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Abhay Karandikar at Idea Exchange: ‘We need to not only be technologically self-reliant but also develop solutions that are disruptive and game-changing’
March 17, 2025 7:39 am
Abhay Karandikar, Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Science & Technology, is leading efforts to upgrade the quality of scientific research in the country
To become a global leader in science & tech, India needs to allocate 3-4% of GDP for R&D: Karandikar
June 04, 2024 5:51 am
India’s expenditure on R&D is less than 0.7 per cent of its GDP, way below the global average of 1.8 per cent.
Dr Rajesh Gokhale assumes charge as Secretary of Department of Science and Technology
July 11, 2023 1:08 pm
Gokhale has worked extensively on tuberculosis and is credited to have developed the Long-chain Fatty acyl-AMP ligases (FAAL).
More women are making a career in science. A lot more needs to be done to ease their journeys
August 23, 2022 9:33 am
While the social sciences and humanities still register a larger presence of women researchers, numbers have increased appreciably in the sciences as well. Health sciences is now pegged at 24.5 per cent, natural sciences and agriculture at 22.5 per cent and engineering and technology at 14.5 per cent.
To rev up EV push, battery solutions per Indian needs
June 19, 2022 4:01 pm
NITI Aayog, DST meet battery makers, academia amid incidents of electric two-wheeler fires; govt, industry plan open source battery management system
IISc installs 'Param Pravega' under National Supercomputing Mission
February 03, 2022 2:37 pm
The system, which is expected to power diverse research and educational pursuits, has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops. It is designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
Pune: DST seeks applications from graduates with business and startup ideas
November 15, 2021 7:53 am
Graduate students will be provided funding to take up entrepreneurship through a fellowship for 12 to 18 months.
DST sanctions Rs 100 crore for IIIT-Delhi's cognitive computing hub
August 31, 2021 5:37 pm
TiH has been set up to create collaboration between industries, academic institutions and government agencies to innovate and develop data-driven cognitive computing solutions
India on track to achieve WHO-recommended doctor-population ratio: NITI Aayog member Vinod Paul
August 10, 2021 9:38 am
In the last 75 years, India has made significant progress in the health sector. At the time of independence, the average life was just 28 years and it has now reached close to 70 years, says Vino Paul.
Pune startup fights Covid-19 with virucidal N95 masks that inactivate coronavirus
June 30, 2021 8:41 am
The masks by Thincr Technologies have been approved by the Department of Science and Technology. Around 10,000 such masks have been distributed to government hospitals and institutions.
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