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Science & Technology Mains: 45 questions.

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GS I 2025 15 marks 250 words

How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) and drones be effectively used along with GIS and RS techniques in locational and areal planning?

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GS III 2025 15 marks 250 words

How does nanotechnology offer significant advancements in the field of agriculture? How can this technology help to uplift the socio-economic status of farmers?

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GS III 2025 15 marks 250 words

India aims to become a semiconductor manufacturing hub. What are the challenges faced by the semiconductor industry in India? Mention the salient features of the India Semiconduct…

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GS III 2025 10 marks 150 words

The fusion energy programme in India has steadily evolved over the past few decades. Mention India's contributions to the international fusion energy project - International Therm…

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GS III 2025 10 marks 150 words

How can India achieve energy independence through clean technology by 2047? How can biotechnology play a crucial role in this endeavour?

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GS III 2024 10 marks 150 words

Describe the context and salient features of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

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GS III 2024 15 marks 250 words

What are asteroids? How real is the threat of them causing extinction of life? What strategies have been developed to prevent such a catastrophe?

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GS III 2024 10 marks 150 words

What is the present world scenario of intellectual property rights with respect to life materials? Although, India is second in the world to file patents, still only a few have be…

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GS III 2024 10 marks 150 words

What is the technology being employed for electronic toll collection on highways? What are its advantages and limitations? What are the proposed changes that will make this proces…

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GS III 2023 15 marks 250 words

What is the main task of India's third mood mission which could not be achieved in its earlier mission? List the countries that have achieved this task. Introduce the subsystems i…

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GS III 2023 10 marks 150 words

Introduce the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI). How does AI help clinical diagnosis? Do you perceive any threat to privacy of the individual in the use of AI in the healthc…

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GS III 2022 15 marks 250 words

Launched on 25th December, 2021, James Webb Space Telescope has been much in the news since then. What are its unique features which make it superior to its predecessor Space Tele…

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GS III 2022 15 marks 250 words

What is the basic principle behind vaccine development? How do vaccines work? What approaches were adopted by the Indian vaccine manufacturers to produce COVID-19 vaccines ?

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GS III 2022 10 marks 150 words

The increase in life expectancy in the country has led to newer health challenges in the community. What are those challenges and what steps need to be taken to meet them ?

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GS III 2021 15 marks 250 words

What are the research and developmental achievements in applied biotechnology/? How will these achievements help to uplift the poorer sections of the society?

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GS III 2021 15 marks 250 words

The Nobel Prize in Physics of 2014 was jointly awarded to Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura for the invention of Blue LEDs in 1990s. How has this invention impacted the everyday life of…

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GS III 2021 10 marks 150 words

How is S-400 air defence system technically superior to any other system presently available in the world?

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GS III 2020 15 marks 250 words

COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented devastation worldwide. However, technological advancements are being availed readily to win over the crisis. Give an account of how tech…

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GS III 2020 10 marks 150 words

What do you understand by nanotechnology and how is it helping in health sector?

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GS III 2019 15 marks 250 words

How is the Government of India protecting traditional knowledge of medicine from patenting by pharmaceutical companies?

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GS III 2019 15 marks 250 words

How can biotechnology help to improve the living standards of farmers?

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GS III 2019 10 marks 150 words

What is India's plan to have its own space station and how will it benefit our space programme?

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GS I 2018 10 marks 150 words

Why is Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS) needed? How does it help in navigation?

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GS III 2018 15 marks 250 words

Why is there so much activity in the field of biotechnology in our country? How has this activity benefitted the field of biopharma?

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GS III 2018 15 marks 250 words

With growing energy needs should India keep on expanding its nuclear energy programme? Discuss the facts and fears associated with nuclear energy.

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GS III 2018 10 marks 150 words

Discuss the work of 'Bose-Einstein Statistics' done by Prof. Satyendra Nath Bose and show how it revolutionized the field of Physics.

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GS I 2017 10 marks 150 words

How does the Juno Mission of NASA help to understand the origin and evolution of the Earth?

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GS III 2017 15 marks 250 words

Give an account of the growth and development of nuclear science and technology in India. What is the advantage of fast breeder reactor programme in India?

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GS III 2017 10 marks 150 words

Stem cell therapy is gaining popularity in India to treat a wide variety of medical conditions including leukaemia, Thallessemia, damaged sornea and several burns. Describe briefl…

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GS III 2017 10 marks 150 words

India has achieved remarkable successes in unmanned space missions including the Chandrayaan and Mars Orbitter Mission, but has not ventured into manned space mission, both in ter…

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GS III 2016 15 marks 250 words

Discuss India's achievements in the field of Space Science and Technology. How the application of this technology has helped India in its socio-economic development?

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GS III 2016 15 marks 250 words

Why is nanotechnology one of the key technologies of the 21st century? Describe the salient features of Indian Government's Mission on Nanoscience and Technology and the scope of…

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GS III 2015 15 marks 250 words

What do you understand by "Standard Positioning System" and "Precision positioning system" in the GPS era? Discuss the advantage India perceives from its ambitious IRNSS programme…

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GS III 2015 15 marks 250 words

What are the areas of prohibitive labour that can be sustainably managed by robots? Discuss the initiatives that can propel the research in premier research institutes for substan…

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GS III 2015 15 marks 250 words

India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) which has a database containing formatted information on more than 2 million medicinal formulations is proving a powerful weap…

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GS III 2014 12 marks 150 words

Scientific research in Indian universities is declining, because a career in science is not as attractive as are business professions, engineering or administration, and the unive…

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GS III 2014 12 marks 150 words

Can overuse and free availability of antibiotics without Doctor's prescription, be contributors to the emergence of drug-resistant diseases in India? What are the available mechan…

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GS III 2014 12 marks 150 words

In a globalized world, Intellectual Property Rights assume significance and are a source of litigation. Broadly distinguish between the terms--Copyrights, Patents and Trade Secret…

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GS III 2014 12 marks 150 words

International civil aviation laws provide all countries complete and exclusive sovereignty over the airspace above their territory. What do you understand by 'airspace' What are t…

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GS III 2013 10 marks 150 words

Bringing out the circumstances in 2005 which forced amendment to the section 3(d) in Indian Patent Law, 1970, discuss how it has been utilized by the Supreme Court in its judgemen…

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GS III 2013 10 marks 150 words

What do you understand by Fixed Dose drug Combinations (FDCs)? Discuss their merits and demerits.

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GS III 2013 10 marks 150 words

What do you understand by Umpire Decision Review System in cricket? Discuss its various components. Explain how silicone tape on the edge of a bat may fool the system?

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GS III 2013 5 marks 150 words

What is a digital signature? What does its authentication mean? Give various salient built-in features of a digital signature.

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GS III 2013 5 marks 150 words

How does the 3D printing technology work? List out the advantages and disadvantages of the technology.

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GS III 2013 5 marks 150 words

What is an FRP composite material? How are they manufactured? Discuss their application in aviation and automobile industries.

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