Recently, the government launched a nation-wide campaign called KanyaShikshaPraveshUtsav on the eve of the International Women’s Day (8th March). The aim of the campaign is to bring back four lakh out-of-school adolescent girls in the 11-14 years age group into the education system. The project aims to work on a complete system for out-of-school girls by building on …

Recently, Chandra’s Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2), a payload onboard Chandrayaan-2, has made the first-of-its-kind discovery on the distribution of one of the noble gases, Argon-40. India launched Chandrayaan-2, its second lunar exploration mission after Chandrayaan-1, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota in July 2019. Chandrayaan-2 Mission Chandrayaan-2 is an integrated 3-in-1 spacecraft consisting of an Orbiter of the Moon, …

Recently, the Finance Minister launched the E-bill Processing system on the occasion of 46th Civil Accounts Day (1st March). It was announced in the Union Budget 2022 to use the technology for facilitating the financial inclusion drive in India. The “Civil Accounts Day” is observed every year to mark the anniversary of the inception of the Indian Civil Accounts …

The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) has deployed PARAM Ganga-a High-Performance Computational (HPC) facility at IIT Roorkee, with a supercomputing capacity of 1.66 Petaflops. Earlier, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru installed the supercomputer ‘ParamPravega’. It has been established by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) under the approach of NSM. The basic idea behind building a …