Solar power tariffs in India have plunged to a new low of Rs 2.44 per unit. Solar energy is cheaper than coal-based electricity in India, for the first time ever; the average price charged by NTPC for electricity generated by its coal-fired plants is Rs. 3.20. India’s solar energy generation capacity continues to rise as it has added more than 10GW of solar capacity in the last three years - sta...
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IIT Kharagpur Develops Smarter Ambulatory Healthcare Monitoring
AmbuSens, technology developed in the SWAN lab of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT- Kharagpur, is capable of wireless monitoring of various physiological parameters like ECG, heart-rate, temperature and blood-pressure, utilizing a unique mechanism to preserve patients’ data confidentiality while simultaneously using the analytic and computing power of cloud computing. It...
Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors to Boost India’s Nuclear Energy
India’s nuclear power sector gets a boost under the flagship “Make in India” projects, with Cabinet giving approval, on Wednesday 17 May 2017, for construction of 10 units of India’s indigenous Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) having total installed capacity of 7000 MW; with the commitment to prioritize use of clean power in India’s energy mix, as part of low-carbon growt...
Katra-Banihal Rail Project to have World’s Tallest Bridge & Asia’s Longest Tunnel
Katra-Banihal Rail Project, the toughest in the India’s engineering history, involving construction of 27 bridges-including the tallest rail bridge in the world, and 37 tunnels-including one-more than 12 km tunnel-the longest in Asia; offering all-weather connectivity, will now hopefully become functional by 2021. This rail link will enable trains to operate between New Delhi an...
India Gifts South Asia Satellite for Inclusive Development of Region
GSAT-9, the South Asia Satellite, India's gift to its neighbors, was launched by GSLV-F09 on Friday, May 05, 2017 from the Second Launch Pad (SLP) at Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR (SDSC SHAR), Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh and injected into the orbit in a flawless flight; with the primary objective to provide various communication applications in Ku-band with coverage over South Asian countrie...
Disaster Risk Mitigation Initiatives to Make India Resilient by 2030
“Disaster Risk Reduction for Sustainable Development: Making India resilient by 2030”, was the theme of second meeting of National Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction(NPDRR), that was inaugurated by its Head, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, on 15 May, 2017. NPDRR is a multi-stakeholders National Platform for sharing the experiences in disaster management and for making a coll...
International Space Station a rare example of American and Russian International Cooperation
Roscosmos launched Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft,at 0713 GMT from its Launch Pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 20, 2017, the first two-man crew launch to International Space Station (ISS) in over a decade; with veteran Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA rookie Jack Fischer.Manned launches to the ISS usually involve three crew members.
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Melting Glaciers and Increasing Global Warming
The abnormal rise in global warming with temperature of the earth increasing by 2 degree, thereby accelerating pace of melting glaciers have set alarm bells ringing. The Paris climate conference 2015 culminated in signing of agreement, whereby nations committed themselves to cutting their greenhouse emissions substantially. The way summers have set in the very month of March this ...
India’s Progress in Field of Science & Technology
India’s progress in field of science and technology can be gauged from the historic achievement of launching Mangalyaan, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), to the Mars with precise technology and strategy. The most remarkable aspect of this project was its low cost of Rs. 450 crore or US$ 73 million, making it the least expensive Mars mission to date. Indian Space Res...
Smart Government
The idea of smart governance is now being realized as engine of progress and growth for the country like India with billion plus people requiring a hyper efficient and responsive administration commensurate with challenges and needs of time. As traditional mechanism adopted and implemented so far as interface between people and politico-administrative structure of the country seem ...