The first BRICS Sherpa meeting under the Presidency of Brazil was held in Curitiba, Brazil between 14-15 March 2019.T S Tirumurti, Secretary(ER) in the Ministry of External Affairs, led the Indian delegation at the BRICS Sherpa meeting. It is worth mentioning that Brazil has identified countering terrorism as one of its priority areas for BRICS […]
India yesterday decided to ground the Boeing 737 Max aircraft. Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu on March 11th said that he had directed officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to undertake safety assessment of Boeing 737 MAX (being flown by domestic carriers). He had said that the safety of the passengers is […]
A High-level delegation, led by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, will be visiting Saudi Arabia from 16th to 17th February 2019 to participate in extensive discussions with the Saudi Centre for International Strategic Partnerships (SCISP) in Riyadh. The visit will serve as a precursor to the forthcoming visit of Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al […]
India’s latest communication satellite, GSAT-31 was successfully launched from the Spaceport in French Guiana during the early hours today. The launch vehicle Ariane 5 VA-247 lifted off from Kourou Launch Base, French Guiana at 2:31 am (IST) carrying India’s GSAT-31 and Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 satellites, as scheduled. After a 42-min flight, GSAT-31 […]
India will host the 24th edition of Technology Summit with Italy as the partner country. The two-day Technology Summit will be inaugurated on 29th October, 2018 by the Union Minister for Science& Technology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan and Prof. Michele Geraci, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Development, Italy. Valedictory […]
With ISRO spy case behind him, it is the quiet life that the scientist Nambi Narayanan desires. Nambi Narayanan has no inclination to join politics and has squarely denied that he has been approached by the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to join the party and fight the election from Thiruvananthapuram. Terming the speculations as the […]
Aiming to foster growth for India’s nascent artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) ecosystem, NITI Aayog and Google have come together to work on a range of initiatives to help build the AI ecosystem across the country. A Statement of Intent (SoI) was signed to this effect by Anna Roy, Advisor, NITI Aayog and […]
Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu and Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, Zhong Shan, co- chaired the11th meeting of India-China Joint Group on Economic Relations, Trade, Science and Technology at New Delhi today. Welcoming Zhong Shan, Prabhu said that the joint group between India and China is […]
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology today announced that the much awaited Smart India Hackathon 2018 – is scheduled to be held on Mar 30 & 31, 2018 simultaneously at 28 different nodal centers across India. With 27 union Ministries and Departments and 17 State Governments having joined this grand initiative, SIH2018 is much bigger […]
The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that the technology has to be used for the betterment of humanity. He was interacting with the Officer Trainees of Indian Telecom Service 2015 Batch who are undergoing Induction Training at National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research, Innovations & Training (NTIPRIT) at Ghaziabad, here today. […]
