Indo-Norway Integrated Ocean Initiative

The Indo Norway Integrated Ocean Initiative was launched in accordance with an MoU signed between India and Norway in 2019. It is collaboration for ensuring the health of oceans. It focuses on combating marine pollution, sustainable use of ocean resources, ..

WCT Project

WCT or West Container terminal project is a Sri Lankan project, which the island nation’s government recently decided to offer to India and Japan. This comes a month after reneging on an agreement regarding the ECT project with the two ..

Surya Prakash Committee

Surya Prakash Committee is a panel appointed by the Rajya Sabha Chairman in consultation with the Lok Sabha Speaker to work out modalities regarding the two channels of the Parliament- RSTV and LSTV. The committee is former Prasar Bharati chairman ..

APT41

APT41 (advanced persistent threat) is a cyber threat group that is known to carry out Chinese state sponsored cyber attacks and other financially motivated cyber attacks. It is also known as the Double Dragon. Since 2012, the group has attacked ..

ShadowPad

ShadowPad is a malware that is alleged to be behind the October blackout in Mumbai. It has been linked to Chinese cyberattacks in the past too. It was discovered in 2017. It was found injected into software updates by NetSarang, ..

Red Echo

Red Echo is a Chinese state sponsored group that is alleged to have been behind the October 12 blackout in Mumbai. The incident left many parts of India’s financial capital without electricity for as long as 24 hours. The group ..

SpaceX Starship

Starship is an under-development mission to moon. It is being developed by American aerospace firm SpaceX. It was announced in 2018. It seeks to become the first civilian mission to moon and would be taking Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire ..

Holotype

The term ‘holotype’ refers to an illustration or physical example of a species. It may also refer to one of several physical examples of the organism. It is a unique type specimen that is designated by the original author (who ..

Epigraph algorithm

Epigraph algorithm is a novel computer algorithm that could predict vaccine candidate for various diseases. It was developed by scientists at the Los Alamos National Lab in the USA. The software was recently used to predict HIV vaccine candidates. The ..

Physarum polycephalum

Physarum polycephalum is a single-cell slime mold. It was recently found to be capable of saving memories despite the absence of nervous system. This finding deviates from the traditional assumption that memories are held by only by those organisms with ..