Category: Science&Tech

Telecom Secretary, Mrs Aruna Sundararajan unveiled India’s first Indigenous Semiconductor Chips by Bengaluru based semiconductor company “SIGNALCHIP” for 4G/LTE and 5G NR MODEMs in New Delhi on 27 February 2019. Terming the launch of the Chip as tremendously significant, Mrs Read More …

Department of Biotechnology (Union Ministry of Science and Technology) on February 26, 2019, celebrated its 33rd Foundation Day in New Delhi with the theme as “Celebrating Biotechnology: Building Indian as an Innovation Nation”. BRITE Awards: On the occasion Union Minister Read More …

By Dinesh C Sharma (Twitter handle: @dineshcsharma) New Delhi, February 25 (India Science Wire): India is one of the leading shark fishing countries though fishing and trade in some of the endangered species of shark is banned. In order to Read More …

By Sunderarajan Padmanabhan (Twitter handle: @ndpsr) New Delhi, February 25 (India Science Wire): Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Delhi and engineers from Pune-based Thermax have joined hands to set up a pilot plant for producing methanol from Read More …

Feature By: Monika Kundu Srivastava (Twitter handle: @monikaksrivast1) New Delhi, February 22 (India Science Wire): ‘Crash’ diets often prescribed for quick weight loss are usually unbalanced and lead to health issues that can be dangerous in the long run, a Read More …

Dr. Ravi Mishra (Twitter handle: @Ravimishra1970) Vasco-da-Gama, February 22 (India Science Wire): Researchers have found presence of thick sediment layers dating back to pre-continental era in the Cambay and Kutch basins of Gujarat. Using electromagnetic geophysical methods, scientists from Allahabad Read More …

By S Suresh Ramanan (Twitter handle: @sureshramanan01) Jammu, February 21 (India Science Wire): When Rohini Godbole, theoretical physicist at the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science, was conferred Padma Shri this year, few outside scientific circles knew about her. That’s because Read More …

By Sunderarajan Padmanabhan (Twitter handle: @ndpsr) New Delhi, February 21 (India Science Wire): Indian researchers have identified three drug target sites in the genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae,paving the way for developing newer drugs to treat Pneumococcal diseases. In recent years, Streptococcus Read More …

Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has unveiled its new product, the Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG), an innovative solution to meet the ever-increasing need for drinking water worldwide, at Aero India 2019 on February 21, 2019. BEL’s Atmospheric Water Read More …

By Dr P Surat (Twitter:@psurat22) Faridabad, February 20 (India Science Wire): Early detection of diabetes may become possible with a new sensor developed by Indian scientists to detect low levels of Retinol Binding Protein 4 (RBP4), a biomarker for early Read More …

The Union Cabinet on February 19, 2019 gave its approval to the National Policy on Electronics 2019 (NPE 2019), proposed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Objective: The Policy envisions positioning India as a global hub for Read More …

The Central Government on February 19, 2019 gave its approval to the Setting up of a new company under Department of Space (DoS), to commercially exploit the research and development work carried out by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Centers Read More …

By Sunderarajan Padmanabhan (Twitter handle: @ndpsr) New Delhi, February 18 (India Science Wire): Indian researchers have figured out how fungus Tilletia indica, which causes the Karnal Bunt disease in wheat, infects the crop. This may help them find a possible Read More …

By Dinesh C Sharma (Twitter handle: @dineshcsharma)   New Delhi, February 18 (India Science Wire): If India wants to catch up with China and other countries in the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence it will have to make huge investments Read More …