New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) India’s apex research funding body, the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), has selected ten Convergence Research Centres of Excellence (CoEs) to promote multidisciplinary research for deep integration of scientific knowledge within social sciences and the humanities, an official statement said on Wednesday.The initiative seeks to establish pioneering centres that bring together social sciences, humanities, science, and technology to address complex societal …
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New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari has said that India’s logistics cost will drop to 9 per cent at the current robust pace of road infrastructure development.The Union Minister said that research by IIT Bangalore, IIT Kanpur and IIT Chennai completed six months ago showed road‑infrastructure improvements had already reduced logistics costs by 6 per cent to about 10 per cent, a statement said.”Earlier, logistics costs in India were as high as…
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) A first-year undergraduate student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi was found dead in his hostel room at the New Vindhyachal Apartments on the campus, officials said on Friday.The incident triggered concern among students and the institute’s administration.The institute stated that the student’s body was discovered inside his room on Thursday morning.According to officials, the matter was immediately reported to the police, following which a team fro…
Agra, March 7 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said the government is working on a policy to encourage private investment in setting up super speciality hospitals and in supporting the opening of new private medical colleges in the state. “We have already relaxed the policy to encourage the opening of more private hospitals. We now want the private sector to augment government efforts in expanding the number of medical colleges,” he said while inaugurating a…
Washington, March 5 (IANS) Indian economist Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian has received the University of Chicago’s Alumni Award for Professional Achievement. He is the first Indian economist to receive the honour in the award’s 85-year history.Subramanian served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India from 2018 to 2021. He later represented India at the International Monetary Fund as Executive Director.The award places him among a group of past recipients that includes Nobel laur…
Tokyo/New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath shared with citizens the joy of travelling at 501 km/hour in a Japanese train, an official said on Thursday.Sharing visuals of the onboard speed display board, CM Adityanath also took photos when the train crossed the 501 km/hour speed.In a message on his official social media account, the CM said, “You can see that I was travelling at 501 km/h. Experienced Japan’s advanced SCMAGLEV train in Yamanashi, a next-generat…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) In a move to strengthen industrial emission control measures across the National Capital Region (NCR), the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) on Saturday issued a statutory direction proposing a uniform and more stringent Particulate Matter (PM) emission standard of 50 mg/Nm³ for identified industries across Delhi-NCR. Industrial stack emissions are a significant source of elevated PM levels in Delhi-NCR and also contribute to the fo…
Bengaluru, Feb 17 (IANS) Bengaluru-based AI infrastructure company Bharat1.AI on Tuesday announced plans to build a ‘Humanity‑First AI City’ here, “for model training, fine‑tuning and inference” by hosting over 10,000 AI researchers and innovators by year‑end.The company called the initiative, “a city-scale research and infrastructure initiative designed to advance foundational Agentic and Physical AI systems in real-world environments,” according to its statement.”The B1 AI Superpark — a…
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) While India has strong artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, the key mandate remains scale, coordination and interoperability, according to experts.Professor V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, stressed that AI must enhance inclusion, preserve language diversity, and strengthen all learners without creating divides.He was speaking at the ‘Bharat Bodhan AI Conclave 2026’ here that brought together an unprecedented gathering of India’s education and technology ecosys…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The government has constructed 57,125 km of National Highways during the last five years, with an average construction of 34,215 lane-km per year, and this has led to average annual employment generation of about 33 crore person-days, including direct and indirect employment, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari informed the Parliament on Wednesday.The government has targeted to operationalise 18,000 km of access-controlled National Expressways by 2028-29. A…