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, …

A draft Bill, aimed at protecting India’s geological heritage that includes fossils, sedimentary rocks, natural structures, has raised alarm in India’s geo-sciences and palaeontology community. The Draft Geo-heritage Sites and Geo-relics (Preservation and Maintenance) Bill, 2022, while deemed necessary by several researchers, vests powers entirely in the Geological Survey of …

Terming the need for strong relations between India and the U.K. “mission critical”, U.K. Minister for Defence Procurement Alex Chalk pitched for collaboration in high-end defence technologies, including jet engine technology. He also pitched for cooperation in supply chain resilience, which had been brought to the fore in the war …

On December 24, 2009, a tunnel boring machine in Joshimath, Uttarakhand, hit an aquifer about three kilometres from Selang village. This resulted in the loss of nearly 800 litres of water per second (enough to sustain the needs of nearly 30 lakh people per day). Soon after, groundwater sources began …