Observations made by Pune-based upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT), operated by TIFR – National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), will be used along with the data gathered by some large radio telescopes located in Europe, America and Australia.
Following the announcement of incentive schemes for mobile and IT hardware manufacturing, the government now is considering a major scheme for establishing display fabrication units in India. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has requested expressions of interest (EoIs) from organisations interested in establishing LCD/OLED/AMOLED/QLED-based display fabrication units in India.
According to the report, the quality of FPI inflows boosted during the period, as category-I foreign investors, which include central banks, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, regulated entities, and multilateral organizations, raised their stake to a high 95% of total equity assets at the end of February 2021, up from 87.5% at the end of December 2019.
India’s massive evacuation programme triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic has brought back over 67.5 Lakh people from abroad.
Chief election commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora on Saturday said that ‘remote voting’ facility — enabling persons who cannot be at their polling booths on election day for different reasons, to exercise their franchise from a remote location — may be offered in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, with first pilot project likely to start in the next 2-3 months.
India and France are working on their third joint satellite mission, even as the bilateral space collaboration is entering into multiple domains, including human spaceflight programme, Isro Chairman K Sivan said.
Sivan, also secretary in the department of space, said many French companies are keen to tap into opportunities thrown up by recent reforms injected into the space sector by the Government.
India and Japan have agreed to recognize each other’s offices to act mutually as competent International Searching and International Preliminary Examining Authority (ISA/IPEA) for any international patent application filed with them.
Scientists from Bangalore have developed a highly reliable, High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMTs) that is a normally OFF device and can switch currents up to 4A and operates at 600V. This first-ever indigenous HEMT device made from gallium nitride (GaN) is useful in electric cars, locomotives, power transmission and other areas requiring high voltage and high-frequency switching would reduce the cost of importing such stable and efficient transistors required in power electronics.
Fresh excavations have begun at Mandro Fossil Park in Jharkhand to try and find answers to exactly when Australia and Antarctica split from India — with the help of plant fossils. Nearly 50 fossils have been dug up between March 9 and 13 as part of the study, led by the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) in Lucknow with the Jharkhand forest department.
National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) NPPA fixes the price of 81 medicines including off-patent anti-diabetic drugs allowing due benefits of patent expiry to the patients.
