India should develop disruptive technologies to meet goal of decarbonisation by 2050: Anil Kakodkar"Surplus biomass can be converted to hydrogen or hydrogen substitutes for use in industry and transportation. Carbon Capture and Utilisatio...
COVID vaccine: VK Saraswat emphasises need for major push on active pharmaceutical ingredients"Vaccine production in the country is also dependent on raw material from other countries hence there is a need for a major push on active ...
Use crop residue as alternate fuel: Economic SurveyBurning of agricultural residues, leading to rise in pollutant levels and deterioration of air quality, is a major concern, the survey said.
Bennett university partners in India Innovation AwardsTop 40 innovators selected from all four regions were present with their innovations in front of a jury from the startup ecosystem, industr...
Farm, healthcare innovators make pitch at Bennett VarsityAmong the pitches were Czor, a cycle with a onepoint folding mechanism, and Cerelia Nutritech, which envisions tackling micronutrient defic...
60% of PM 2.5 pollutants in Delhi from outside: Study
Semi-high speed, bullet trains proposed by 2035 Vision DocumentIt also said that by 2035, technology should enable people to access public transportation within one km from their homes.
'India should be technologically advanced, culturally rooted'Cautioning that advancement of technology in society tends to "promote monocultures", a technology think-tank of the country has said India...
Private sector should support unheralded innovators: Harsh VardhanThe minister added that the value of scientific research to the country's economy is estimated to be at between Rs 1 lakh crore to Rs 2 lak...
- Tifac wants guar taken off commodity exchanges to arrest price volatility
"We have almost prepared the report and is likely to be submitted to the Commerce Ministry shortly," Tifac chairman Anil Kakodkar said
Farmers of Paliganj reap benefits from APJ Abdul Kalam's teachingsCall it the "Kalam touch", farmers of Paliganj village in Patna district are reaping the benefits of the science of agriculture taught by f...
- UN Climate Change Negotiations 2012: Key role for India in climate tech transfer
TIFAC has been selected as one of the nine institutions comprising the Climate Technology Centre and Network, which forms the core of the t...
- UN Climate Change Negotiations 2012: India acquires key role in tech transfer for combating climate change
India has acquired a key role in technology transfer for combating climate change after the country took a lead role in an agreement for a ...
- India should look beyond IITs to achieve its targets: Ashwini Kumar
Union Minister Ashwini Kumar said the country needs to look beyond existing centres of excellence like the IITs and think bigger to achieve...
- FDI in composites industry to touch Rs 1,000-cr in 4-5 yrs
Foreign investment in the sunrise composites industry, currently around Rs 700 crore, is set to cross the Rs 1,000-crore mark in the next 4...
- Providing clean milk remains a challenge
Despite being the world's largest producer of milk, providing clean milk and increasing per animal productivity remain a challenge, says Ch...
- Govt to hike science R&D spend to 2% of GDP
Science and technology received a greater fillip with the government poised to hike the research and development investment from the curren...