-3 is a third generation agile advanced satellite having high resolution imaging capability.
CARTOSAT-3 would...
Sounding Rockets
What are Sounding Rockets?
Sounding rockets are one or two-stage solid propellant rockets which are primarily intended for space research and also for probing the upper atmospheric regions using...
IndiGen initiative
The IndiGen initiative was undertaken by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in April 2019, which was implemented by the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi and CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB),...
National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell Battery Storage
The Department of Heavy Industry would implement the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme 'National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) Battery Storage’ to attain a manufacturing capacity of Fifty Giga Watt Hour (GWh) of...