Dr. Renu Swarup, Senior Adviser in the Department of Bio-technology, Ministry of Science & Technology has been awarded with National Entrepreneurship Award, 2017 under Mentor (Government) category in the Recognition Track. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the awards at the National Entrepreneurship Award Ceremony, 2017 in New Delhi. Dr Renu Swarup is presently Senior Adviser for Department of Biotechnology (DBT), ...

Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), an R&D wing of Ministry of Defence (MoD), is mandate to design and develop strategic, complex and security sensitive systems in the fields of missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, radars, electronic warfare systems, sonars combat vehicles, combat aircraft, sensors, etc. for the Armed Forces as per their specific Qualitative Requirements for enhancing the national security ...

140 research / studies on medicinal values of plants are being carried out by various government as well as private universities / research institutions/ organizations in India. Presently, research projects on various aspects (viz. literary research, survey, identification, documentation, micropropagation, agrotechnology, drug standardization, pharmacological and clinical research etc.) of medicinal plants are being supported by different Ministries/Departments of Government of ...

Dr. Harshvardhan, Minister of Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and Environment, Forests & Climate Change, has launched an app “Sagar Vani” on the occasion of Foundation Day of Ministry of Earth Sciences in New Delhi on July 27. ESSO-Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) under Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) provides ocean information services for the benefit of ...

Indi’s prestigious but low cost Mars Orbiter Mission has successfully completed 1000 days in its orbit on June 19, 2017, surviving well beyond its designed mission life of six months. All Scientific payloads continue to provide valuable data of Mars surface and its atmosphere. Mars Colour Camera on-board MOM has acquired more than 700 images of Martian surface. MOM atlas ...

India’s premier atomic research institution Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is also engaged in R&D work on the technology of preservation and hygienisation of food and agri-products by radiation. BARC has set up two technology demonstration units, one commissioned in the year 2000 for high dose irradiation at Vashi, Navi Mumbai, and another in 2002, for low dose irradiation, KRUSHAK ...