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Clear filtersIIT Hyderabad, together with Crimson Energy Experts Pvt. Ltd., has introduced ANUGYAN (Nuclear Technology Orientation Programme). It is a three-month residential course and the country's first programme jointly run by in...
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati have built "E-Eye", an inexpensive and portable optical sensing device. The instrument is designed for quick detection of toxic substances and carcinogenic heavy...
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has produced India's first fully annotated Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) reference genome, for the pigeonpea variety 'Asha'.The genome spans 752.65 million base pairs acros...
The Himalayan Chandra Telescope at Hanle, Ladakh, has completed 25 years since its First Light on 26 September 2000.Operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) under the Department of Science and Technology, i...
A study by the Union Health Ministry and global health organisations found that introducing the Hexavalent (six-in-one) vaccine in India's Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) could improve efficiency.It protects again...
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the WHO's cancer research agency, classified three widely used medicines as "carcinogenic to humans" (Group 1): Hydrochlorothiazide (blood pressure), Voriconazole (...
A Bengaluru start-up has sent the world's first lab-grown diamond jewel into space aboard Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket.The piece, called the Cosmos Bloom Diamond, is a lotus-shaped jewel handcrafted in gold and se...
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will set up India's first Telecom Manufacturing Zone in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. India aims to connect 100 crore people to 5G by 2030, double the current base of about 50 crore....
The ICAR–National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, has developed India's first indigenous live attenuated vaccine against African Swine Fever (ASF) for pigs, based on the MA-104 cell line.ASF...
Scientists at IIT Patna, Bihar, have built a hybrid magneto-rheometer, with support from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), to advance research on magnetorheological (MR) fluids and smart materials.The devic...
World Wide Web Day is marked every year on 1 August to celebrate the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW) and its influence on communication across the world.The WWW was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and was m...
The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) completed 150 years since its founding on 29 July 2026.IACS was set up in Kolkata in 1876 by Mahendralal Sircar. It was India's first national institution devo...
