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Key Features:

Comprehensive coverage of all major areas of science and technology today

Balances global and national focus

Scientific basis of key topics explained concisely

Takes an integrated multidimensional approach to technology including political, economic and ethical issues

Emerging areas like wireless communication, latest generation of WMD's, NANO technologies etc covered

Provides guidance on the topic for all stages of the civil services examination from the preliminary to the interview

Comprehensive lists of key terminologies

Table of Content:

PART I: GENERAL ASPECT


1. Role of Science and Technology in India


2. Science and Technology in India


3. Institutional Structure for Science and Technology in India


4. Science and Technology Education and Research in India

PART II: ENERGY


5. Energy Sector and Policy


6. Fossil Energy Resources


7. Electric Power


8. Non-Conventional Sources of Energy


9. Energy Conservation

PART III: NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY


10.Nuclear Energy


11.Nuclear Fusion


12.Non-Energy Aspects of Nuclear Technology


13.India's Nuclear Program

PART IV: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY


14.Computer Technologies


15.Computer Software


16.Computer Networks


17.Security Issues in IT


18.Supercomputer Technology


19.Recent Advances in IT


20.IT Industry in India


21.IT and Government in India


22.Communication Technology


23.Wireless Communication


24.Telecommunications in India


25.Television and Entertainment Technologies

PART VI: SPACE


26.Space Technology


27.Space Programme in India

PART VII: MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY


28.Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies


29.Superconductivity


30.Laser and Photonics

PART VIII: ENVIRONMENT


31.Global Environmental Issues


32.Environment and India


33.Earth Sciences in India


34.Meteorological Science

PART IX: DEFENCE


35.Nuclear and other Weapons of Mass Destruction


36.Defence Technology in India <...