Second Advance Estimates of production of major crops for agricultural year 2022-23 have been released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar said that foodgrain production of 3235.54 Lakh Tonnes is estimated in the current agricultural year. …

Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet to Google with its $10 billion check to OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research firm behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. The investment is targeted at packing AI capabilities into Microsoft’s search, software and cloud systems over the next few years. And, at the top of that …

News of the discovery of “5.9 million tonnes inferred resources of lithium” in the Salal-Haimana area of Reasi district, Jammu & Kashmir, by the Geological Survey of India has been received as a game-changer in India’s impending transition to a green economy. The term ‘inferred’ refers to the ‘preliminary exploration …

On February 6, when the disaster struck, three truckloads of relief material consisting of life-saving emergency medicines and protective items were arranged at the Hindon airbase within 12 hours. The consignment consisted of 5,945 tonnes of emergency relief material which included 27 life-saving medicines, two kinds of protective items and …

The normally peaceful residents of Ladakh are in agitation mode. They are set to gather in Delhi today to pursue their demand for special constitutional status, which would allow them to decide on a development path that safeguards the region’s fragile ecological and cultural heritage. On January 26, one of …

The estimation in Census 2011, that 2.21% of India’s population is disabled is a gross underestimation. According to the World Health Organization, about 16% of the global population is disabled. If that figure is extrapolated to the Indian context, it would mean at least 192 million disabled people. While technology …

A strike on the Adani group by short-seller the U.S.-based Hindenburg Research has led to the unravelling of the Gautam Adani story, which celebrated the spectacular rise, in an extremely short period of time, of the wealth of a man and his business empire. Much of that wealth disappeared following …

Sporadically, but surely, palaeontologists report intriguing discoveries from India. In January, a team discovered 92 dinosaur nesting sites with 256 fossilised eggs of the titanosaurus — among the largest of its kind, from 100-66 million years ago, when ‘India’ was a continent and yet to merge into the Eurasian land …

Just five days after Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das asserted that inflation ‘has shown signs of moderation and the worst is behind us’, Monday’s release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) estimates for January revealed a disconcerting reversal in price gains trend. Headline retail inflation, which had steadily eased …

Fighting future wars with complete indigenous systems is a work in progress, setting a timeline of eight to 10 years to attain the goal. The Russia-Ukraine conflict held key lessons in this quest. It has brought out the fact that it is important to be self-reliant in niche technologies to …

ChatGPT is fun and provides us with various contents but its also making the cyber criminal’s life easier. While OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, has built barriers to stop malicious content creation on the platform, criminals are working their way around these to create phishing emails and malware code. Generative AI …

Till the onset of the green revolution, millets used to be staple food for many communities in India. They were 25% of the staple food supply in the early 1970s. However, the green revolution technology and policy environment gave rice and wheat a strong advantage over millets. This led to …

At night, light from homes and streets reflects off Earth’s surface, leading to a constant ‘haze’ that makes celestial bodies hard to see. This is most noticeable in urban environments where even bright celestial bodies are barely visible to the naked eye. Artificial Light management The Indian Institute of Astrophysics …

Hanle Dark Sky Reserve Is Expected To Boost Tourism And Wildlife Conservation At High Altitude India’s first ‘dark sky reserve’ or night sky sanctuary,lies at an elevation of 4,500m above sea level in a cluster of six hamlets that form Han le village inside the Changthang Cold Desert Wildlife Sanctuary …

A lot rides on lithium in the age of electric mobility and personal devices. But the lightest metal known to humans is also famously scarce. Hence, the discovery of lithium deposits in J&K could come as a potential game changer for India. Chethan Kumar breaks it down. Lithium Referred to …

Underlining how climate change-linked rise in sea level poses a threat to countries like India, China, Bangladesh and the Netherlands, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said the rise has been 4. 5mm per year during 2013-22. It could continue through this century, recording a total rise of 0. 6m by 2100, …