technology

350.org appeals for ambitious agreement on climate crisis at G7 Hiroshima Summit

350.org appeals for ambitious agreement on climate crisis at G7 Hiroshima Summit

December 27, 2022

The new year will see Germany pass on the mantle of G7 grouping of developed economies to Japan. With the world’s leading industrialised nations also responsible for an overwhelming share of the global carbon emissions, both historically and current, at least on per capita basi...

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Airtel and Jio get into 5G sprint

Airtel and Jio get into 5G sprint

October 8, 2022

Last week as the 5G network was officially launched in India by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India Mobile Congress (IMC), two of the biggest players in telecom, market leader Reliance Jio and its closest rival Bharti Airtel announced their own plans to start rolling out th...

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From Quad Summit to China: India must stop doing Biden’s bidding

From Quad Summit to China: India must stop doing Biden’s bidding

May 25, 2022

The fourth Quad Summit, second in-person, has ended in Japanese capital Tokyo on a predictable note, with more intensive targetting of China, especially for its aggressive misadventures in the Indo-Pacific region. Though the leaders of the four member nations, United States Presi...

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International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020

February 11, 2020

The United Nations (UN) observes February 11 as International Day of Women and Girls in Science and this year it is celebrating the theme ‘Investment in Women and Girls in Science for Inclusive Green Growth’.

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HDI 2019: India continues to trawl the bottom

HDI 2019: India continues to trawl the bottom

December 11, 2019

The extent of gender inequality prevailing in India was highlighted in the Gender Development Index, where India ranked lowly at 122 out of 162 countries, showing that the discriminatory attitude was widespread in the country with severe inequalities in three main areas - reprodu...

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INFOCOM 2019 organises state forums to showcase their potential

INFOCOM 2019 organises state forums to showcase their potential

December 9, 2019

The three-day conference INFOCOM in its 18th edition has adopted the theme of facing the challenges of VUCA world and winning. VUCA is an acronym that stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, a combination of qualities that, taken together, characterise the n...

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Push for Clean and Smart campus

Push for Clean and Smart campus

December 5, 2019

To bolster awareness about cleanliness and ecological conservation through use of smart technology, the ministry of Human Resources Development awarded the best performing universities in India at an event held in New Delhi earlier this week. The ‘clean and smart campus’ comp...

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Boeing 737 Max: Challenging times ahead

Boeing 737 Max: Challenging times ahead

April 22, 2019

Last month’s crash of Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing 737 Max aircraft brings the focus back on the safety of technologies in today’s fly-by-wire aircraft.

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Google Santa Tracker is helping kids track Santa Claus

Google Santa Tracker is helping kids track Santa Claus

December 26, 2018

While the kids in the pre-internet era waited night long in the hope of the arrival of Santa Claus, kids nowadays can simply track him on Google Santa Tracker, play Christmas games and lots more-courtesy smartphones.

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India shows a strong presence at WTM London 2018

India shows a strong presence at WTM London 2018

November 15, 2018

While a multitude of travel and tourism professionals attended WTM 2018 event and discussed about the latest trends, campaigns and issues of negative tourism, the Indian Pavilion offered niche tourism products like adventure, yoga and Ayurveda with its new Incredible India 2.0 ca...

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Artificial Intelligence comes to the rescue of banks

Artificial Intelligence comes to the rescue of banks

May 29, 2018

The Indian banking sector is beginning to adopt AI (artificial intelligence) quite aggressively for both the back-office and customer facing purposes. According to a data provided by RBI, among state run banks in India, PNB topped in the number of loan fraud cases across India wi...

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Bonjour India: An Indo-French moment at India Gate

Bonjour India: An Indo-French moment at India Gate

November 24, 2017

French links with India are largely unknown and sharply under-estimated. As part of a plethora of events curated for Bonjour India, yesterday evening saw the launch of ‘The Experience’- an exhibition housing high-end digital equipment demonstrating the Indo-French journey by ...

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