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Multi‑Stage Malaria Vaccine AdFalciVax

Why in news? The Indian government licensed five domestic firms to manufacture and commercialise AdFalciVax, the country’s first indigenou...

China vs India in Rare Earth Elements (REEs)

Why in news? China recently tightened controls on rare earth mining and processing, reinforcing its global dominance. This development has s...

Mpox (Monkeypox) Virus

Why in news? The World Health Organization announced in mid‑2025 that mpox, also known as monkeypox, no longer constitutes a Public Health...

Acanthamoeba: A Protozoan Health Risk

Why in news? Health authorities in Kerala raised alarm over the detection of Acanthamoeba in several water bodies. The organism can cause se...

India’s First Port‑based Green Hydrogen Pilot Project at V.O. Chidambaranar Port

Why in news? In September 2025 the V.O. Chidambaranar Port Authority in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu commissioned India’s first port‑based gr...

The Blood Moon

Why in news? On the night of 7–8 September 2025, people across India observed a total lunar eclipse known as a “blood moon”. Social me...

2D Materials

Why in news? NITI Aayog’s Frontier Tech Hub, together with the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, released the fourth edition of it...

Majorana Particles

Why in news? Physicists around the world are excited about recent experiments suggesting the existence of Majorana particles in superconduct...

Cabinet Clears ₹1,500 crore Scheme to Promote Critical Mineral Recycling

Why in news? In September 2025 the Union Cabinet approved a six‑year incentive scheme worth ₹1,500 crore under the National Critical M...

Vikram 32‑bit processor: India’s first space‑grade microprocessor

Why in news? At the Semicon India conference held in Bengaluru in early September 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled Vikram 3201 â€...

High performance biomanufacturing platforms

Why in news? The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) unveiled a national ne...

CEREBO: Indigenous tool for rapid brain injury detection

Why in news? Scientists from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), AIIMS Bhopal, NIMHANS and startup Bioscan Research recently intr...

ISRO transfers critical technologies to private industry

Why in news? In‑SPACe, the government body promoting India’s space sector, facilitated the transfer of five technologies developed by th...

AICTE declares 2025 the Year of AI

Why in news? The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) announced that 2025 will be observed as the “Year of Artificial Intelli...

Rare quadruple star system discovered

Why in news? Astronomers announced the discovery of a rare quadruple star system named UPM J1040‑33551 AabBab, located about eighty‑two ...

Samudrayaan Project

Why in news? Two Indian aquanauts recently dived more than 5,000 metres in the Atlantic Ocean aboard a French submersible as part of trainin...

National Biofoundry Network

Why in news? India launched its first National Biofoundry Network under the BioE3 initiative to accelerate biomanufacturing and synthetic bi...

Revised National Action Plan on Glanders

Why in news? The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying updated its action plan for managing glanders, a contagious equine disease, wit...

UPM J1040−3551 AabBab

Why in news? Astronomers discovered a rare quadruple star system in our Milky Way galaxy named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab. It is the first know...

India’s First Veterinary Blood Transfusion Guidelines 2025

Why in news? In August 2025 the Government of India released the country’s first guidelines for veterinary blood transfusion. The aim is t...