In a bid to strengthen the industry-academia partnership and to bring qualitative improvements in Technical Education, the Administrative Council (AC) has given sanction for establishing two Centres for Invention, Innovation, Incubation, and Training (CIIIT) in Jammu and Kashmir.
The department of personnel and training (DoPT) has announced the launch of an online learning platform to train doctors, nurses, paramedics, government officers, police organisations and civil defence workers to combat Covid-19.
Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) hatched a conspiracy through social media to thwart Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal of lightning ‘Diya’ to express solidarity against coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic by spreading false news of power grid failure and of fire accidents have been exposed.
Madhuban Gajar, a biofortified carrot variety with high β-carotene and iron content developed by Shri Vallabhhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya, a farmer scientist from Junagadh district, Gujarat is benefitting more than 150 local farmers in the area.
Tata Power Solar will build the 300 MW CPSU-II for NTPC at an all-inclusive price of Rs 1,730.16 crore (US$ 247.55 million).
Pharmacists, popularly known as “Swasth ke Sipahi”, of Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Kendra, are delivering essential services and medicines at doorstep of patients and elderly under Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) of the Government of India
As the world runs out of space to store the flood of oil, petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday held a virtual meeting with his UAE counterpart Sultan Al Jaber to discuss the possibility of tanking up India’s strategic petroleum storage capacity with crude from ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) to take advantage of the price crash.
Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naikhas expressed confidence that COVID-19 can be treated with Ayurveda, adding that in the absence of scientific validation the ancient Indian medicinal stream has only been used as a preventive measure during the current crisis.
It may also be recalled that at the initiative of Prime Minister of India, a SAARC Leaders Video Conference was held on 15 March 2020 to discuss ways to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This will help us to understand the evolution of the virus, how dynamic is it and how fast it imitates. This study will help us to know how fast it evolves and what are the future aspects of it” said Dr Rakesh Mishra, Director, CCMB while speaking with India Science Wire.
