SAFER Pro, a smart safety device that sends emergency alerts with location details to users’ guardians when they sense danger, from New Delhi based Leaf Wearables, was awarded on Thursday June 7, 2018, $1 Million Anu & Naveen Jain Women's Safety XPrize, at the United Nations in New York City. SAFER Pro is a small chip that can ultimately be ...
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BrahMos Successfully Flight Tested in Turbulent Sea
BrahMos has proved again all-weather capability flying in sea-state 7 with waves as high as 9 meters. DRDO's range capability to operate in the most severe weather condition has also been validated as BrahMos, the supersonic cruise missile was successfully test-fired at 1017 hrs on Monday July 16, 2018 from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Balasore, Odisha. Sea state is the de...
Pakal Dul will be the Largest Hydro Power Project in J & K
Pakal Dul Hydroelectric Power Project, of which foundation stone was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 19, 2018, with 1000 MW capacity, shall be leading to additional Generation of 650 MU in downstream projects and shall improve the water availability during the lean season. Project proposed to be completed at a cost of ₹8112.12 crore as per CCEA sanction is supported ...
Kishanganga Hydroelectric Project to Improve Power Supply & Generate Employment in J & K
Kishanganga Hydroelectric Project on the Kishanganga River in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 19, 2018. Project proposed to be completed at a cost of ₹5882 crore is the first run of the river scheme that involves inter-basin transfer of water from the Kishanganga River, a tributary of the Jhelum, in the Gurez valley to Bo...
Indian Navigation Satellite with Indigenous Atomic Clock
Navigation with Indian Constellation or “NavIC”, an independent Indian Satellite based positioning system for critical National applications, with the objective to provide Reliable Position, Navigation and Timing services over India and its neighbourhood - a region extending 1500 km around it, and to provide fairly good accuracy to the user, is a Constellation of Seven SatellitesContinue Reading...
India Explores Unconventional Energy Resources
Shale Gas that has huge potential refers to natural gas trapped within Shale formations - the fine-grained sedimentary rocks, which can be rich sources of petroleum and natural gas. India has an estimated 96 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of recoverable Shale gas reserves, found mainly in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin, located in eastern India, encloses a serie...
India Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Nuclear Tests
Pokhran-I code named Smiling Buddha was India’s first nuclear successful nuclear test on May 18, 1974 in the deserts of Pokhran, located in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan for which a team of 75 scientists and engineers, led by Raja Ramanna, PK Iyengar, Rajagopala Chidambaram and others had worked from 1967 to 1974, although India had started its own nuclear program in 1944 under guidance ...
Improved Security Situation makes way for Removal of AFSPA
Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), 1958 has been completely removed in Meghalaya from April 01, 2018 as per communiqué dated April 23, 2018 of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), while in Arunachal Pradesh, areas under AFSPA reduced to eight Police Stations bordering Assam, besides Tirap, Changlang and Longding districts...
Every Single Village in India Now Has Access to Electricity
"Leisang village in Manipur, like the thousands of other villages across India has been powered and empowered! This news will make every Indian proud and delighted." “28th April 2018 will be remembered as a historic day in the development journey of India. Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be transformed forever! I am delighted that every single village of India ...
India Can Craft its Own Data Protection Legislation on the Basis European Union General Data Protection Regulation
Aadhaar, India’s compulsory national biometric ID issued by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) - through which it gathers vast amounts of personal data, has been made all-encompassing with the Government having issued about 139 notifications calling for the linking of Aadhaar to various aspects of life. As such its wide pervasive use goes well beyond public entitlements or regulate...