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Startup Mahakumbh 5.0: Celebrating India’s Startup Spirit in 2026

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Startup Dangal Winner: ₹10 Lakh at Startup Mahakumbh 5.0

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Startup Mahakumbh 5.0 – Grand Innovation Gathering at Yashobhoomi Convention Centre (2026)

Why India Needs a Different Way to Support Climate Research and Education !!

New Delhi: Climate science has been an accidental tourist at the debate dominating human discourse in the last two decades. Developing countries like India are being forced to strike a fine, but often impossible, balance between pushing aggressively for economic development and mitigating the unavoidable environmental damage that comes with such development (because of, among other reasons, reliance on dirty energy, unmanaged land use and natural resource exploitation). Economic development however  also facilitates higher investments in the human and computational resources required to advance weather and climate predictions as well…

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IIT Guwahati Students Develop Drone to Sanitise Large Areas !!

New Delhi: A group of students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, has developed a drone with an automated sprayer to sanitise large areas including roads, parks, and footpaths. The student group, which has a start-up called “Racerfly”, has approached the Assam and Uttarakhand governments with their sprayer system which they claim can accomplish the task in less than 15 minutes which would otherwise take a person 1.5 days of work. According to Anant Mittal, a Civil engineering student at IIT Guwahati, the sprayer system can be deployed and…

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AICRA and IASC-SSC will jointly do Assessments of 3.5 Lakhs Industry Workers on Qualification Packs (QP) as per approved NOS !!

New Delhi: AICRA and IASC-SSC, an autonomous body of Ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship, Government of India agreed to work in collaboration with each other to conduct livelihood program by skilling the unemployed youths and up- skilling the un- organised sector technicians in Industries. The thrust of the agreement is to promote and conduct up-skilling projects for MSME sector on Industry 4.0 outcome-based training Assessment and Certification on Qualification packs (QP) as per approved National Occupational Standards (NOS). Initially 17 QPs will be rolled out under various skill development projects…

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Young Scientists Are Among India’s Unsung Heroes !!

Bengaluru: PhD students in India are often ridiculed for their choices, sometimes by their own families and at others by trolls who think of them as ‘parasites’. While the former manifest as casual remarks or snide comments at social gatherings, the latter resort to name-calling on social media. Although research scholars in humanities have been the favourite targets of trolls, those in the sciences have not been exempt. These scholars, however, constitute a majority of the workforce running research and development in the fight against COVID-19. Collectively, their work covers…

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Spotted in New Gravitational Wave Discovery: A Stranger in the Stellar Graveyard !!

As most of India slept in anticipation of a national holiday and the usual Independence Day celebrations the following morning, three gravitational wave detectors in the US and Italy observed one of the strangest signals to date. The twin Advanced LIGO detectors in the US and the Virgo detector in Italy are the most precise measuring devices ever built. They can sense extremely tiny disturbances in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, created when massive bodies like two black holes or neutron stars rapidly spiral in and merge. Since…

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What India Needs to Do to Build a Robust AI Ecosystem in the Country !!

  The Government of India approved the Rs 3,660 crore national mission on cyber-physical system technologies: artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), machine learning (ML), deep learning, big data analytics, robotics, quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum encryption, data science and predictive analytics. Earlier the same year, NITI Aayog had published the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence discourse paper, which recommended setting up an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research, Analytics and knowledge Assimilation (AIRAWAT) platform. Meanwhile, the government had also constituted four committees on AI in four well-considered areas. These committees have…

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‘Green shoots of economic revival seen across sectors’: Finance ministry

The finance ministry on Tuesday said the agricultural sector would be the foundation of the country’s economic growth and “early green shoots” of economic revival are visible with pickup in agricultural procurement, fertiliser sales, energy consumption, freight movement, digital transactions and forex earnings. “Agricultural sector remains the foundation of the Indian economy and with a forecast of a normal monsoon, it should support the rebooting of the Indian economy,” it said in a statement. Procurement of wheat from farmers by government agencies has been a record 382 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) as on…

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Ramdev’s Patanjali claims to have Covid-19 medicine, 100% recovery in 7 days !!

Not an immunity booster but a cure, claimed yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Tuesday as he unveiled, what he calls, the first ayurvedic medicine against the coronavirus, even as the scientific community the world over is fighting hard to come up with a cure for the highly contagious disease. The yoga guru’s company Patanjali launched ‘Coronil and Swasari’ and claimed the clinical trials on affected patients have shown 100% favourable results. “The whole country and the world was waiting for medicine or vaccine for coronavirus. We are proud to announce that…

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Belkin Kakao Friends 10W wireless charging pad launched in India !!

Belkin has launched a new wireless charger in India in collaboration with Kakao Friends. The Belkin Boost Up 10W wireless charging pad Kakao Edition will be available exclusively via Amazon India. Belkin has priced the wireless charging pad at ₹3,499 on Amazon India. It comes in two colour options of black and white. Kakao Friends are animated characters based on Korea’s KakaoTalk emoticons. There are six Kakao Friends characters – Ryan is a male lion who doesn’t have a mane, Apeach is a mischievous peach that escaped from the peach tree,…

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Japan-Based Fugaku Supercomputer Named World’s Fastest Computer !!

Fugaku, a Japan-based supercomputer, developed by Fujitsu and Japan’s Riken Research Institute, has been named as the world’s fastest computer in an independent survey. This marks the return of a Japanese supercomputer at the top spot after nine years, beating out its US and Chinese counterparts. It is also the first time that a supercomputer based on ARM processors has topped the benchmarking list. Fugaku has further secured the number one position in other major rankings that test supercomputers on different parameters. Supercomputers are used to perform highly complicated tasks…

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