POSHAN (PM’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment) Abhiyaan, the National Nutrition Mission to address Malnutrition through Convergence, Use of Technology and a Targeted approach, to 315 Districts across all States and UTs, launched by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi at Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan on March 08, 2018 on the occasion of International Women's Day, had been approved ...
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Index to Assess & Improve Management of Water Resources
Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) Report prepared by NITI Aayog, keeping in view the criticality of water for life, has been released by Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources and Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, on June 14, 2018. According to the CWMI report, based primarily on data supplied by States, 70% of the water resources ...
Dhanush- India’s 1st Long-Range Artillery Gun Better than Bofors
Dhanush, India’s first indigenous long-range artillery gun has cleared tests under severe cold conditions in Sikkim and Leh and in hot and humid weather in Balasore in Odisha, Babina in Jhansi and in the desert of Pokhran in Rajasthan. Six guns in battery formation, at one go and at one target, successfully fired 101 rounds on June 7, 2018; and are now ready for induction into Army. Plan is to i...
Copyright Coverage to Internet & Digital Environment
WIPO Copyright Treaty, 1996 and WIPO Performance and Phonograms Treaty, 1996 accession, which extends coverage of copyright to the internet and digital environment, has been approved by the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 4, 2018. These World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) treaties provide a framework for creators and right owners to use technical tools t...
BioMind AI-Powered System Diagnosing Neurological Diseases
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...
Best Way to Enhance Your Problem Solving Abilities
Mathematical aptitude tests evaluate your capability to make significant summary of large amount of data by means of mathematics or algebraic expressions rather than evaluating knowledge to work out percentages, ratios counts or related numerical operations. Therefore, the corner stone of such assessments is to evaluate your aptitude solving abilities rather than intense knowledge of mathematics. Some of the ide...
Artificial Intelligence to Interpret Chest X-rays
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...
AIIB to Boost Prosperity & Security in Asia & Beyond
"Mobilizing Finance for Infrastructure: Innovation and Collaboration" was the theme of 3rd annual meeting of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, inaugurated by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mumbai, Maharashtra and attended by over 3,000 delegates from 86 member countries. The Meeting had several concurrent sessions that discussed critical ...
‘Leaf Wearables’ wins $1M for women’s safety device ‘SAFER Pro’
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 ...
Delhi as the National Capital Belongs to the Nation as a Whole
National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi has a “special status” and is not a “full state” and neither just a Union Territory. After Constitution 69th Amendment Act, 1991 came into force, followed by the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) Act, 1991 the Union territory of Delhi officially became the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Delhi has ...