Scientists develop high-performance transistors and circuits useful for space and defense applications

New Delhi, January 3, 2022: Indian researchers have developed a high-performance industry-standard model for Aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) with simple design procedures which can be used to make high-power Radio Frequency (RF) circuits owing to its high breakdown voltage. Radio Frequency circuits include amplifiers and switches, which are used in wireless transmission […]

Air pollution in parts of central-western India and north India increased during the pandemic in contrast to the general trend

New Delhi, January 02, 2022: Reduction of economic activities during the pandemic-related lockdown had resulted in decrease of air pollution in most parts of India, but satellite observations show that parts of central-western India and north India showed an increase in pollution in contrast to the general trend. Scientists have identified thatregions in the central-western […]

Scientists trace first clue to understand transient high energy pulses from magnetars several thousand times to that of the Sun

New Delhi, December 26, 2021: Scientists have found the first clues to understand violent short duration flares from a compact star of rare category called magnetars located thirteen million light years away. These compact stars with the most intense magnetic field known, of which only thirty have been spotted so far in our galaxy, suffer […]

Number of educational institutions run by minority communities in India

New Delhi, December 23, 2021: The National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) has granted Minority Status Certificate to 13,602 Minority Education Institutions, which includes 14 institutions run by the management belonging to Parsi Community, 5,153 institutions by Muslim community and 7,550 institutions by Christian community, 300 institutions run by the management belonging to Sikh […]

Swarnajayanti Fellow from CDRI probing mitochondrion of malaria parasite for hints into alternative drug targets

New Delhi, December 20, 2021: Dr. Niti Kumar, Scientist at the CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, a Swarnajayanti fellowship awardee of 2020-21, along with her research group, is trying to identify proteins which influence the shape-function of the single mitochondrion that the malaria parasite harbors as well as how it undergoes repair. Understanding these processes […]

Climate Change makes children vulnerable to infectious diseases: Study

New Delhi, December 17, 2021: Climate change is a challenge for us all. Scientists have now found that climate parameters accounted for 9-18% of the total infectious disease cases in a study to probe the association between climate parameters and infectious diseases in children under 16-years-of-age in Varanasi-city in central Indo-Gangetic Plane. Climate change driven […]

Rural population of Rameswaram empowered through seaweed cultivation & processing

New Delhi, December 14, 2021: The life of  Mutha Muthuvel Sambai from Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, has changed for good through training in seaweed cultivation and farming and exposure to the market demands of seaweed. Cutting out the role of the middlemen, she is now directly selling seaweed cultivation products to the entrepreneurs, thereby increasing her income […]