TNPSC GROUP – II & IIA MAINS 2022-23

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

50 MOST EXPECTED TOPICS

1. Fifth-Generation wireless communication technology

2. Nobel prize Chemistry 2022 -- Click Chemistry & its applications
3. Quantum Computing and Quantum Supremacy
4. CSIR’S IndiGen Project / Genome India Project (GIP)
5. Biofuel / National BioFuel policy / Ethanol Blending
6. Machine learning in 3D printing
7. Electric Vehicles(EVs)in India / MIRAI - Hydrogrn electric car
8. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) - Biggest challenge to Modern medicine
9. BioFuel / National BioFuel policy / Ethanol Blending
10. Cryptocurrency technology / Digital Currency vs Cyptocurrency
11. Deep Web and Dark Web
12. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
13. Supercomputer / National Supercomputing Mission
14. Potential of Gene therapy to cure life threatening diseases
15. Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
16. Scientific Social Responsibility Guidelines 2022.
17. ‘Indigenous’ Hyperloop system.
18. Blockchain Technology and India’s National Strategy on Blockchain
19. Liquid Nano Urea
20. Carbon Nanotubes
21. Deepfake Technology
22. Significance of First visual from Event Horizon Telescope.

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23. Indian Biological Data Bank (IBDC)
24. Satellite Internet Services / System
25. Web 3.0 – Possible future vision of Internet
26. India based Neutrino observatory (INO) / Hanle space observatory at Leh
27. Missiles System and Technologies involved in it / Agni Prime.
28. Cyber security and National Cyber Security Strategy
29. Space Debris, Space Tourism
30. Increase in usage of Digital utility after COVID pandemic
31. Remote sensing / NAVIC-GAGAN
32. Solar Flare and Geomagnetic Storm
33. COVID and its variants / COVID Vaccine development in India / Cervavac
/ iNCOVACC
34. Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) / Sound Navigation and Ranging
(SONAR)
35. Thirty Meter Telescope(TMT) / Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave
Observatory (LIGO) / International Liquid-Mirror Telescope (ILMT)
36. Fourth Industrial Revolution, Metaverse, Artificial intelligence (AI), virtual
reality (VR), augmented reality (VR) and Big data
37. Private sector in India’s space science and technology / Indian National
Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) / New Space India
Limited and Antrix Corporation.
38. New developments of Science based technologies in Agriculture sector—
digital agriculture, climate- smart agriculture, sustainable agriculture etc
39. Application of Nanotechnology in health sector / Role of Nanotechnology
in pollution control
40. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTS) -- India has the third most NFT companies
headquartered in the world.

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41. DRDO successfully flight tested -- Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR)
Technology
42. Ramjet, Scramjet and Dual Mode Ramjet DMRJ -- Three concepts of air-
breathing engines
43. ISRO’s Planetary Missions / Gaganyaan / Chandrayaan-2 and
Chandrayaan-3 / Recent Achievements of ISRO
44. Nuclear fusion energy / International Thermonuclear Experimental
Reactor (ITER) project
45. NASA missions -- Artemis mission/ Double Asteroid Redirection Test
(DART) Mission / Parker Solar Probe (PSP) / James Webb Space
Telescope
46. Auto-Immune Diseases : an Abnormal Immune response of the body
against substances
47. India’s first manned ocean mission ‘Samudrayaan’ / National centre for
polar and ocean research
48. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
(ICRISAT)
49. Potential of Biotechnology and its Applications / Genetically Modified
Organisms (GMOs) / GM-DMH /Genetic Modification
Technique/Approval and Regulatory mechanism of Genetically Engineered
Crops / Food fortification – key to address nutritional gap
50. Hydrogen energy – as an alternative fuel / Emerging importance of
Hydrogen fuel cell / Types of hydrogen – India’s initiatives- Green
Hydrogen / Green Policy - National Hydrogen Energy Mission- National
Hydrogen Energy roadmap

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