Study Guide · Chapter 14
Science & Technology
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- ICAR-NIHSAD, Bhopal developed India's first indigenous vaccine against African Swine Fever.
- PM Modi inaugurated the AI-powered 'Param Pragya' supercomputing facility at IIT Delhi's Sonipat campus.
- Sophie Adenot became the first French woman to perform a spacewalk outside the ISS.
- University of Delhi scientists (led by Prof. S.D. Biju) discovered three new cascade frog species in Northeast India.
- A new freshwater catfish species, 'Pseudolaguvia khairii', was identified in Odisha's Budhabalanga river.
- Kerala researchers discovered a new seahorse species, 'Hippocampus amandavincentae'.
- The Himalayan plant 'Impatiens nimspurjae' was named after mountaineer Nirmal 'Nimsdai' Purja.
- CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology discovered a new sunflower-family plant species, 'Doronicum sanctum', in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.
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