The nuclear nonproliferation lobby has urged the United States administration to ensure that America's dual-use technology is not diverted by New Delhi to its nuclear weapons programme.
A new Chinese computer system that can make 93 quadrillions calculations per second has claimed the top spot on the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
Working round-the-clock over the past few days, an Indian Institute of Science team is buildingan indigenous ventilator prototype for Covid-19 victims, and it is expected to be ready in the current month itself. A ventilator can be a life-saver for patients whose lungs are damaged by the Covid-19 infection. But India, like all countries grappling with this pandemic, is likely to face a large shortage of ventilators.
Cloned journals have become more rampant in the post-pandemic world.
While Covishield supplies would meet the target of 500 mn doses between August and December, it looks like Covaxin would miss the target of 400 mn unless the partner sites of Bharat Biotech ramp up very rapidly, reports Sohini Das.
The government, in collaboration with the UN-body World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), has commissioned a study to ascertain whether India's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are prepared to adopt the global IPR regime.
The 36-year-old desi speaks impeccable Arabic and quotes freely from the Quran during his speeches, reports Aziz Haniffa.
Three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November 2019, weeks before Beijing disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic, a United States media report said, citing a previously undisclosed American intelligence document that could add weight to growing calls for a full scale probe of whether the coronavirus may have escaped from China's top bio lab.
May's visit is likely to coincide with the India-United Kingdom Tech Summit in New Delhi between November 7 and 9
'India is a country where many of the problems need local solutions and some be solved using basic science.'
It is important to approach the belief of people in ancient India's achievements with a sense of proportion, balance and empathy, argues B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
While both politicians tweeted about a slew of issues, they focused less on developmental issues related to the rural poor -- with Modi devoting a mere three per cent and Gandhi five per cent of his tweets to development, Abhijit Mazumdar, an assistant professor at Park University in Missouri said.
The Rs 500 crore cap in the event of an accident, proposed in the controversial nuclear liability bill, could be raised as part of government's efforts to address concerns of the opposition over the issue. Indications to this effect were given by government officials at a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology and Environment on Tuesady.
A gamechanger for offices and factories, Shycocan, claims to be able to clear an area of 1000 square feet from coronavirus.
Mumbai will have to wait for a few more days for monsoon showers.
The Metereological department could have been able to predict the unprecedented heavy rains that lashed Mumbai last month, if it had a doplar radar, says Union MoS for Science and Technology and Ocean Development, Kapil Sibal.
Applications are invited for admission to MTech programme at IIT Madras under sponsorship scheme.
IIM Ahmedabad's CIIE signed a MoU with Tata Trust for founding partner for the Bharat Fund, which will provide seed funding to Indian entrepreneurs.
Concordia University confers honorary doctorate on Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy.
The clause 17 (b) proposes that the operator would have legal recourse if a nuclear accident results from the "willful act or gross negligence on the part of the supplier of the material, equipment or services, or of his employee."
The Ministry of HRD, government of India, Department of Science & Technology, government of India and The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India present the Fifth Education Fair: International Exhibition and Seminar.
In predicting that the active cases would go up by about 10 lakh by mid-May before sliding, scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and Hyderabad applied the 'Susceptible, Undetected, Tested (positive), and Removed Approach' (SUTRA) model.
Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who is in-charge of Department of Atomic Energy, said the country lacks a law under which compensation could be awarded in the case of a nuclear accident.
The hacker group, which identified itself as 'Pakistan Haxors Crew (PHC)', said, 'nothing deleted or stolen. Just here to deliver my message to Indians'.
'See to it that you have adequate skills that will make you so indispensable that they cannot fire you.'
The lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop the entire rule from going into effect.
Department of Biotechnology offers post-graduate students the chance to train with the top Biotech companies in India.
The new records for extreme lightning bursts, or 'megaflashes', during 2019, are more than double the size and duration of the previous record flashes.
The Defence Series Maps would be for exclusive use of defence forces and authorised government departments. The policy regarding the use of DSMs would be determined by the Ministry of Defence.
'I can say with confidence that any future SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, developed anywhere in the world, would have to be manufactured in India, if it is to be affordable and of high quality.'
Applications are invited from Indian Nationals for the award of "DBT-Postdoctoral Fellowship" for Biotechnology and applied biology.
'This is the beginning of a big campaign which may last a hundred years of trying to understand the human body in detail.'
"I am very happy and proud of his achievements. I am yet to speak to him. I think he must be sleeping as it's still night in the United States," she said.
The University of Wisconsin has sued Intel Corp, the world's largest computer chipmaker, after the two failed to agree on licensing a patent related to microprocessors. The school's research arm claims the company violated the university's 1998 patents developed by four researchers including Professor Gurindar S Sohi, chair of the university's computer science department, in making the popular Core 2 Duo processor.
'Unfortunately, our political class is not interested in making this society equal. They just want to exploit the situation for their own benefit.'
India needs to invest a lot more money in science research and translate this research into products and solutions for its people, says trustee at the Infosys Science Foundation and co-founder at Infosys Kris Gopalakrishnan.
The Rashtrapati Bhavan has come out with a communiqu announcing distribution of portfolios of the ministers sworn-in on Monday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers:
The Chandrayaan-2 will conduct the next level of scientific studies on the Moon, writes T E Narasimhan.
