Why in News? An online database about the use of the spyware Pegasus was recently launched by the organisations including Forensic Architecture, Amnesty International and the Citizen Lab to document attacks against human rights defenders. What is spyware? Spyware is …
Why in News? Chinese astronauts successfully performed the country’s first spacewalk, on the outside of the new Tiangong station in orbit around the Earth. China’s Space Station: The multi-module Tiangong station is set to be operational for at least 10 …
About Co-WIN Co-WIN is a cloud-based IT platform, to handle the finer points of India’s Covid-19 immunisation programme, such as registering beneficiaries, allocating vaccination centres, sending text messages to beneficiaries with the name of their vaccinator, and live monitoring of …
What is Lightning? Lightning is the occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud. This violent and sudden electrostatic discharge generates a bright flash and …
About Nipah infection It is a viral infection caused by the Nipah virus (NiV). Fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are the natural host of Nipah virus. The disease was first identified in 1998 during an outbreak in Malaysia and …
Why in News: The Union Health Ministry has warned States that the delta plus variant, which is currently a variant of Covid-19, has increased transmissibility, stronger binding to receptors of lung cells and potential reduction in monoclonal antibody response. A …
Why in News: The facility for genome sequencing to identify new variants of SARS-CoV-2 has been started at Sawai Man Singh Government Medical College, making Rajasthan the first State in the country to have such a provision for complete sequencing …
What is it? The central nervous system is made up of two types of tissue: the grey matter and the white matter. The brain’s grey matter is the tissue in the central nervous system that consists of nerve cells, and …