Background The contest to develop national Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities has sharpened significantly since the public launch in late 2022 of highly capable large-language models. India launched its first national strategy for AI in June 2018 and an AI task …
India’s commitment to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change At the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), India presented the following five goals (Panchamrit) of climate action: …
About Bird flu, also called avian influenza, is a viral infection caused by Influenza Type A viruses which spreads from bird to bird. These viruses occur naturally among wild aquatic birds worldwide and can infect domestic poultry and other bird …
About the Act The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 aims to eliminate atrocities that are occurring against members of the SCs and STs while at the same time providing protection, compensation and rehabilitation to victims. …
About The government has approved the Digital Agriculture Mission in September 2024. This mission leverages modern technology to improve the lives of farmers, building on the foundation of Digital Public Infrastructure. The initiative will employ tools such as artificial intelligence …
About Saint Ravidas, also known as Guru Ravidas or Bhagat Ravidas, was a revered saint, poet, and social reformer in the Bhakti movement. Born in the late 14th century in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, Guru Ravidas belonged to a family of …
About UIDAI The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a statutory authority established under the provisions of Aadhaar Act 2016 under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). UIDAI was created in 2009 to issue Unique Identification numbers …
About The ‘Khelo India – National Programme for Development of Sports’ was launched in 2016-17 with the twin objective of mass participation and promotion of excellence in sports across the country. The scheme comprises the following five components: Creation and …
About Piezoelectric materials are materials that produce an electric current when they are placed under mechanical stress. The piezoelectric process is reversible. When these voltage-generating crystals are exposed to an electric field they get lengthened or shortened (change shape). Thus, …
About Cryptography is the name for techniques that secure information by converting plain text into ciphertext (encrypted data that is unreadable until it is decrypted). Cryptography is most often associated with scrambling plaintext (ordinary text) into ciphertext (a process called …