Kautilya

CSL Delivers Sindhu, 500 Pax Passenger Vessel to Andaman and Nicobar Administration – Make in India

The ship would ply mainly between the groups of islands but also can call the Main Land as necessary. This project is a part of a series of Four Passenger vessels comprising of 2 nos 500 Pax and 2 nos 1200 pax at a total order value of approx: 1400 crores under the “Make In India” initiative of the Government. The second 500 pax sister vessel is presently under advanced stage of construction is also expected to join the fleet in the current year.

South African Food Brand Futurelife to Start Production in India

South African nutritional food brand, Futurelife, that recently entered into a joint venture with Indian traditional snack brand, Haldirams, is likely to start production in India within the next few months, said a senior executive. The company is also likely to ‘Indianise’ the products to suit the Indian palette.

New Tool to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance

A team of researchers at the Department of Biotechnology’s Hyderabad-based National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (DBT-NIAB) has developed a new technique to detect the presence of an antibiotic called Oxytetracycline (OTC) in milk samples.

Researchers Devise Digital Method to Process Sanskrit Texts

Researchers led by Dr Pawan Goyal have developed a digital infrastructure for the efficient processing of Sanskrit texts, by effectively combining state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and traditional linguistic knowledge from Sanskrit. The proposed framework is based on Energy-based models and it enables the encoding of relevant linguistic information as constraints.

India Strengthening its Trainer Aircraft Fleet

The aircraft comes under the category of “Indian designed, developed and manufactured” (IDDM) equipment, as per the Defence Procurement Procedure of 2016. And the trainer aircraft has so far cleared all the Air Staff Qualitative Requirements (ASQR).