News: To ensure women safety, PM has told mobile phone manufacturers they need to incorporate a panic button on handsets sold in the country. The administration is of the view that emergency response apps can take too long to access in a rush— configuring one of the existing buttons on ...

News: Some of India’s dark patches could soon get futuristic luminous highways. These highways, costing just 15-20 per cent more than regular highways, do not require any street lights and come to light on their own as a photo-luminescent coating similar to glow-in-the-dark paint creates ethereal looking lines that get charged by ...

News: Government has given an in-principle nod for Madrid-based locomotive-maker Talgo to undertake trial runs of its lighter and faster trains that could cut travel time between Mumbai and Delhi from 17 hours to 12 hours without overhauling India’s ageing rail tracks. The trial train to India will come by ...

News: Sony Corp has entered into an agreement to manufacture its Bravia line of televisions at Taiwanese contract manufacturer major Foxconn’s plant near Chennai. It is also evaluating the possibility of making smartphones in the country and may eventually set up its own plant in India. The government’s ‘Make in ...

News: The government is planning to train some 3,000 beggars to sing much like the bards of yore about the signature plans like Beti Bachao Beti Padao, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and many other initiatives on local trains in major cities with a view to popularise them among urban commuter folk. ...

News: Under the ‘Pension at Doorstep’ scheme, 44,750 beneficiaries from the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC), three other municipalities in the district, 49 mandals and 291 places would be given pension for August. Addressing the beneficiaries at Leprosy Colony in Gannavaram mandal in the city, the Collector said “The scheme would ...

News: Pasighat is the only city in Arunachal Pradesh which fulfills the condition of having an existing master plan or a proposed one for being selected as a smart city under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme, launched by Union government. Basic objective of this mission ...

Blog: What if India had not invented the zero? Perhaps computers would not have seen the light of the day and the world would not be connected through information technology. With the Digital India programme, India may have an opportunity to inspire and transform the world yet again. Sixty years ...

News: The defence ministry has invited 10 companies to bid for a Rs 60,000-crore project to manufacture futuristic infantry combat vehicles (FICVs) in India. Several major players like Tata, Mahindra, Larsen and Toubro, Pipavav, Bharat Forge and Punj Lloyd have been asked by the defence ministry to submit their bids ...

News: At IIT Kharagpur, a group of students is working on technology that may help power micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) or mini-drones for Boeing. These are deployed in hazardous environments not accessible to ground vehicles and often used for aerial photography. Global and Indian aerospace firms are increasingly seeking out technical ...