Innovation was the buzzword of the 21st century said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing 56th annual convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay in Mumbai on August 11 2018 and added that IITs have built brand India globally and their success has helped India become one of the world's largest pools of technical manpower. PM
Blue Economy will get a boost as “Ocean Services, Technology, Observations, Resources Modelling and Science (O-SMART)”, the umbrella scheme of Ministry of Earth Sciences; has been approval by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday August 29, 2018. Technologies being developed under O-SMART will help in harnessing the vast ocean resources t...
World Health Organization (WHO) report that states 9 out of 10 people in the world breathe air containing high levels of pollutants figured 14 Indian cities in a list of 20 most polluted ones in the World in terms of PM2.5 levels in 2016 and warns that the combined effects of household air pollution and ambient air pollution will become increasingly hard to address if not tackled early. In terms...
SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds), an instrument for self-actualisation providing opportunities for a life-long learning, is a programme initiated by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, technically supported by Microsoft, and is designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., Access, Equit...
Deep Ocean Mission has been planned to explore the deep recesses of the ocean and its blueprint has been unveiled on Friday July 27, 2018 with a five-year ₹8000 crore plan in which Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India is tasked with coordinating the exercise and proposal has been submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office. This will improve India’s position in ocean research field. An O...
High Thrust Version of Vikas Engine that successfully qualified through a ground test for duration of 195 seconds (over three minutes) on Sunday July 15, 2018 at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri, Tamilnadu will add muscle to spacecraft lifting power of all the three satellite launch vehicles of ISRO. Vikas Engine is the workhorse liquid rocket engine powering second stage of India’s ...
Crew Escape System, an emergency escape measure designed to quickly pull the crew module along with the astronauts to a safe distance from the launch vehicle in the event of a launch abort, a major technology demonstration, was carried out by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday, 5 July 2018. Crew Escape System, a critical technology that takes ISRO closer to its ambition of sen...
S-400 Triumf Russian Air Defence Missile System one of the most formidable in the world that even the US fears could soon be acquired by India as negotiations have been concluded after finalization of financial component worth ₹40,000 crore ($ 5.5 billion) and the deal is likely to be officially announced before an annual summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir...
BioMind, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered system, proficient in diagnosing neurological diseases such as meningioma and glioma with an accuracy rate of over 90% that can diagnose brain tumours and predict brain hematoma expansion cases and would prove to be incredibly valuable on being integrated to existing medical practices, has been developed by Artifi...
qXR, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to interpret chest X-rays, which identifies 15 of the most common chest X-ray abnormalities, including Tuberculosis, with more than 90% accuracy, has been developed by the Mumbai-based Qure.ai, a health-care AI start-up. qXR uses a heat map or bounding box to point out abnormalities to the clinician. It was trained on over 1.5 million X-rays to detect 15...