14-year-old Andhra-origin tech whiz creates AI app that detects signs of heart failure in 7 seconds, following low-cost prosthetic arm successSiddharth Nandyala’s AI-powered app, Circadian AI, can identify heart abnormalities within seconds using a smartphone. Tested on thousands ...
07 Jun, 2025, 09.05 PM IST
Indian-American Gitanjali Rao is on ‘TIME’ cover, Twitter churns out ‘desi parents’ memesShashi Tharoor, Anand Mahindra & Vikas Khanna were left in awe of the young scientist and innovator.
04 Dec, 2020, 12.20 PM IST
Tata Trusts & IIT Kanpur backed startup HelpUsGreen receive UN Young Leaders AwardThe UN Young Leaders is a flagship initiative led by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s envoy of youth. The jury comprised of soci...
24 Sep, 2018, 05.27 PM IST
View: Padman can be a role model for solving India’s huge job crisisProactivity, problem solving and entrepreneurship will have to be embedded in the curriculum of schools, colleges and vocational institutio...
11 Mar, 2018, 04.40 PM IST
- Bio sanitary pad among sustainability challenge winners
New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) Biodegradable sanitary napkins and a 'beeswax cloth wrap' to replace silver foil were the two winning novel utili...
06 Mar, 2018, 09.22 PM IST
- Two India-born MIT scientists win prestigious US awards
Washington/Bengaluru, Sep 15 (IANS) Two Indo-American scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been conferred with ...
15 Sep, 2016, 12.05 AM IST
- Indo-American scientist awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
Washington, Sep 14 (IANS) An Indo-American imaging scientist and inventor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been conferred...
14 Sep, 2016, 06.32 PM IST
Modi government is giving Make in India plan a big push with these 10 IPR stepsThe Modi government, in its push for Make in India', has announced a slew of measures to promote homegrown talent.
17 Jul, 2015, 01.24 PM IST
Indian-American boy wins prestigious young scientist awardAn 18-year-old Indian-American boy has won the prestigious Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award in the US for inventing a device that qui...
16 May, 2015, 02.18 PM IST
Children should benefit from innovation: UNICEF reportIt says that innovations such as oral rehydration salts or ready to use therapeutic foods have helped drive radical change to millions of c...
21 Nov, 2014, 04.32 PM IST
Witworks: You pitch your idea, they make your productBangalore-based Witworks, founded by three IIT Kharagpur graduates, who promise that a prototype of a chosen design or idea is ready in 30 ...
15 Aug, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Men behind the sleek portable powercardArmaan Gandhi, Arzan Irani and Sahej Sethi (left to right) came up with the idea when they were on an important con-call and batteries of t...
31 Jul, 2014, 06.18 PM IST
Indian innovators need to go after low-cost, high-valueNIF chairperson, RA Mashelkar, says young people working on an innovative idea risk a high failure rate and need to be encouraged through a...
28 Mar, 2013, 12.01 PM IST
How Indian companies can change the future of researchApart from companies, the government also appears to be convinced that the private sector can play a huge role in research.
13 Jan, 2013, 08.45 AM IST
UP Assembly Election 2012: Rahul Gandhi reduces celebrated technocrat Sam Pitroda into a caste mascotThe avowedly caste-averse Rahul Gandhi has stunned many by reducing celebrated technocrat Sam Pitroda into a caste mascot for UP polls.
02 Feb, 2012, 05.48 AM IST
- Manmohan Singh asks universities to groom global leaders
The Prime Minister further said that with India emerging in the forefront of the innovative world, the country needs researchers and invent...
22 Nov, 2010, 09.35 PM IST
- BRIC by BRIC India needs to create jobs
ET gets up close with Gallup CEO Jim Clifton as he heads out to India this week.
22 Apr, 2007, 08.30 PM IST