Speaking to ANI, the Air Force Chief said the force is also expecting to finalise a contract worth around Rs 39,000 crore for 83 LCA Mark 1A Aircraft in the next quarter. “The first squadron is already operationalised. We were to operationalise the second squadron in April, we have resurrected the squadron. But due to COVID-19, it got delayed.
The government on Saturday said it is set to sail maiden containerised Exim Cargo from Haldia Dock Complex to Narayanganj, Bangladesh, via Indo-Bangla Protocol (IBP) route.
Japanese machinery manufacturer Kubota has announced an investment in the Indian company behind the Farmtrac tractor range.
Green, spiky and with a strong, sweet smell, the bulky jackfruit has morphed from a backyard nuisance in India’s south coast into the meat-substitute darling of vegans and vegetarians in the West.
In an impetus to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Local ke liye Vocal call, domestic brand Lava on Saturday announced to shift its entire mobile R&D, design and manufacturing for the export market from China to India within next six months, announcing to invest overall nearly Rs 800 crore in the due course of time.
The crucial General Assembly of the World Health Organisation (WHO) will meet for two days from Monday to consider an India-backed resolution seeking an impartial and independent evaluation of the institution’s role in the current pandemic.
India’s space agency will tap startups to develop food and medicines for astronauts, better tools to access machines in a spacecraft and green engines for its maiden humanspace flight Gaganyaan-1.
It will also potentially help them build products and solutions that they can exploit commercially.
“We have already made the announcement of opportunities for research organisations and academics, it will expand to startups and industry,” Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) Chairman K Sivan told ET.
Last month, Isro identified a set of 17 technologies that it invited researchers to develop locally at lower costs for use in its Gaganyaan missions.
These included food and medicine for astronauts during space voyages, life support systems including a spacesuit, inflatable habitats and anti-radiation and thermal protection technologies for spacecraft to bring the astronauts back to earth safely.
The space agency has already indicated that it was looking at several humanspace flight missions, housing a space station and eventually aim to send human beings to the moon. It has set up a small group to do a feasibility study for a manned mission to the moon.
“This opens up opportunities for new types of companies to come up in India,” said Awais Ahmed, founder and CEO of Pixxel, a homegrown startup that is building India’s first private remote sensing satellite fleet. “There will be Indian startups doing biological experiments, private habitats in space and robotic arms that will benefit.”
Isro should also share its intellectual property for the technologies, except for those that are very strategic, to any private entity that develops them, he added.
Sivan said Isro has opened up its facilities to private players, including helping a consortium of companies led by Larson & Toubro and HALNSE 6.29 % build its homegrown rocket – polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV).
India has sent four Air Force pilots to Russia for training, the first set of potential astronauts for the Gaganyaan-1 mission, which is expected by 2022. The space agency has built a spacecraft that can carry three astronauts.
To boost the civil use of atomic energy for the welfare of society, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the government will establish a research reactor in public–private partnership (PPP) mode to facilitate the production of medical istopes for treatment of cancer and other diseases, and also set up food preservation facilities by using irradiation technology to prevent rotting of perishable food items.
The country is moving towards artificial intelligence to help doctors and other medical staff at this time of the epidemic. SCR has developed a robotic device, “Rail Bot” aka R-Bot. R-Bot will help railways in hospital management functions towards patient care in this era of COVID-19.
In a conversation with a limited group of journalists Thursday on integration plans of the Services, Rawat said the process to set up the theatre commands should begin by mid- or late-2021. However, their exact number at the northern and western borders will be based on ongoing threat assessments.
