Sci-Tech

New Delhi: The growth of India's services sector eased in September from the recent high in August, as new business and activity expanded at slower rates, according to a monthly survey released Monday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services PMI Business Activity Index fell to...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday said that the approval for setting up 'NaMo Semiconductor Laboratory' at IIT, Bhubaneswar will boost research and enhance the state's role in the national and global semiconductor sector. CM Majhi also extended sincere gratitude to Prime Minister...

London: A research tie-up between Imperial College London and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay to harness quantum computing and biotechnology to help farmers grow stronger crops that are more resilient to climate change has emerged as a focus area ahead of British Prime...

New Delhi: Denying "contamination in cough syrups" that reportedly led to 11 child deaths in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, the government Friday issued an advisory to all states and union Territories, urging the rational use of such syrups in children. About nine children succumbed to...

Chennai/Bhubaneswar: Zoho Corporation is planning a new data centre in Odisha as it scales up its homegrown messaging app ‘Arattai’, Chief Scientist and Co-founder Sridhar Vembu said Tuesday. Launched in 2021, Arattai is a privacy-first messaging app. Voice and video calls are end-to-end encrypted, and...

New Delhi: Zoho Corporation will make its homegrown messaging app Arattai interoperable like UPI and email, as the platform witnesses an unprecedented surge in downloads, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Sridhar Vembu said Tuesday. Vembu said the company does not want Arattai to be a closed...

Rourkela: National Institute of Technology (NIT) researchers have developed an AI model that aims to improve how vehicles communicate with each other in vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), according to officials. The patented model, called 'Adaptive Contention Window Optimisation in VANETs using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning...

New Delhi: The imposition of a 100 per cent tariff by the US on imports of branded and patented pharmaceutical products starting October 1 may not significantly hurt Indian drug makers, with Sun Pharma being exposed to some headline risk but with limited earnings impact,...

New Delhi/Shimla: India's Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, perched high in the trans-Himalayan region, is among the 26 new biosphere reserves across several countries, designated by UNESCO, the world body announced Saturday. With this addition, India now has 13 biospheres listed in UNESCO's World Network of...

New Delhi: The first images from the joint NASA-ISRO satellite show a snapshot of the American landscape, ranging from narrow waterways, islets dotting the fringes of an island, forests and wetlands, and large swathes of farms. The first pictures from the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar...