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PayPal’s Xoom adds UPI payments enabling NRIs and PIOs to remit money to India in real time

January 20, 2021

Innovative UPI integration to help with increased convenience and grow international remittances into India New Delhi Xoom, PayPal’s international digital money transfer service announced its integration with NPIL’s/NPCI’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a real-time payment system facilitating inter-bank transactions. Non-Residential Indians (NRIs) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) living in the United States (US), Canada and Europe can now remit money to their family and friends in India. Using UPI to send money to India via Xoom is easier…

INSPIRE Faculty fellow’s engineering to produce heat-tolerant wheat varieties resulting in improved grain yield

January 19, 2021

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New Delhi We may soon have a wheat variety that does not lose its productivity under heat stress. Heat stress causes a dramatic reduction in yield and quality loss of wheat, the food crop that nurtures more than one-third of the world population. In order to address this challenge, Dr. Vijay Gahlaut, an Inspire Faculty Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), is exploring the epigenetic route to modify gene expression in a manner that is stably…

Rolls-Royce Runs First Engine On World’s Largest And Smartest Aerospace Testbed

January 19, 2021

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New Delhi Rolls-Royce has successfully completed the first engine run on its state-of-the-art Testbed 80, which will be the largest and smartest indoor aerospace testbed in the world when it is officially opened in the coming months. With an internal area of 7,500m2, making it larger than a Premiership football pitch, the testbed conducted its first run on a Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine at the test facility in Derby, UK. This is a major milestone in the project which…

Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurates the new entity CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research (CSIR-NIScPR) with a new Vision

January 15, 2021

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New Delhi Union Minister of Science &Technology, Earth Sciences and Health & Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan inaugurated a new institute of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) i.e. CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research (CSIR-NIScPR), in New Delhi today. The new institute has been established consequent to the merger of two prestigious institutes of CSIR namely, CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (CSIR-NISCAIR) and CSIR-National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS)…

Dr. Harsh Vardhan dedicates an Innovation Portal developed by National Innovation Foundation (NIF) – India to the nation

January 15, 2021

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New Delhi Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, Health & Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan dedicated an Innovation Portal, developed by National Innovation Foundation (NIF) – India, an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, to the nation, in New Delhi today. National Innovation Portal(NIP) is currently home to about 1.15 lakh innovations scouted from common people of the country, covering Engineering, Agriculture, Veterinary and Human Health. In terms of domain…

Scientists at INST, Mohali ,Punjab have produced an ultra-high mobility 2d-electron gas (2DEG)

January 13, 2021

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New Delhi Scientists have produced electron gas with ultra-high mobility, which can speed up transfer of quantum information and signal from one part of a device to another and increase data storage and memory. The need for attaining new functionalities in modern electronic devices has led to the manipulation of property of an electron called spin degree of freedom along with its charge. This has given rise to an altogether new field of spin-electronics or ‘spintronics’. It has been…

Handing Over of Products Developed by CVRDE to Users

January 11, 2021

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New Delhi The handing over ceremony of Retractable Landing Gear Systems for Tapas and SWiFT UAVs and 18 types of filters for P-75 Submarine took place on 10th January 2021 at DRDO laboratory, Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE), Chennai, in the presence of Hon’ble Member of Parliament Dr. Kalanidhi Veeraswamy, Parliamentary Standing Committee Member for Defence, Dr G Satheesh Reddy, Secretary, DDR&D and Chairman DRDO and PK Mehta, DG (ACE). CVRDE has indigenously designed and developed Three…

JCB India enhances its distribution network in Rajasthan

January 9, 2021

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New Delhi India’s leading manufacturer of Earthmoving and Construction Equipment, JCB India Limited further strengthened its presence in Western Rajasthan. Its dealer at Jodhpur, Mayank Equipments, inaugurated its second 3S facility for Sales, Service and Spares in the region. Located about 30 kilometres from the city of Jodhpur, this new premises is spread across 22,000 sq. ft. It will provide customers with JCB India’s full range of Products and Services. The facility has a 4-bay integrated workshop with one…

Earthquake Monitoring and Delineation of Subsurface Structures in Delhi Region

January 7, 2021

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NCS is carrying out geophysical survey, Analysis and interpretation of satellite imageries and geological field investigations for accurate assessment of seismic hazard New Delhi According to the National Centre for Seismologyof the Ministry of Earth Sciences: The National Capital Region of Delhi experienced 4 small earthquakes during April – August 2020, with the first event of magnitude 3.5 on 12 April 2020 in the northeastern boundary of NCT Delhi, during the prevailing lockdown time. These earthquakes were followed by…