India and Qatar conduct joint naval exercise in Persian Gulf
The second edition of the joint naval exercise, Zair-Al-Bahr, between the Indian Navy and Qatar Emiri Naval Force (QENF) was conducted between August 9 and 14 in the Persian Gulf.
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MHA Introduces New e-Visa Type Amid Afghanistan Crisis; Set to Benefit Hindus, Sikhs Stranded in Afghanistan
Reviewing the visa provisions in light of the current situation in Afghanistan, the home ministry on Tuesday has created a new e-visa category – the e-Emergency X-Miscellaneous visa — that will allow Afghan nationals wanting to evacuate to India, to apply online.
UK Expresses Willingness for Collaborating with India on Green Hydrogen
India has already retired 16369 MW of inefficient thermal units till March, 2021. This was stated by the Union Minister of Power and Renewable Energy, Shri RK Singh, in a meeting with the Rt Hon Alok Sharma, COP 26 President, here today. The COP26 President had raised the topic of phasing out of coal fired power plants, in the meeting. Secretary (Power), Secretary (MNRE) and High Commissioner of UK in India were also present.
India Records 572% Growth in Grant of Patents in Last 7 Years
Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs & Food & Public Distribution and Textiles Shri Piyush Goyal today conferred the National Intellectual Property Awards 2020 to the winners at an event. Dr GiridharAramane, Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways and Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade and other senior officials were also present at virtual event.
IIT Guwahati Researchers Develop New Memory Architectures Methods to Boost Processor Speeds
IIT Guwahati researchers have developed methods to solve the problems in computer systems domain. Specific contributions being in multi-core processor-based systems that need an equally large on-chip memory to commensurate the data demands of applications and hence preventing energy consumption to ensure the temperature remains under the thermal design power (TDP) budget.
Indigenous Memory Technology Adoption for 180 nm CMOS Production: A National Milestone in Semiconductor R&D
chnology. IIT Bombay invented the one-time programmable (OTP) memory based on ultra-thin deposited silicon dioxide (a few atoms thick) instead of the existing gate oxide-based OTP technology.
“Draft Electricity (Promoting Renewable Energy Through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2021” Circulated
The Ministry of Power has circulated the “Draft Electricity (promoting renewable energy through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2021”. They have placed them on the Ministry of Power website – https://powermin.gov.in/ and sought comments within 30 days.
Defence Testing Infrastructure Scheme
The scheme was launched by Raksha Mantri Mr. Rajnath Singh on May 08, 2020. The scheme would run for the duration of five years and envisages setting up of 6-8 Greenfield Defence Testing Infrastructure facilities that are required for defence and aerospace related production.
HAL Civil Aircraft Achieves Testing Milestone
Defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on Monday said it has successfully completed the ground run and low-speed taxi trials (LSTT) of the Hindustan-228 (VT-KNR) aircraft on Sunday for DGCA ‘type certification’.
Union Agriculture Minister Inaugurated the World’s Second-Largest Refurbished Gene Bank at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources
Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the world’s second-largest refurbished state-of-the-art National Gene Bank at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Pusa, New Delhi. On this occasion, Shri Tomar said that the farmers of India are fully capable of accepting the challenges faced by the agriculture sector and conquering them. He said that our farmers are skilled human resources even without any major educational degree. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is constantly concerned about the welfare of the farmers and concrete steps have been taken by the government through several schemes to increase their income.