UCAV Arrow

Recently, Singapore-based Kelley Aerospace (UAV building firm) officially launched the world’s first supersonic unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV). This jet is capable of travelling faster than sound, reaching as high as Mach 2.1. It has minimal radar cross-section and infra-red ..

International North-South Transport Corridor

International North-South Transport Corridor or INSTC is a 7,200 km long multi-mode network spanning across 13 countries. It was first proposed in 2000 to improve connectivity between India, Central Asia and Russia. On Chabahar Day, India called for the inclusion ..

Fishing Cats

Fishing cats are mainly found in the marshy wetlands of northern and eastern India and on mangroves of the east coast. Since 2016, it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Odisha state government has designated this ..

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope has concluded its final functional tests in California recently. This telescope, which is set to be launched this year, is part of an international programme involving the NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency. It will ..

Moray eel

Moray eel is a family of marine and brackish water eels (elongated ray-finned fishes) that occur throughout the world. Very rarely, they live in freshwater habitats. Recently, veterinarians performed a rare operation on a moray eel in Thiruvananthapuram Zoo in ..

Crypto art

Crypto art refers to a niche genre of art that is related to blockchain technology. These artworks are tracked and traded through the distributed ledger system and hence its uniqueness is established (i.e. recorded on the blockchain). Each individual piece ..

Mitra chatbot

Mitra is a WhatsApp API enabled chatbot from Vahan, a livelihood platform that makes use of AI technology. More than 1 lakh blue collared (jobs that require physical work) professionals have found employment opportunities with the help of this chatbot. ..

OPCW

OPCW or Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is the international chemical weapons watchdog, headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands. It is the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention. It also oversees the global effort to eliminate the ..

Old growth forest

Old growth forests or virgin forests are those forests that have reached great age and bear no visible signs of human activity. About one third of the world’s forest are old growth forests. A huge portion of them is in ..

Frontier technology

Frontier technology is any potentially disruptive technology that can be used to address a large scale problem. It is considered as the next phase in the evolution of technology. Some of the frontier technologies include big data, internet of things, ..