Globally, IP filings — including patents, trademarks and designs — rebounded in 2020, indicating the resilience of human innovation despite dire global and economic turmoil during the Covid pandemic, latest data from World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) showed. In contrast, during the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, both patent and trademark filing activity had contracted sharply.
Researchers from India and Japan are working on smartphone-based mapping of road health in both the countries to reduce the accidents caused due to damaged roads.
A report by the economists of the State Bank of India (SBI) stated that an increase in mobile transactions along with the number of bank branches, a careful recalibration of bank branches along with a robust digital infrastructure has enhanced India’s financial inclusion metrics.
The government plans to closely monitor cryptocurrency as it is believed to be a quickly evolving technology. Officials have been directed to take proactive steps if any discrepancy is spotted. This was a result of a “consultative process as RBI, finance ministry, the home ministry had done an elaborate exercise on it as well as consulted experts from across the country and the world,” sources who know about the matter told news agencies.
Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Sunday left for Israel on a five-day official visit to discuss avenues for enhancing bilateral defence relations. His visit comes weeks after the India-Israel joint working group (JWG) on defence cooperation decided to set up a task force to put together a comprehensive 10-year roadmap to identify new areas of collaboration.
The S-400 system can detect, track and destroy incoming strategic bombers, jets, spy planes, ballistic missiles and drones at a range of 380-km. The first squadron will be “suitably deployed in the western sector” to tackle aerial threats from both Pakistan and China before they can enter Indian airspace, top sources said on Sunday.
In his message, Union Minister of Law and Justice Shri Kiren Rijiju said New India is developed through the PM’s vision of Digital India. Under the Digital India scheme, e-interface platform Tele Law was developed. It is a platform to strengthen the pre-litigation mechanism in the country. He said the goal of this platform is to achieve Sabka Prayas Sabka Nyay. He gave a call to come together to make common people self-reliant and justice accessible to them, in the period of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.
Union Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan has met President of Uganda Yoweri K Museveni and said that the Ugandan President praised the Indian community in the country for their significant contributions.
RailTel has been awarded the work of provision of Integrated tunnel communication system (VHF Simplex) in sections of Konkan Railway jurisdiction of Rail Link project in Udhampur-Srinagar- Baramulla section of Northern Railway which is a crucial project aimed to connect the valley with the rest of the country.
HYDERABAD: The new frontier of warfare is about subverting civil society and IPS officers have to be at the forefront of this battle to keep the nation intact, national security advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval said in his address to IPS trainees at the SVP National Police Academy in Hyderabad on Friday.
