Global Body Approves ISRO’s Navigation System NaVIC, Move to Boost its Commercial Use
Global standards body 3GPP has approved India’s regional navigation system NaVIC, developed by Isro. (Represen…Read More
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Proud Achievement for Indian Railways! India Among 7 Nations that Produce Own Train Sets, Says Piyush Goyal – Make in India
Asserting Indian Railways’ ‘Make-in-India’ approach, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has recently said that India is “one amongst only 7 countries in the world which make their own train sets”.
Railway Reaching Tawang will be Befitting Reply to China: Arunachal CM
Khandu emphasized that connectivity is the only bottleneck for a state which is rich in potential. He sought special attention of the Ministry in providing optimum railway connectivity in the state.
Airfield Pavement Management System in India for the First Time
It will assist airport managers in developing viable strategies to maintain the pavements in a serviceable condition over a given period and quantify information on maintaining a pavement network at an acceptable level of service. It will also optimise pavement-related expenditure.
21 Nuclear Reactors Under Planning, Construction: AEC Chief
In his statement at the 63rd General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) here, Vyas said that India’s Kaiga Generating Station (KGS-1) has set a new world record of continuous operation for 962 days on December 31, 2018, while working at 99.3 per cent plant load factor.
Mumbai Coast Gets Another Strategic Asset – India’s First State of Art Dry Dock
Naval officers said the dock will be dedicated to the Indian naval command and has the capacity to dock the aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya, for repair and maintenance, not to speak of nuclear submarines. With a length of 281 metres, width of 45 metres and depth of close to 17 metres—almost equivalent to a five-storey building—the dry dock is nothing short of a construction marvel.
5 More BRO Bridges Completed in Kathua: Dr Jitendra
These are among over 20 new bridges for which the construction has been undertaken by the BRO in recent times and while some of these are already completed, others are at different stages of construction.
Apple to Invest $1 Billion in India with Foxconn as a Major Partner
Reports indicate that Apple has plans to turn India into a manufacturing center beyond China and also export its “Made in India” products to other countries. Soon, India will also have an official App Store.
Indian Railways Train sSets in Demand Globally! Sri Lanka to Get 2 More Air-Conditioned ‘Make in India’ DEMUs
Recently, RITES has signed a contract worth $22.4 million with the neighbouring country Sri Lanka for the supply of two additional fully air-conditioned Diesel Multiple Unit train sets. RITES Limited is a company established under the aegis of Indian Railways.
National Centre for Clean Coal R&D Opened
The new centre would address several critical R&D challenges towards the development of clean coal technologies in tandem with developing supercritical power plant technologies, both at the materials and system level.