Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA), introduced in 2019 for the first time under National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India to systematically rank all major higher educational institutions and universities in India on indicators related to “Innovation and Entrepreneurship DevelopmentContinue Reading...
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Evolution of Wireless Technologies in Mobile Communication
The first wireless transmission of Morse code signals using radio waves wireless to a distance of 3.2 KMs by Marconi in 1895 was the beginning of the wireless communication system that has gone through several evolution stages since then. With the introduction of the first generation mobile network in the early 1980s and huge demand for more connections worldwide, mobile communication standards advanced rapidly ...
World Water Day 2019
‘Leaving no one behind’, an adaptation of the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: as sustainable development progresses, everyone must benefit, was the theme for World Water Day 2019. Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) aims to ensure availability and sustainable management of water for all by 2030. India’s Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation...
TAVR is superior to Surgery for patients with Aortic Valve Stenosis
Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), the replacement of aortic valve with a minimally invasive procedure, in which the only incision is a small hole in the groin where a catheter is inserted, is found, in a large clinical trial, to perform better than open-heart surgery even in low-risk patients with severe aortic stenosis. The results of related study, “Trans-cathete...
PratiyogitaDarpan: AFavourite Magazine for Competitive Exams
Competitive Examinations require a great deal of preparations. Magazines play an important role in the preparations specifically in case of the UPSC eCivil Services Examination (CSE), where a large part of Current Affairs related questions are analytical in nature. Reading newspapers keeps candidates abreast with the current events of national and international importance on daily and regular ba...
Scientists to Step up Research on Ocean & Marine Energy
“Oceans are of vital importance for the wealth and the well-being of present and future generations” said M. Venkaiah Naidu, Vice President of India, interacting with the Scientists of National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), in Dona Paula, Goa on 24 March 2019 and called for fully tapping the enormous potential of the Blue Economy for the country to achieve higher economic growth. Enhancing mo...
Mission Shakti puts India in Elite Space Club
Mission Shakti: Anti-Satellite Missile Test, blowing up a satellite in a Low Earth Orbit into smithereens, a technological mission carried out successfully by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), with a modified exo-atmospheric missile of the ballistic missile defence at an altitude of 300 km, with extremely high degree of precision, from Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Island launch comp...
Justice P C Ghose is India’s First Lokpal
India gets its first Lokpal, as the former Supreme Court Judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose has been appointed as Lokpal, an office dedicated to fighting systemic corruption in the country, by a committee consisting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Loksabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi in the capacity of 'eminent person'. The concept of a...
Indian Pharma Industry & Generic Drugs
“India has undertaken a long and arduous, yet rewarding journey in Pharmacology, from the ‘Charak Samhita’ of traditional Indian medicine system, to becoming the 3rd largest drug manufacturer in the world, in terms of volume, in the field of modern medicine”, said M. Venkaiah Naidu, Vice President of India, while addressing the 2nd Decennial Celebrations of Sarojini...
2nd International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure-2019 (IWDRI), the 2nd IWDRI, organised by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), and in partnership with the Global Commission on Adaptation, United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank on 19 & 20 March 2019 in New De...