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  Two DRDO laboratories were involved in the development of SAHAYAK-NG container along the industry partner M/s Avantel for GPS integration. SAHAYAK-NG is an advanced version of SAHAYAK Mk I. The newly developed GPS aided air dropped container is having the capability to carry a payload that weighs upto 50 kg and can be dropped from heavy aircraft. Sahayak-NG has a Satellite-based Reporting Terminal (SBRT ), which provides its precise GPS location enabling the ship in distress to pick up critical stores

Foundation stone laid down Virtually on 29/12/2020.  Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, has sanctioned ₹135 crore to IIT-H under National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems to set up a Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation and Data Acquisition Systems (UAVs and RoVs). The Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation Systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Remotely Operated Vehicles at IIT-H, known as ‘TiHAN Foundation’ was incorporated as a Section-8 company in June 2020.

 Comprehensive Action report aims at creating sense of Scientific Social Responsibility. TIFAC, founded in 1988, an Autonomous body under Department of Science and Technology

 First reported to WHO on December 14. Increased Virulence. India needs mass genomic surveillance for that India has formed a consortium of leading genomics labs to make genome surveillance a routine continuous exercise which can shore up India's defenses against this pandemic and those of future.

Launched, Coordinated by Department of Biotechnology along with MoH&FW , ICMR, CSIR. A im is to monitor the genomic variations in the SARS-CoV-2 on a regular basis through a multi-laboratory network. It is c omprising 10 labs namely DBT-NIBMG Kalyani, DBT-ILS Bhubaneswar, ICMR-NIV Pune, DBT-NCCS Pune, CSIR-CCMB Hyderabad, DBT-CDFD Hyderabad, DBT-InSTEM/ NCBS Bengaluru, NIMHANS Bengaluru, CSIR-IGIB Delhi, and NCDC Delhi. the preliminary  study indicates that the variant is unlikely  to cause increased risk of reinfection,  the new variant might not spread wildly here  due to difficulty in finding susceptible persons since 40-50% of urban India particularly in Tier 1 & 2 cities and about 30% people across India would have already been infected. India has so far sequenced around 6300 genomes of this virus in contrast UK has nearly 157000 genome sequenced even when their cases are around quarter of cases in India. It will help in boosting  India's Defe...

L aunched in June 2020 amid the  pandemic . It is a micro-credit facility that provides street vendors a collateral-free loan of Rs 10,000 with low rates of interest for a period of one year. the scheme – part of the AtmaNirbhar Bharat package – has received 31,64,367 applications from across the country (except from S ikkim, which is officially not taking part in it). Why Launched?   nationwide lockdown left daily wage workers and  street vendors  out of work.   In the long term , it aims at establishing a credit score for the vendors as well as creating a digital record of their socio-economic status , so that they can avail the Central government schemes later. The scheme also attempts to  formalise the informal sector of the economy and  provide them safety nets and  a means of availing loans in the future. This loan charges below 12% rate of interest, and creates a credit score of the vendors, so that if they repay the loan on ...