'The announcement in the interim Budget for 2024-25, of a corpus of ?1 lakh crore to bolster the research and innovation ecosystem within the country, has sparked enthusiasm within the scientific and Read More...
'Recently a Calcutta High Court judge and a senior IPS officer in West Bengal resigned from their posts and joined political parties.' This has once again raised questions of propriety about indepe Read More...
'The Annual Status of Education Report 2023 states that more than 86.8% individuals in the age group of 14-18 are enrolled in educational institutions, but one-fourth of them cannot read a Class 2-lev Read More...
'The vital second stage of India’s three-stage nuclear programme got a boost with the commencement of ‘core loading’ at the country’s first indigenous Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR Read More...
'ChatGPT is able to accept an input question from a user, make ‘sense’ of it, and answer accordingly.' LLMs are trained on a large corpus of text, where some words are randomly replace Read More...
'The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) presented draft guidelines on Disclosure framework on Climate-related Financial Risks, 2024.' According to the regulator, climate-related financial risks may emanat Read More...
'India remains the world’s top arms importer and its imports increased by 4.7 per cent between 2014–2018 and 2019–2023. ' Pakistan was the fifth largest arms importer in 2019&ndas Read More...
'South Korean company Hyodol has come up with a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to beat loneliness among elders with dementia — it has invented a ‘social robot’ priced at $1, Read More...
'In a fission reactor, neutrons bombard the nuclei of atoms of certain elements.' When one such nucleus absorbs a neutron, it destabilises and breaks up, yielding some energy and the nuclei of diff Read More...
'On March 12, marking the 94th anniversary of the Dandi March that began from the Sabarmati Ashram, Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed the ‘Ashram Bhoomi Vandana’, a symbolic laying of Read More...