VSHORADS missile
DRDO successfully flight tested VSHORADS from a ground-based portable launcher
- Very Short-Range Air Defence System missile
- Indigenously developed system of MANPADS (manportable air defence system)
- Developed by – Research Centre Imarat (RCI) in collaboration with other DRDO laboratories and Indian Industry Partners
- Novel technologies used – Miniaturized Reaction Control System (RCS) and integrated avionics
- Propelled by a dual-thrust solid motor and is meant for neutralizing low-altitude aerial threats at short ranges
Vikramaditya Vedic Clock
Recently, inaugurated world’s 1st vedic clock, based on Indian ‘panchang’ calculations
- Displays information related to Vedic Hindu Panchang, planetary position, Muhurat, astrological calculations and predictions and also indicate IST and GMT
- It calculates time based on 1 sunrise to the next
- Indian system of time calculation is the oldest, subtle, pure, error-free, authentic and reliable method in the world
- Clock is an attempt to restore the tradition of Indian time calculation
Harit Nauka Initiative
Launched India’s 1st indigenous green hydrogen fuel cell inland waterway vessel
- Water vessel manufactured by Cochin Shipyard under Harit Nauka Initiative
- Ministry – Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
- Aim – At laying out Central Government’s focus on bringing about the shift of inland vessels to greener technologies.
- Focus areas – Promotion of alternative clean fuels, creation of green ecosystem, promoting R&D and strengthening institutional capacity
Sea Dragons (Sea Lizards)
Researchers found a colony of sea dragons and other planktonic species at Visakhapatnam coast
- Marine iguanas – The world’s only lizards that feed in the sea
- Stunning blue-shaded creatures float and move with the wind like their prey and are a type of aeolid nudibranch slugs or snails
- But unlike other snails, their foot helps in floating instead of sticking to surfaces and moving
- Feeds on blue button and Portuguese man o’ war species and store their stinging cells in cerrata (the whip like structures on the side)
- They use the stinging cells to attack the predators or any organism that approaches them