On December 4, the RBI issued a directive to all banks, including RRBs, NBFCs, and payment gateways, stating that the processing of recurring transactions (domestic or cross-border) using cards, Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPIs), or the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) under non-AFA arrangements/practices would be discontinued after March 31, 2021.
According to Agriculture Minister Mr. Narendra Singh Tomar, India is the world’s fourth-largest producer of agrochemicals, and the industry has a tremendous potential for development with the help of research, innovation, and a quick registration procedure.
Though Isro and Nasa have been cooperating on separate missions like synthetic aperture radar satellite NISAR project and Chandrayaan-1, this is the first time both the countries have decided to jointly work on a framework for SSA, which involves tracking space objects both natural like meteors and man-made such as satellites. SSA involves collating data on orbiting satellites, rocket parts and space debris and monitoring threats to a country’s space assets from any hostile satellite and analysing such data to convert them into actionable information to deal with such threats.
ISRO’s first mission dedicated for astronomy, AstroSat, launched on 28 September 2015 with its design life of five years, on Tuesday completed six years of its operation. “It (AstroSat) is expected to last some more years”, A S Kiran Kumar who as the then Chairman of ISRO led the mission team, and is presently serving as the chair of the apex science committee at the space agency, told PTI. “We can expect some more results to come which will be path-breaking”, he said.
Each airframe of the BrahMos missile consists of 138 complicated sub-assemblies that are manufactured from more than 1,500 parts. The BrahMos missile is a stealth universal supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from ships, submarines, aircraft, and land-based platforms. It can be used for a precision strike to destroy targets on land and sea.
Wearable motion sensors are made of materials that convert the mechanical strain that arises from human movement into electrical signals. The material must be flexible, robust, and highly sensitive to both large and subtle movements.
Carbon Clean’s technology, consisting of a modular carbon capture skid, has been installed at Tata Steel’s Jamshedpur steel plant in India. The facility is capturing 5 t/d of CO2 from the blast furnace. The captured CO2 is reused onsite for a variety of applications such as for water treatment. Tata Steel plans that scaled-up facilities in the future will be able to use captured CO2 to produce methanol and other value-added products.
Capable of being injected owing to its two phases (liquid and gel) based on the incubation temperature, they explored its potential to serve as a material for minimally invasive treatment to replace complicated surgeries. Until now, no solution is available to prevent corneal scarring following an injury. They demonstrated, for the first time, that this hydrogel can be applied immediately after injury which helps to regenerate the cornea without scarring. Until now, no treatment is available other than partial donor corneal graft or corneal transplantation for scarring, which is already present in the visual acuity.
MSD Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd has rolled out India’s first gender-neutral Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in a bid to reduce the HPV-related disease burden and cancers caused by the virus in Indian women, girls as well as boys.
India and the UK are likely to announce a joint declaration on “one sun, one world, one grid” — or OSOWOG, a concept New Delhi has been pushing through its International Solar Alliance — at the upcoming COP26.
