New Delhi, April 9, 2021: Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have granted conditional exemption to Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI) for surveying in coalfield areas of Coal India Ltd. As per the permission, the drones will be deployed for acquisition of data for monitoring of Mapping […]
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Supernova explosion traced to one of the hottest kind of stars
New Delhi, April 8, 2021: Indian astronomers have tracked a rare supernova explosion and traced it to one of the hottest kind of stars called Wolf–Rayet stars or WR stars. The rare Wolf–Rayet stars are highly luminous objects a thousand times that of the Sun and have intrigued astronomers for long. They are massive stars […]
Railways complete the Arch closure of the iconic Chenab Bridge, World’s highest Railway Bridge
New Delhi, April 6, 2021: Indian Railways today completed the Arch closure of the iconic Chenab Bridge. Chenab Bridge, the world’s highest railway bridge, part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link project (USBRL), set an important construction milestone yesterday with the completion of the steel arch of the iconic Chenab Bridge. This was one of the most […]
INSPIRE Faculty fellow modifying tiny dots for fabricating optical materials useful for optical sensors
New Delhi, April 5, 2021: Dr. Satyapriya Bhandari, from the Department of Chemistry, University of North Bengal, West Bengal, is fascinated by tiny nanoscale crystals which, when hit by ultraviolet light, emits light of multiple colours. This recipient of the INSPIRE Faculty fellowship instituted by the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India is using chemical […]
DRDO lab develops light weight Bullet Proof Jacket
New Delhi, April 1, 2021: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) lab Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE), Kanpur has developed light weight Bullet Proof Jacket (BPJ) weighing 9.0 kilogrammes, meeting the qualitative requirements of Indian Army. The Front Hard Armour Panel (FHAP) jacket was tested at Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL), […]
Astrome develops deep-tech for reliable low-cost internet services to rural areas
New Delhi, March 30, 2021: Astrome, a women-led startup, has developed an innovative wireless product that gives fibre like bandwidth at fraction of cost of fibre to help telecom operators deliver reliable low-cost internet services to suburban and rural areas. Reaching internet access to remote places in countries like India is difficult because laying fibre […]
DD Free Dish cross 40 million Household
New Delhi, March 28, 2021: DD Free Dish has shown its strong growth trajectory and its base has crossed an estimated 40 million subscribers according to the EY FICCI Media Entertainment Report 2021. The growth has been attributed to less expensive television sets, economic issues, launch of the DD Retro Channel and return of big broadcasters […]
Artificial photosynthesis to provide solutions for carbon capture and conversion
New Delhi, March 25, 2021: Scientists have found a method to mimic nature’s own process of reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, namely photosynthesis, to capture excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This artificial photosynthesis (AP) harnesses solar energy and converts the captured carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide (CO), which can be used as a […]
New state of the materials discovered that can lead to better, tunable, controllable quantum technologies
New Delhi, March 24, 2021: Scientists have discovered a new exotic, strange state of materials in contact with an environment that alters its physical properties in the presence of an electromagnetic field, leading to better quantum technologies, which are tunable and controllable as per the user requirements. They have shown that, in an external electromagnetic […]
Scientists develop molecular sensor that will aid in identifying new drugs of therapeutic value
New Delhi, March 23, 2021: Researchers have recently developed a molecular sensor, which can identify cancer drugs by detecting how such chemicals modify microtubules inside living cells. Microtubules are part of the cytoskeleton, a structural network within the cell’s cytoplasm, and they alter in response to several chemicals. Understanding tubulin modifications has remained a challenge till […]