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ONE DISTRICT ONE PRODUCT-DISTRICTS AS EXPORT HUBS

One District One Product-Districts as Export Hubs (ODOP-DEH) has mapped and tagged the overlapping products in Taj Hotels’ in-house luxury store, Khazana. The launch of this initiative was held in New Delhi today. On the occasion the ODOP-DEH launch and appreciated the variety of products on display, from across the …

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PRIMARY AGRICULTURAL CREDIT SOCIETIES (PACS)

PACS are village level cooperative credit societies that serve as the last link in a three-tier cooperative credit structure headed by the State Cooperative Banks (SCB) at the state level. Credit from the SCBs is transferred to the district central cooperative banks, or DCCBs, that operate at the district level. …

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FIGHTER JETS AT NYOMA, LADAKH

India is now all set to kick off the upgrade of the critical Nyoma advance landing ground (ALG) in eastern Ladakh to ensure it can also handle fighter operations, in the backdrop of China having consolidated all its air bases and military positions during the continuing 33-month military confrontation along …

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FORCED VIRGINITY TEST IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL: HC

The Delhi high court on Tuesday held that forced virginity test on persons in police or judicial custody is unconstitutional stating that strangely, though the word “virginity” may not have a definite scientific and medical definition, it has become a mark of purity of a woman. It is declared that …

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NEW FUEL FOR RAILWAYS

Trains Powered With Hydrogen Fuel Cells Don’t Emit Noxious Gases, Not Even Carbon Dioxide. They Will Cut Down Global Diesel Consumption By Millions Of Litres A Day By the end of this year you could ride up to Shimla in an electric train. Only, it will be an electric train …

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NISAR

Once launched into space, NISAR will provide critical information on Earth’s crust, ice sheets, and ecosystems, helping researchers better understand the causes and consequences of land surface changes. Jointly developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), an Earth-observation satellite, called NISAR …

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CHATGPT – BARD

ChatGPT in many ways is being called the end of Google Search, given that conversational AI can give long, essay style and sometimes elegant answers to a user’s queries. Google has finally decided to answer the challenge and threat posed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI and its AI chatbot, ChatGPT. The search …

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BALLOONING OPTIONS TO SPY

The saga of the alleged Chinese spy balloon over the United States ended in an anticlimactic puff of smoke on February 4 after an American F-22 shot down the airship over coastal waters in the Atlantic Ocean. News of the Chinese airship went public on February 3. This was not …

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TRAINING MODULE FOR INDIA’S HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT

Indian astronauts on India’s first human space flight mission Gaganyaan will undergo training with modules developed by IIT-Madras using extended reality (XR), which includes immersive technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) would utilize the advanced technologies created at the newly-established eXperiential Technology …

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E20 – ETHANOL BLENDING IN INDIA:

Indian Petrol Already Contains 10% Alcohol. The Launch of The E20 Pilot Can Help The Country Further Reduce Its Dependence On Fossil Fuels A pilot for ‘E20’, or petrol blended with 20% ethanol, at the ‘India Energy Week’ was launched. Ethanol Blending Ethyl alcohol or ethanol (C2H5OH) is a bio-fuel …

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