Government is committed to promote organic farming to increase soil health. A new scheme, Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) to develop organic clusters, was taken up from current year 2015-16. During the year, the agricultural research and education institutions of the ICAR, successfully generated and introduced technologies to boost farm production and incomes. Registration of seven new breeds of indigenous …
Scientists spot elusive space-time ripples
The highly elusive ‘gravitational waves’ have finally been detected. After decades of search for these ripples in space-time, which Albert Einstein predicted exactly 100 years ago, scientists working with the gigantic optical instruments in the U.S. called LIGO [Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory], have detected signals of gravitational waves emanating from two merging black holes 1.3 billion light years away arriving …
CSIR
CSIR-Tech Pvt. Ltd. has been involved in the work of technology commercialization for the last 3 years. Technology and intellectual property being developed at government funded institutions like CSIR, BARC, IITs, DST labs, DRDO is finding its way to touch common lives through CSIR-Tech Pvt Ltd. CSIR-Tech had does technology transfer to small and medium enterprises in India. It invests …
Borehole Geophysics Research Laboratory
A Borehole Geophysics Research Laboratory (BGRL) is being established by the Ministry of Earth Sciences at Karad to address challenging seismological problems of societal relevance through drilling investigations. BGRL was conceptualized as part of the Ministry’s programme of Scientific Deep Drilling in the Koyna Intra-plate Seismic Zone for geological investigations and modelling, dedicated to earthquake research in the area. Reservoir …
IISc’s invention powers up nanoelectronics industry
An invention by scientists at IISc is all set to make inroads into the billion-dollar nanoelectronics industry. This is disruptive because the technology can drastically reduce the cost of the existing state-of-the-art e-beam lithography and optical lithography. This invention is a new way to etch thin lines on a substrate using electrodes, termed electrolithography. This will come in very useful …