Details of the S 400 Missiles

Details of the S 400 Missiles

Details of the S 400 Missiles: #GS III #Internal Security of India #Science and Technology  Topic Internal Security of India:   Context: According to government sources, the delivery of five regiments of S-400 air defence systems under a $5.43 billion agreement with Russia is anticipated […]

ALMA TELESCOPE: A Complete Overview

ALMA TELESCOPE: A Complete Overview

ALMA TELESCOPE #GS3 #Science and Technology Existing circumstances: The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a radio telescope with 66 antennas in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, is about to receive hardware and software upgrades that will allow it to gather much more data and […]

Heat Waves

Heat Waves

Heat Waves #GS 01 Geography, #GS 03 Science and Technology For Prelims Heat Waves As per Indian Meteorological Department, a region can be said to experience heat wave if its ambient temperature deviates by at least 4.5-6.4°C from the long-term average. Climate change is expected […]

Details of the Cyberattacks

Details of the Cyberattacks

Details of the Cyberattacks   #GS III #Science and Technology   Topic – Science and Technology   ∙Context: ∙The delicate underbelly of our fast expanding digital networks has been exposed over the past few weeks. An elite university in India called the All India Institute of Medical Sciences was the  target of the first ransomware attack on servers. Almost 40 million health records were compromised when the systems eventually went online more than two weeks later. Soon after, the  parent firm of Solar Industries Ltd, one of the Ministry of Defence’s suppliers of ammunition and explosives, was broken into by the ransomware group BlackCat, and more than 2 Terabyte of  data were taken.    ∙About:  ∙Cyberattacks are unauthorised attempts to gain access to computer systems with the goal of stealing, disclosing, altering, disabling, or destroying data.  ∙Often, ransomware-seeking organisations conduct such assaults to disable networks after encrypting data. Organizations are the targets of demands, which are routinely discussed and  subsequently satisfied without alerting law police.  ∙Cyberterrorism is typically defined as any planned, politically motivated attack on information systems, programmes, and data that either threatens or actually causes violence.    ∙India has seen an increase in cyberattacks because of:  ∙dependence on technology is growing As technology advances quickly, more and more services are moving online to improve usability and accessibility.  ∙The disadvantage of this tendency is that it increases the susceptibility of such systems to hacking.  ∙For instance, if hackers are successful in accessing a nation’s energy, financial, or nuclear networks, there is fear of severe harm and loss.  ∙The post-COVID era’s greater reliance on digital technology has exposed digital inequalities that must be eliminated through improving competence.  ∙Modern methods are used by terrorists to spread their message and create hatred online.  ∙inefficiency of the legal action taken India has so far taken an ad hoc and disorganised approach to cyber security.  ∙Despite the existence […]

INS Sindhukesari

INS Sindhukesari

INS Sindhukesari #GS 03 Science and Technology For Prelims INS Sindhukesari INS Sindhukesari is a 3,000-tonne diesel-electric submarine of the Indian Navy belonging to the Sindhughosh-class. INS Sindhukesari has become the first Indian Submarine to dock in Indonesia after travelling through the Sunda Strait. It […]

Gaganyaan

Gaganyaan

Gaganyaan #GS 03 Science and Technology For Prelims Gaganyaan The Gaganyaan Programme of ISRO is aimed to conduct the demonstration of human spaceflight to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in the short-term which will in turn lay the foundation for a sustained Indian human space exploration […]

Dickinsonia fossil in Bhimbetka

Dickinsonia fossil in Bhimbetka

Dickinsonia fossil #GS 01 Ancient History, #GS 03 Science and Technology For Prelims Dickinsonia fossil Dickinsonia is Earth’s ‘oldest animal’, dating back 570 million years which typically resembles a bilaterally symmetrical ribbed oval. Dickinsonia is believed to be an animal due to the discovery of […]

Brain-Inspired Image Sensor

Brain-Inspired Image Sensor

Brain-inspired image sensor #GS 03 Science and Technology For Prelims Brain-inspired image sensor Brain-inspired image sensor can go beyond the diffraction limit of light to detect miniscule objects such as cellular components or nanoparticles invisible to current microscopes. This was discovered by scientists at Indian […]

AstroSat: In-depth Overview

AstroSat: In-depth Overview

AstroSat #GS 03 Science and Technology For Prelims AstroSat AstroSat is the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission which is aimed at studying celestial sources in X-ray, optical and UV spectral bands simultaneously. ISRO has made an announcement of opportunity (AO) to allow scientists and researchers […]