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(Mains Hub) Special Materials for GS Mains 2012: "Science & Technology"
Special Materials for GS Mains
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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What do you understand by the term Neutrinos? Bring out the position of India in Neutrino Physics
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Bring out the appication of Neutrino technoogy
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India-based Neutrion Observatory (INO) project
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What do you understand by HapMap Project? Why HapMap Project has bee in news recenty?
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The first-ever Census of Marine ife (CoM)
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Differentiate cruise missie from baistic missie
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What do you understand by the term breeder reactor? Assess the contributions made by the Fast Breeder
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Test Reactor at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kapakkam Bring out Homi
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Bhabhas vision for the country’s nucear eectricity programme,
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Rustom
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What do you understand by In vitro fertiisation (IVF)?
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What is graphene Bring out the uses of grapheme
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What are geneticay modified (GM) organisms and GM foods? Do you think GM foods are safe?
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Bring out the arguments with reference to abeing of GM foods Bring out the operationa issues associated with abeing of GM foods Coud seeding
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Bug
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An aerostat
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Agni-II Prime
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What is Cryogenics? Bring out the uses of cryogenics
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FOSS
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Middeware
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What do you understand by G or rd generation mobie teecommunications? When it was introduced in India?
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Dragon capsue
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Mycopasma aboratorium or Creation of first sef-repicating synthetic ife
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‘Rosetta Stone’ For T-dwarf Stars
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TERC gene
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Anchor Babies
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Truvada
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Avandia
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Ununseptium ooxcie
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Enter Square
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Googe’s new Prius
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Martin Jetpack
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Edison
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Trace the origin of Word Wide Web
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Resourcesat-
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What is S bard spectrum? Bring out the importance of S band spectrum
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What do you understand by the term Geospatia Technoogy? Bring out the detais regarding Nationa
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Geospatia Data Authority
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India’s third power reactor spent fue reprocessing pant
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Transgenesis
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What do you understand by Pusars?
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Eucid
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What do you understand by Dark energy?
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The James Webb Space Teescope
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The Mars experiment
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DNA profiing
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Phishing
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What is a nucear submarine? Bring out the performance advantages of nucear submarines over “conventiona” (typicay diese-eectric) submarines How far India has deveoped this technoogy?
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What do you understand, by the term “Coud computing” Bring out the uses of Coud computing
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What do you understand by the term Carbon capture and storage? Bring out the initiatives taken by the Government of India towards Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
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What do you understand by the term Reprocessing of Nucear fue? Write about the Reprocessing accord signed between India and the US Bring out the significance of this accord
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What do you understand by the term Custer Munitions? Bring out the issues associated with custer Munitions Write about The Convention on Custer Munitions
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What is Internationa Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC)? Bring out the India’s contribution to ICGC Write a short note on IMEI number
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What do you understand by the term New Dehi metao-beta-Iactamase (NDM-) Write about superbug
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Write about Bhuvan and its features
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What is AWACS? Bring out the uses of AWACS Write about India’s AWACS
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Write a short note on India’s Aircraft Carriers What are the strategic needs to have Aircraft carriers?
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What is GAAN? Bring out the uses of GAGAN
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Write a short note on Goba Navigation Sateite System (GNSS)
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What do you understand by the term Advanced Technoogy Vesse (ATV) Project? Bring out the importance of ATV project
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What is Oceansat-II? Bring out the uses of Oceansat-II
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What do you understand by the term Nucear triad? Do you think India is N-triad?
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Write a short note on Indian human spacefight program How far India is prepared for this programme?
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Chandrayaan- 2
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What do you understand by the term Traditiona Knowedge Digita ibrary (TKD) bring out the importance of TKD with a reevant exampe EDGE
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What do you understand by the term Biometrics? How a biometric system can operate?
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Garima
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What do you understand by the term ‘RISORINE”?
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What do you understand by Vaxifu-S?
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Give a brief account of the arge Hadron Coider (HC) and its recent deveopments
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Write about , Genomes Project
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Space teescope Panck and its recent achievement
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Write a note on StudSat Give a brief account of Nano, Micro and Pico sateites Bring out efforts taken by the ISRO to coeges and universities to study space technoogy
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Write about CARTOSAT B
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Give a brief account of Thirty Metre Teescope (TMT) project
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Write about Indian Baistic Missie Defense Program
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What is Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDO)? Bring out the recent achievement of OSDD
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What is CD project? Bring out the achievements of CD project
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“INS Vikrant”
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Write a note on Fiber-optic communication
 
        