Telemedicine Nodes for Emergency Medical Support to Soldiers Posted in High-Altitude
Telemedicine, one of the unique applications of Space Technology for societal benefit, will now enable medical consultation between soldiers deployed at the Siachen glacier and medical echelons or levels of medical care in the rear, as an MoU has been signed ...
The Right Livelihood Award - The Alternative Nobel
Three jailed Saudi human rights defenders have been named winners of “The Right Livelihood Award”, known as the “Alternative Nobel” award, along with two Latin American anti-corruption crusaders, a farmer, and an agricultural scientist on Mon...
'Swachhata Hi Seva' campaign that aims at generating greater public participation towards Swachhta was launched by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Saturday September 15, in the run up to the 4th anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission on the 2nd of October 2018, which will also mark the commencement of the 150th year celebr...
The building blocks of any country are its future citizens. If a country fails to provide quality education to its children and youth, then it’s only jeopardizing its future because progress in education is the foundation to build a skilled and strong nation. And India is no exception.
Though, in the recent years, India’s education sector...
Pluto should be a planet again, researchers including Philips Metzger, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida’s Space Institute, in a new study published online in the journal Icarus on Wednesday September 5, 2018, argue that the definition of a planet should be based on its intrinsic properties as opposed to properties that can change, s...
Indian Defence Services – An Exciting Career Option
The youth of today are highly ambitious and sensitive about making a career choice. Mentally sharp and clinically precise - the new breed of Indian teenagers is seldom ingenuous or naive. But when it comes to the career crossroads, a state of confusion takes over mental clarity like a shroud. While material ...
Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main, the qualifying examination for admission to B.E. / B. Tech. & B. Arch. / B. Planning Courses in NITs, IIITs, and other CFTIs, will be conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA) from 2019 onwards and is now NTA JEE Main. This Examination was being conducted by the Central Board of S...
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2018 has been won by two immunologists James P Allison of the MD Anderson Cancer Centre, USA, and Tasuku Honjo from the Kyoto University, Japan, who discovered how to harness the body’s immune system to fight cancer.
The duo will share the nine million Swedish kronor (£775,000) prize, announced by Professor Thomas Perlma...
India Successfully Test Fires Short-Range Surface-to-Surface Tactical Ballistic Missile “Prahaar”
Prahar, surface-to-surface tactical missile, a contemporary weapon system capable of carrying multiple types of warheads and neutralizing a wide variety of targets, was successfully flight tested by Defence Research and Development Organisation (...
India Ranks 158th in Human Capital Score
“Measuring human capital: a systematic analysis of 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016”, an unprecedented scientific study conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the request of the World Bank and published on 24 September 2018 in journal The Lancet, find...