0 www.journalsofindia.com January to July 2021 SCIENCE & TECH ............................................................................................................................................................... 6 1. REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMME(RLV-TD) ................................................. 6 2. GAGANYAAN MISSION ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 3. MARS ORBITER MISSION (MOM) ..................................................................................................................................... 6 4. CHANDRAYAAN MISSION................................................................................................................................................. 7 5. SOLAR MISSION ............................................................................................................................................................... 8 6. ARTEMIS ACCORD ............................................................................................................................................................ 9 7. NATIONAL MISSION ON INTERDISCIPLINARY CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEM (NMICPS) ....................................................... 10 8. SMART ANTI-AIRFIELD WEAPON (SAAW) ...................................................................................................................... 10 9. AQUAPONICS ................................................................................................................................................................. 11 10. DATA SONIFICATION ................................................................................................................................................. 11 11. SEED BALL TECHNIQUE .............................................................................................................................................. 12 12. TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE DIGITAL LIBRARY (TKDL) ............................................................................................... 12 13. INDIAN SARS-COV-2 GENOMICS CONSORTIUM (INSACOG) ...................................................................................... 12 14. DRAFT NATIONAL SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION POLICY ...................................................................... 13 15. NEW REGULATIONS OF FSSAI ON TRANS FATS ......................................................................................................... 14 16. H5N8 SUBTYPE OF INFLUENZA A VIRUS .................................................................................................................... 14 17. NATIONAL ATOMIC TIMESCALE ................................................................................................................................ 15 18. VIGYAN JYOTI AND ENGAGE WITH SCIENCE (VIGYAN PRASAR) ................................................................................ 16 19. GENDER ADVANCEMENT FOR TRANSFORMING INSTITUTIONS (GATI) ..................................................................... 16 20. INDIA INNOVATION INDEX 2020 ............................................................................................................................... 17 21. WHAT IS SEROPOSITIVITY AND SERO POSITIVITY SURVEY? ...................................................................................... 17 22. CATALYTIC DEWAXING: ............................................................................................................................................. 18 23. INTERNATIONAL THERMONUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL REACTOR (ITER): .................................................................... 18 24. AUGMENTED REALITY VS VIRTUAL REALITY: ............................................................................................................. 19 25. GLOBAL INFLUENZA DATA INITIATIVE (GISAID): ........................................................................................................ 19 26. SPIKE PROTEIN OF SARS-COV-2: ................................................................................................................................ 20 27. SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO TACTICAL (SDR-TAC):.................................................................................................... 20 28. CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING REFERENCE STATIONS (CORS) NETWORK: .................................................................. 21 29. BLAZAR ...................................................................................................................................................................... 21 30. NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ELIMINATION PROGRAMME (NTEP) .............................................................................. 22 31. OPEN-RAN ................................................................................................................................................................. 22 32. CURIOSITY ROVER MARS ........................................................................................................................................... 23 33. ARYABHATTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCES (ARIES) ........................................................... 23 34. VERTICAL LAUNCH SHORT RANGE SURFACE TO AIR MISSILE (VL-SRSAM) ................................................................ 23 35. CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS (CDFD) .............................................................................. 24 36. COVIRAP .................................................................................................................................................................... 24 37. NAVARITIH ................................................................................................................................................................. 25 38. DRAFT SPACE BASED REMOTE SENSING POLICY OF INDIA - 2020: ........................................................................... 25 39. PERSEVERANCE ROVER: ............................................................................................................................................ 26 40. DRAFT HUMANS IN SPACE POLICY FOR INDIA, 2021: ............................................................................................... 26 1 www.journalsofindia.com January to July 2021 41. ARJUN MAIN BATTLE TANK (MK-1A): ........................................................................................................................ 27 42. GPS BASED TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEM ..................................................................................................................... 27 43. 2001 FO32 ASTEROID ................................................................................................................................................ 28 44. SOLID FUEL DUCTED RAMJET (SFDR) ......................................................................................................................... 28 45. INTERNATIONAL LUNAR RESEARCH STATION ........................................................................................................... 29 46. FLOATING SOLAR PLANT IN TELANGANA .................................................................................................................. 29 47. LUNAR POLAR EXPLORATION (LUPEX) MISSION ....................................................................................................... 29 48. SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR): ........................................................................................................................ 30 49. RAMAN THERMOMETRY FOR MONITORING OF POWER TRANSMISSION CABLES ................................................... 30 50. SUPERMASSIVE MOVING BLACK HOLE ...................................................................................................................... 31 51. EQUINE HERPES VIRUS .............................................................................................................................................. 32 52. BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE (BARC) ........................................................................................................... 32 53. GENOME MAPPING OF INDIAN OCEAN BY NIO ........................................................................................................ 33 54. TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION REPORT 2021 ....................................................................................................... 34 55. NEW BACTERIA FOUND ON INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS) ......................................................................... 34 56. REFRIGERATION SYSTEM PUSA-FSF ........................................................................................................................... 34 57. DISCOVERY OF FOUR NEW PARTICLES AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER (LHC) ..................................................... 35 58. OLA LARGEST ELECTRIC TWO WHEELER PLANT ON FAST TRACK .............................................................................. 35 59. MULTI-BEAM E-BAND PRODUCT GIGA MESH ........................................................................................................... 35 60. NEW 'DOUBLE MUTANT' COVID-19........................................................................................................................... 36 61. ARIES-DEVASTHAL FAINT OBJECT SPECTROGRAPH & CAMERA (ADFOSC) ...............................................................