New Delhi, May 5, 2021: Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan yesterday remotely flagged off the first supply of UCO (Used Cooking Oil) based Biodiesel blended Diesel under the EOI Scheme from Indian Oil’s Tikrikalan Terminal, Delhi. Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas Tarun Kapoor and Chairman, IndianOil S M […]
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Telecom Department gives go-ahead for 5G Technology and Spectrum Trials
New Delhi, May 4, 2021: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India, approved today, permissions to Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) for conducting trials for use and applications of 5G technology. Ministry of Communications also stated that the applicant TSPs include Bharti Airtel Ltd., Reliance JioInfocomm Ltd., Vodafone Idea Ltd. and MTNL. These TSPs have tied […]
Covid outbreak: Postponement of all offline examinations in May 2021
New Delhi, May 4, 2021: Due to second wave of Covid – 19, Ministry of Education urged for the postponement of all offline examinations scheduled in the month of May, 2021 said Ministry of Education. In a letter addressed to all the heads of centrally funded institutions, Secretary, Higher Education Amit Khare has urged the […]
Scientists working on SUTRA model for charting trajectory of COVID-19
New Delhi, May 3, 2021: Following is the statement of the scientists working on the SUTRA model: We, the scientists working on the SUTRA model for charting the trajectory of COVID-19, would like to clearly point out some facts related to predictions of our mathematical model, especially since some of these have been misunderstood and […]
Oxygen Express to deliver a record 250 MT of LMO to Delhi, Telangana, UP
New Delhi, May 2, 2021: Accelerating its pace of delivering liquid medical oxygen to various states across the country, Indian Railways’ Oxygen Express has delivered 813 MT of LMO in 56 tankers to various states across the country. 14 Oxygen Expresses have already completed their journey and 5 more loaded Oxygen Expresses are on the […]
New high-yielding and pest-resistant variety of soybean can help boost countrywide production
New Delhi, May 1, 2021: Indian Scientists have developed a high-yielding and pest-resistant variety of soybean. This newly developed variety called MACS 1407 is suitable for cultivation in the states of Assam, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and North-Eastern states and its seeds will be made available to farmers for sowing during the 2022 Kharif season. […]
IIT Bombay shows how to solve Oxygen shortage problem
New Delhi, April 30, 2021: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has come up with a creative and ingenious solution to addressing the medical oxygen shortage needed for the treatment of COVID-19 patients in the country. The pilot project which has been tested successfully relies on a simple technological hack: conversion of PSA (Pressure […]
India to import 4,50,000 vials of Remdesivir, first Consignment of 75000 vials reaching today
New Delhi, April 30, 2021: The Government of India has started importing the vital drug Remdesivir from other countries to ease out the shortage of Remdesivir in the country. The first Consignment of 75000 vials will reach India today. HLL Lifecare Ltd, a Government of India owned company has ordered 4,50,000 vials of Remdesivir from […]
DRDO develops Single Crystal Blades for helicopter engine application
New Delhi, April 29, 2021: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed single crystal blades technology and supplied 60 of these blades to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) as part of their indigenous helicopter development program for helicopter engine application. It is part of a program taken up by Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL), a […]
India’s Organic food products exports rise by more than 50 per cent in 2020-21
New Delhi, April 28, 2021: India’s export of Organic food products rose by 51% in terms of value (USD Million), to USD 1040 million (Rs 7078 crores) during financial year 2020-21 compared to the previous fiscal (2019-20). In terms of quantity, the exports of organic food products grew by 39% to 888,179 metric tonne (MT) […]