Minister Jitendra Singh says scientifically-conceived RDI Fund response enthusiasticIndia's new Research, Development, and Innovation Fund is receiving an enthusiastic response from the private sector. This unique initiativ...
06 May, 2026, 05.47 PM IST
Cursor may raise $2 billion at $50 billion valuation: ReportAI coding startup Cursor is close to securing over $2 billion in new funding. This investment could value the company at $50 billion. Retur...
19 Apr, 2026, 08.58 PM IST
MoD brainstorms with 50 MSMEs and start-ups to accelerate defence innovationThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) engaged with over 50 start-ups and MSMEs to address key challenges and opportunities in the defence sector. T...
26 Mar, 2025, 04.45 PM IST
IIT Guwahati, IIT Mandi, and CSTEP Bengaluru release district-level climate risk assessment report for IndiaA new report reveals 51 Indian districts face "Very High" flood risk and 91 face "Very High" drought risk. Alarmingly, 11 districts are hig...
13 Dec, 2024, 07.37 PM IST
Panel red flagged onset of 2nd wave in March 1st weekThe National Covid-19 supermodel committee had red-flagged to the government in March first week that a 'second wave was on its way' and ad...
30 Apr, 2021, 07.47 AM IST
National climate vulnerability assessment identifies eight eastern states as highly vulnerableThe report titled ‘Climate Vulnerability Assessment for Adaptation Planning in India Using a Common Framework’ identifies the most vulnerab...
17 Apr, 2021, 07.25 PM IST
Department of Science and Technology to set up tech innovation hub at IIIT HyderabadUnder this initiative, IIITH will receive a funding of Rs 110 crore from the DST. In a statement on Thursday, IIITH said it was the only in...
20 Aug, 2020, 11.59 PM IST
IIT-Madras unveils "word's first" remotely operable LEAP miscroscopeThe Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP) had been developed in a collaborative exercise involving eight top research institutions in the count...
16 Jul, 2018, 08.30 PM IST
World TB Day: Over 25% TB patients in India are resistant to at least one anti-TB drug"High rates of treatment failure and deaths are associated with fluoroquinolone resistance in the Indian cohort of MDR-TB patients," stated...
24 Mar, 2018, 04.20 PM IST
India Innovation Growth Programme earmarks USD 2 million funding for this yearSpeaking at the event, Tata Trusts Head Entrepreneurship and Innovations Manoj Kumar exhorted the need to have more participants in the pro...
21 Mar, 2018, 04.36 PM IST
DST sanctions Rs 3 crore for IIMK LIVEIIMK has made available required space and facilities on campus and is developing a series of programmes and products that would ensure lon...
15 May, 2017, 03.29 PM IST
DST institutions contributing to Digital India in big way, says professor Ashutosh SharmaHe also said a scientific interface (a standing committee) should be there to help NATMO "understand the directions in which they should mo...
10 Sep, 2015, 03.48 PM IST
Mars Mission's success to inspire children towards scienceThe Department of Science and Technology has decided to use it as a tool to inspire school v and inculcate interest in science.
06 Oct, 2014, 05.05 PM IST
- India, UK to collaborate on 12 new R&D projects
India, UK today announced 12 new research and development collaborations in the fields of advanced manufacturing, smart energy grids and en...
13 Jun, 2013, 06.43 PM IST
- India announces $5 million contribution to fund innovation by civil society
India announced a $5mn contribution to a joint initiative with a US agency to identify and invest in innovation by civil society.
08 May, 2012, 12.47 PM IST
- SMEs to contribute 22pc to GDP by 2020, says government official
Contribution of small and medium enterprises to the country's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to increase to 22 per cent by 2020, ...
25 Nov, 2011, 05.02 PM IST
- B-schools beef up seed funding to push entrepreneurial initiatives
Business schools across the country are looking to strengthen corpuses that give wing to students’ dreams, as part of their effort to push ...
29 Apr, 2011, 05.59 AM IST