modern science and technology has a great effect on our dail

以下是出自BBC的句子,应该是纯正英语,动词用了has,看来science and technology合在一起做单数处理.
To aid the development of science in modern world, bureaucracy and government regulation has been relaxed, and Indian science and technology has moved in a new way.
BBC: NEWS | South Asia | Science 'can lift India's poor'