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Private sector can now participate in Space activities

June 24, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

India is among a handful of countries with advanced capabilities in the space sector. With these reforms, the sector will receive new energy and dynamism, to help the country leapfrog to the next stages of space activities. […]

Ministry of Mines Invites Science and Technology Project Proposals

June 22, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

Ministry of Mines vides Announcement No. Met4-14/1/2020 invites Science and Technology Project Proposals from Academic Institutions, Universities, National Institutes, and R&D Institution recognized by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, for up to 3 years duration in the following thrust areas which have a direct bearing on the mineral sector. […]

Atal Innovation Mission partners with Coal India Ltd to boost its Innovation & Entrepreneurship initiatives

June 20, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

Coal India Limited (CIL) has agreed to partner with Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog to support proactively the flagship mission’s innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives across the country. […]

R&D Portal launched for AatmaNirbhar Bharat in Mining Advancement

June 19, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

Shri Pralhad Joshi, Union Minister for Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs launched SATYABHAMA (Science and Technology Yojana for Aatmanirbhar Bharat in Mining Advancement) Portal for Science and Technology Programme Scheme of Ministry of Mines on 15th June 2020. […]

Coders turn COVID-19 fighters at TechGig Code Gladiators 2020

June 19, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 1

Elaborating on the Code Gladiators 2020 hackathons, Sanjay Goyal, Business Head, TimesJobs and TechGig said, “Every year TechGig Code Gladiators resolves to find solutions to the real-world business problems posed by the participating IT companies. This year, we found an opportunity amid the despair. […]

India will be a manufacturing hub for electric vehicles within 5yrs: Gadkari

June 19, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

Union Minister for Road Transport& Highways and MSMEs Shri Nitin Gadkari has expressed confidence that in the next five years, India will become a manufacturing hub for electric vehicles. […]

e-Office implementation in all CGST and Customs offices

June 15, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 1

Shri M. Ajit Kumar, Chairman, Central Board of Indirect Taxes, and Customs (CBIC) launched the e-Office application in over 500 CGST and Customs offices across India here today. […]

North East States to get e-office: Dr. Jitendra Singh

June 13, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

Union Minister of State for Personnel, PG and Pensions Dr. Jitendra Singh today advised to set up e-office in all 8 North Eastern States in a stipulated timeframe. […]

NHAI becomes first construction sector org. to go Fully Digital

June 12, 2020 News Desk 0

As one of the biggest reform, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has gone ‘Fully Digital’, with the launch of unique cloud based and Artificial Intelligence powered Big Data Analytics platform – Data Lake and Project Management Software […]

Kerala Startup creates mask disposal smart bin & UV light-based disinfection device

June 11, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 1

VST Mobility Solutions, a Startup headquartered at Cochin, has launched an automated mask disposal machine as part of efforts to develop products helping to combat the Covid-19. […]

3 Dept of Science & Tech institutes in Nature Index 2020

June 11, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

Nature Index released, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata is at 7th position, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore at 14th position and S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata at 30th position […]

Joint Science Communication Forum created to promote common policy & best practices

June 11, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

The Department of Science & Technology has constituted a joint Science Communication Forum with a view to facilitate interaction, cooperation, and coordination amongst various public sector science communication institutions and agencies. […]

Knowledge generation and knowledge consumption systems should be Integrated

June 11, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

Professor Ashutosh Sharma says Several existing knowledge pools like TIFAC, policy research centers, industry bodies like CII, FICCI have already studied and thought about many of the issues related to science policy, and we can invite well-considered recommendations from them. […]

Town hall Meeting for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy

June 11, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

STIP 2020 Town Hall Meet, the Track-I public & expert consultation process for the formulation of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP) 2020 will be launched by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Professor K VijayRaghavan and Secretary, DST Professor Ashutosh Sharma on June 12, 2020. […]

Private sector will be allowed to use ISRO facilities: Jitendra Singh

June 9, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 1

Union Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said here today that private sector will be allowed to use Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) facilities and other relevant assets to improve their capacities. […]

Intense collaboration required to protect ourselves and the planet: S. Ramadorai

June 9, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

Need to embrace interdisciplinary culture, power of technology and intense collaboration to protect ourselves and the planet: S. Ramadorai

Padma Bhushan S. Ramadorai delivers Lockdown Lecture on Disaster, Disruption, Digitisation, Demand and Diversity […]

CO2 reduction to useful chemicals and fuels to start on a large scale

June 9, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

The research was carried out by Prof. Sebastian C Peter and his group from the New Chemistry Unit at JNCASR. The startup company Breathe was started from the generous funding from DST Nano Mission Project and will focus on scaling up the technology to the pilot level and then commercialization. […]

New Process found to synthesize crystalline rubrene used in E-Skin

June 7, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

Scientists at the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science & Technology, have found a new process for synthesizing crystalline rubrene, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-based thin film which can be useful for the development of optoelectronic devices and also for preparation of Electronic Skin (E-Skin). […]

New Technology for Transparent Screens by CeNS

June 7, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

In recent years, the demand of transparent conducting glasses (TCG) with high light transparency has tremendously increased due to its wide range of applications in optoelectronic devices such as smart windows, solar cells, touch screen/ touch sensors, and so on. […]

CeNS develops low-cost catalyst for hydrogen generation from water

June 5, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

CeNS develops low-cost catalyst for hydrogen generation from water

Hydrogen is considered as the future of clean and sustainable energy

It can be generated from water and produces water on energy generation without any carbon footprint […]

ARCI develops new environment friendly way to shape ceramics

June 5, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

ARCI develops new environment friendly way to shape ceramics through 3D printing with Methyl Cellulose
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CSIR-CMERI develop new indigenous ventilator

June 4, 2020 News Desk 0

Researchers at Durgapur-based Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) have indigenously developed a ventilator amid rising cases of COVID-19 […]

Simple but innovative disinfection & sanitization solutions selected in NIF’s Challenge COVID-19 Competition

June 2, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

National Innovation Foundation – India (NIF), an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), has recently supported two innovative disinfection solutions by common people which were received as a response to its Challenge COVID-19 Competition (C3). […]

Consultation process for new Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (STIP) initiated

June 2, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (Office of PSA) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) have jointly initiated a decentralized, bottom-up, and inclusive process for the formulation of a new national Science Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP 2020). […]

Artificial Intelligence to be the norm among School Students

May 30, 2020 News Desk 0

India’s AI approach should be of inclusion and empowerment of human being by supplementing growth and development rather than making human beings less relevant […]

Surat takes key IT initiatives in COVID -19 management and containment

May 30, 2020 IndiaTies News Desk 0

SMC has developed SMC COVID-19 Tracker System which includes a web portal and mobile application named “SMC COVID-19 Tracker” to track people who have abroad or interstate travel history and persons who have come in direct contact with positive COVID-19 individuals. […]

Hackathon soon for computational drug discovery by Min S&T

May 28, 2020 News Desk 0

Science and Technology in finding solutions to combat COVID-19. ‘Hackathon’ for computational drug discovery is being undertaken: Professor K. Vijay Raghavan […]

The success of Digital India Initiatives is a Hope for many

May 24, 2020 News Desk 1

Secretary General of the Commonwealth Ms. Patricia Scotland has expressed her appreciation for this initiative and has called it as a new hope for other developing and aspiring countries of the Commonwealth. […]

IIT Guwahati discovers new ways to prevent memory loss due to Alzheimer

May 21, 2020 India Ties 0

IIT Guwahati has worked on out-of-the-box ideas that can help prevent or reduce short-term memory losses associated with Alzheimer’s disease. […]

SCTIMST plans commercial launch of Agappe Chitra Magna for COVID 19

May 21, 2020 India Ties 1

Agappe Chitra Magna, a magnetic nanoparticle-based RNA extraction kit for use during testing for detection of COVID-19 developed by (SCTIMST) – Trivandrum, […]

NIPER Guwahati produces 3D Printed products with HAL

May 15, 2020 News Desk 0

NIPER-Guwahati designs innovative 3D products to fight COVID-19. Manufacturing of these products being done in collaboration with HAL […]

Rajnath Singh approves Rs 400 crore Defence Testing Infrastructure Scheme

May 15, 2020 India Ties 0

Rajnath Singh has approved the launch of Defence Testing Infrastructure Scheme (DTIS) with an outlay of Rs 400 crore for creating state of the art testing infrastructure for this sector. […]

Rajnath Singh calls for India to become a net exporter of technology

May 11, 2020 India Ties 0

Rajnath Singh stressed the need for India to become self-reliant & “net exporter of technology”. He said scientists of (DRDO) on occasion of National Technology Day […]

Technology Centres Manufacture micro parts of COVID-19 kits

May 11, 2020 India Ties 0

MSME is manufacturing critical parts of Real-Time Quantitative Micro PCR System for AMTZ, Vishakhapatnam. This machine will give COVID 19 test results in less than 1 hour […]

CSIR-NAL, Bengaluru develop BiPAP Non-Invasive Ventilator “SwasthVayu” in 36 Days

May 11, 2020 India Ties 0

CSIR -NAL Bangalore, a constituent of lab of CSIR has developed a Non Invasive BiPAP Ventilator in a record time of 36 days to treat COVID-19 patients. […]

India is well-poised to reboot the economy through S&T: Dr. Harsh Vardhan

May 11, 2020 India Ties 0

Dr. Harsh Vardhan said Reboot the Economy through Science, Technology and Research Translations’, organised to celebrate the National Technology Day. […]

DRDO lab develops automated UV systems to sanitise electronic gadgets, papers & currency notes

May 10, 2020 India Ties 0

(DRDO) premier lab, RCI, has developed an automated contactless UVC sanitisation cabinet, called Defence Research Ultraviolet Sanitiser (DRUVS). […]

Coir Board signs an (MoU) with IIT-Madras

May 7, 2020 India Ties 0

Coir Board signed an (MoU) with the IIT-Madras, to establish a “COE for the application of Coir exclusively or in combination with other natural fibers”. […]

DG, CSIR launches Compendium of Indian Technologies for Combating COVID-19

May 6, 2020 India Ties 0

A “Compendium of Indian Technologies for Combating COVID-19 (Tracing, Testing and Treating)” prepared by National Research Development Corporation. […]

DST INSPIRE Faculty develops nanomaterials energy storage application

May 6, 2020 India Ties 0

DST INSPIRE Faculty develops nanomaterials having energy storage application & optical sensors for water pollution control […]

Aarogya Setu IVRS service implemented to people having feature phone or landline

May 6, 2020 India Ties 0

Aarogya Setu Mobile App is developed by Ministry of Electronics. It enables people to assess themselves the risk of their catching the Corona Virus infection. […]

CSIR IGIB and TATA Sons sign an MoU to develop a kit for rapid diagnosis of COVID-19

May 5, 2020 India Ties 0

May 05: CSIR’s constituent lab, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) and TATA Sons signed a MoU for licensing […]

India is placed 3rd among countries in R&D expenditure & scientific publications

May 2, 2020 India Ties 0

May 01: India’s gross expenditure in R&D has tripled between 2008 & 2018 driven mainly by the Govt sector and […]

CSIR Launches Kisan Sabha App to Connect Farmers to Supply Chain and Freight Transportation Management System

May 1, 2020 India Ties 0

In the present situation of COVID 19, farmers are looking for help in their harvest reaching the market, seed/ fertilizer […]

3.25 lac use Janaushadhi Sugam Mobile App to order medicines

April 30, 2020 News Desk 0

Amid nationwide lockdown Over 325000 people are using Janaushadhi Sugam Mobile App to order medicines […]

Union Minister Gadkari launches Bank of Schemes, Ideas, Innovation & Research Portal on MSMEs

April 30, 2020 India Ties 0

Portal on MSME Bank of Ideas, Innovation and Research to prove of great transformational importance for existing and aspiring Micro, […]

Ministry of Shipping revamps its website

April 30, 2020 India Ties 0

April 30: Ministry of Shipping has revamped its website shipmin.gov.in and launched today. The new website is based on open source technology and […]

The future of Education Technology during and post COVID19

April 28, 2020 News Desk 0

Many institutions are moving towards seamless learning for their students. They are looking out for ways to use technology, not only as a medium of management but also as a medium for communication, execution and also for transportation […]

20th Edition of IndiaSoft 2020, Intl ICT exhibition & conference kicked off

March 5, 2020 India Ties 0

The IT Exports from Telangana last year grew 17 to 18% as against national average growth of 8%: Errabelli Dayakar […]