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New Delhi, A new analysis has found that heat risk in Indian cities is increasingly being shaped not only by daytime heatwaves but also by night-time heatwaves and compound heatwaves, which occur when a daytime heatwave is followed by a night-time heatwave. This is significant because current Heat Action Plans and urban climate policies mainly focus on daytime heatwaves, according to the study. A H serves as an early warning system and preparedness plan for extreme heat events. In an interview ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, Apr 2: A new analysis has found that heat risk in Indian cities is increasingly being shaped not only by daytime heatwaves but also by night-time heatwaves and compound heatwaves, which occur when a daytime heatwave is followed by a night-time heatwave. This is significant because current Heat Action Plans (HAPs) and urban climate policies mainly focus on daytime heatwaves, according to the study. A HAP serves as an early warning system and preparedness plan for extreme heat events. ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 2 (PTI) A new analysis has found that heat risk in Indian cities is increasingly being shaped not only by daytime heatwaves but also by night-time heatwaves and compound heatwaves, which occur when a daytime heatwave is followed by a night-time heatwave. This is significant because current Heat Action Plans (HAPs) and urban climate policies mainly focus on daytime heatwaves, according to the study. A HAP serves as an early warning system and preparedness plan for extreme heat e ...Read More >
Funding to support AI centres of excellence, health foundation models, Indic language technologies and clean energy partnerships. Google on Wednesday announced funding commitments of more than $15 million and a set of partnerships aimed at supporting India's artificial intelligence ecosystem, with healthcare, government-backed research, Indic language technologies and clean energy emerging as key focus areas. The announcements were made at Google's "Lab to Impact" dialogue, supported by the In ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) Artificial Intelligence has emerged as humanity's most powerful force for progress, Manish Gupta, Senior Director of Google DeepMind said on Tuesday adding that AI's evolution will drive significant shifts including accelerating scientific discovery and augmenting human capabilities. The senior executive at Google DeepMind, the tech giant's premier AI research lab, emphasised that India is at the forefront of utilising Artificial Intelligence to solve real-world, tangibl ...Read More >
New Delhi : Google today announced a suite of new collaborations and funding commitments to bolster India's AI ecosystem at its "Lab to Impact" dialogue, an event supported by the India AI Impact Summit 2026. Attended by Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of Education, the dialogue highlighted Google's research-driven approach to supporting Digital Public Infrastructure and empowering the research, developer, and startup ecosystem to solve national challenges and meet large-scale social nee ...Read More >
New Delhi: Google has laid out a broad set of AI-related commitments for India, touching healthcare, research, language technology, agriculture, and clean energy. The announcements were made at the "Lab to Impact: Google on Health, Science and Society" dialogue, held alongside the India AI Impact Summit 2026. The company positioned these moves as part of its ongoing engagement with India's digital and AI ecosystem, with a clear focus on public infrastructure and large-scale social use cases. Fr ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a bid to support India's research ecosystem, Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, on Tuesday announced a funding of $8 million for four AI Centres of Excellence for health, agriculture, education, and sustainable cities. The centres were established by the Government, aligning with the vision to "Make AI in India and Make AI work for India". The centres include TANUH at IISc Bangalore, which will focus on developing scalable AI solutions for effect ...Read More >
Marking a major shift, the Centre will also ensure that the new regulator is divested of all funding/grant mechanisms, which will instead be handled by the Union education ministry. New Delhi: The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025, set to be introduced in the Parliament this week, will do away with existing regulators AICTE and UGC (allowing a transitional role) and instead bring in a new 12-member regulatory council (Viksit Bharat Shiksha Viniyam Parishad). It will be backed by an ac ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Amid fierce protests and objections by the Opposition members, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday introduced the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill in the Lok Sabha. The legislation seeks to set up a 13-member body to regulate institutions of higher education. The bill was introduced amid din over alleged threatening slogans raised against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a Congress rally on Sunday. As soon as the bill was introduced, Parliamentary Affairs Minis ...Read More >
New Delhi: The government on Monday failed to introduce a Bill that sought to repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and replace it with a proposed law -- The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB G RAM G) Bill, 2025 -- after facing stiff opposition. The VB G RAM G Bill was listed in the Lok Sabha in the supplementary list of business issued on Monday. It was to be introduced by rural development minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 15 (PTI) The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill which seeks to set up an overarching higher education commission was introduced in Lok Sabha on Monday. Here is an explainer on the Bill: 1. What has the Bill proposed? The Bill proposes setting up an overarching higher education commission along with three councils for regulation, accreditation and ensuring academic standards for universities and higher education institutions (HEI) in India. 2. Which institutions will be covered ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 15 (PTI) A bill to set up a 13-member body to regulate institutions of higher education was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday with the government expressing willingness to refer it to a joint committee. The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill seeks to establish an overarching higher education commission along with three councils for regulation, accreditation and ensuring academic standards for universities and higher education institutions in India. Union Education Ministe ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill that seeks to set up an overarching higher education commission along with three councils was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday with the government expressing willingness to refer it to a joint committee. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan introduced the Bill amid din over the issue of alleged threatening slogans raised at a Congress rally on Sunday against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The higher education commission, which will ...Read More >
Chennai: The Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bengaluru's Centre for Brain Research (CBR) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) to study the two-way link between diabetes and dementia. "Blood sugar, high or low, can cause vascular dementia, where poor blood flow affects cognitive function. The relationship works both ways," said MDRF Chairman Dr V Mohan. "We have long studied how diabetes affects the eyes and liver. Now, we ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 25 (ANI): The Ministry of Mines has recognised two more institutes, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and the Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), Hyderabad, besides seven institutes recognised earlier, as Centres of Excellence (CoE) under the National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM), as per a statement Saturday. This follows the approval granted by the Project Approval and Advisory Committee (PAAC) in its meeting held on October 24 ...Read More >
Bengaluru - A boardroom shake-up in Indian conglomerate Tata Group in early October threatened to destabilise the tea-to-semiconductors business house, prompting the government to intervene. The government was so worried about the situation at the organisation - which accounts for an estimated 4 per cent of India's gross domestic product - that Home Minister Amit Shah and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met some of Tata's top leaders in a closed-door meeting in Delhi on Oct 7. The unpreced ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Indian Institute of Science (IISc) researchers from Bengaluru have developed a new siphon-based thermal desalination system that can convert salty seawater into clean drinking water. This system is said to perform the desalination process faster and more cost-effectively than existing methods. According to the Department of Science and Technology, the traditional solar still mimics nature's water cycle of evaporation and condensation to desalinate water, and has been used and recomme ...Read More >
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday approved the Defence Procurement Manual (DPM) 2025 under the Year of Reforms initiative, aimed at expediting revenue procurement for the armed services. The move also seeks to support domestic industry through simplified processes, promote innovation, and ensure a level playing field between the public and private sectors. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is also working to finalise a revised version of the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020 -- a docu ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 14 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved the Defence Procurement Manual (DPM) 2025 to further streamline, simplify, enable and rationalise the revenue procurement process in the Ministry of Defence and cater to the emerging requirements of the Armed Forces in the era of modern warfare. The new manual is aimed at achieving self-reliance in fulfilling the needs of the Armed Forces under Revenue Head (Operations & Sustenance Segment). It will foster jointness ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Most of the dams in the country are facing severe siltation, which reduces their effectiveness in flood control and water storage, a new study by the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) has said, highlighting that Himalayan and Indo-Gangetic plain rivers are classified as highly vulnerable and require immediate attention. The study analysed data from the Central Water Commission's recent report, 'Compendium on Sedimentation of Reservoirs in India', and found th ...Read More >
Bhopal, August 25: Union Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday said that the government did not allow the import of farm goods from the US, as it considers the interest and welfare of India's farmers as paramount. Addressing the convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER) here, Chouhan said that "the new Bharat is full of confidence and does not fear anyone when it comes to safeguarding the interests of its own peop ...Read More >
Bhopal, Aug 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday said that the government did not allow the import of farm goods from the US, as it considers the interest and welfare of India's farmers as paramount. Addressing the convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER) here, Chouhan said that "the new Bharat is full of confidence and does not fear anyone when it comes to safeguarding the interests o ...Read More >
Aug 13 (Reuters) - Women seeking in vitro fertilization might improve their odds of becoming pregnant if they lose weight, but the magnitude of any advantage wasn't clear, in a new analysis of previous studies. The benefit of weight loss was mainly seen in the few couples who ultimately achieved pregnancy without assistance, however. While weight loss interventions appeared to improve the likelihood of spontaneous pregnancy - negating the need for IVF - it was not clear whether they improved t ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi govt has decided to set up a single-window system at the district level to handle all permissions and no-objection certificates required for holding Ramlila performances across the city. It has also decided to constitute a special committee to resolve any issue regarding the organisation of the events and ensure that the committees do not face any problem in seeking approvals.The decisions were made at a special meeting held at Raj Niwas under the chairmanship of lieutenant gove ...Read More >
Bengaluru: For millions of people, the sudden, sharp pain of tooth due to sensitivity can turn a sip of cold water into a jolt. Now, researchers at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in collaboration with Bengaluru-based deep-tech startup Theranautilus, have engineered "CalBots" - magnetic nanobots that can seal the problem at its source.As per IISc, CalBots are 400-nanometre particles loaded with a calcium silicate-based bioceramic formula, designed to travel 500 micrometres deep inside dentin ...Read More >
Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi lauded Operation Sindoor as a pivotal, intelligence-driven mission that redefined India's counter-terrorism approach, showcasing the Armed Forces' capability to address evolving warfare challenges and readiness for fifth-generation conflicts, in Chennai on Monday (August 4, 2025). General Dwivedi inaugurated the research facility 'Agnishodh', a joint project of the Indian Army Research Cell (IARC) and the IIT Madras campus on the campus for self reliance in de ...Read More >
Bengaluru : The inaugural edition of Quantum India Bengaluru (QIB) 2025, held at Hilton Bengaluru Embassy, Manyata Tech Park, concluded today with resounding success, spotlighting Karnataka's growing leadership in quantum science and technology. Themed "Building a Quantum Ecosystem: Qubits to Society," the two-day summit brought together Nobel Laureates, policy leaders, scientists, startup founders, technologists, and students, reflecting the diversity and depth of India's quantum vision. Organ ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): After US President Donald Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), Dr Abhishek Bansal, Senior Consultant and Chief of Interventional Radiology at Aakash Healthcare, warned that even mild symptoms, like Trump ankle swelling, should not be ignored, as they could signal underlying vascular issues. The body often sends out early distress signals, and ignoring them could delay crucial diagnoses. Symptoms like swollen ankles, unexplained bruises, ...Read More >
Bengaluru, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru has successfully developed a method to produce green hydrogen from agricultural waste. Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi, stated that the Central Government will support this innovation. On Friday, the minister visited IISc to witness the new breakthrough that enables green hydrogen production from bio-waste. He praised the institute's pioneering research. Using agricultural waste t ...Read More >
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