Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
A protein released by the silkworm can make bones the importance of the silkworm has increased. It can not only produce silk but also prevent bone loss in people undergoing hormonal therapy for breast, prostate and malignant bone cancers. Silkworm proteins, called fibroins, are extensively used to make medical sutures …
IIT Bombay's suggestion to divert the course of Mithi river alongside the internal boundary of the airport - which is the most viable option to prevent flooding of the river has already mired in controversy with both the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) locking …
The first phase of IIT Madras Research Park, a global centre for research and development for companies, is likely to be completed by July, after a two-year time over-run. Professor Ananth, Director, IIT Madras, told Business Line that the first phase would comprise four lakh sq feet, one-fourth of the …
Parul Sharma NEW DELHI: Applying science and technology to suit the needs of rural areas, a student of Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi has designed a 130-litre
With iron oxide nanoparticles The millions of arsenic victims living in Bangladesh and India have another option for obtaining clean drinking water. Finely divided iron oxide nanoparticles (ionps) can remove arsenic from contaminated water. Iron-containing compounds have been used in purifying groundwater. By the property of adsorption, arsenic can bind …
The global economy is undergoing a major shift. For a nation to be competitive it must strengthen its research agenda, become innovative, strengthen and protect its intellectual property, and find resources for the continuing education of its citizens.
Mumbai The residents opposing the elevated Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd Metro corridor are conducting their own feasibility study of the proposed underground stretch between Andheri and Bandra with the help of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B). The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), the nodal agency for the implementation of the …
Facing flak from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) and Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Transport over the Bus Rapid Transit Corridor project between Ambedkar Nagar and Delhi Gate, the Delhi Government has turned the heat on the Indian Institute of Technology, the brain behind the controversial project. …
Mumbai: In a move that will provide impetus to development of innovation, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) will now facilitate dissemination, commercialization and public utilization of inventions by students and faculty members. It would be done in collaboration with Intellectual Ventures, a company that deals with funding inventions …
The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and the Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) have initiated a two-year study on saving fuel and ways to achieve better traffic management. The study will assess fuel emission by vehicles under different driving conditions and ways to save fuel in Delhi and Mumbai. The …
Mumbai: In a few months from now, IIT Bombay's vehicles like buses, cars and ambulances could well be run by using fuel produced from the first campus bio-diesel plant in India -- installed by students of the institute's chemical engineering department. Started in March 2008, the project called 'Biosynth' is …
A professor in electrical engineering at the Delhi IIT will team up with a researcher of the University of British Columbia to conduct joint research on the most pressing problems of wireless communication system design. The award to the Indo-Canadian team is at the behest of the International Research Chairs …
LUCKNOW: Taking serious note of illegal mining along river with the help of heavy machines in Uttar Pradesh, the high court on Friday constituted a probe committee to be presided by the Geological Survey of India. The court has directed the committee to submit its report in a sealed cover …
