The NITI Aayog Frontier Technologies CIC's mission is to identify and deploy leading edge technologies to drive continuous innovation in delivering citizen services

Modi insisted on continued social distancing and COVID-appropriate behaviour such as wearing masks, regularly washing hands and sanitation, especially during upcoming festival season

An official statement from the PMO said the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting will convene this year virtually from October 19 to 21, bringing together policymakers and science leaders

India participated in the trials too. In a statement issued on Friday, ICMR concluded the same and said there were no benefits of remdesivir in any of the patients

Chairing a review meeting of the research and vaccine deployment ecosystem against the pandemic, the prime minister underscored the need for continuous and rigorous scientific testing and validation of traditional medicine treatments

Coronavirus vaccine update: Biopharma company Epygen Biotech with operations in Mumbai and Dubai is planning to launch an affordable COVID-19 vaccine with an aim to roll out 500 million doses within six months

Kant, while addressing a virtual FICCI event, further said the government is finalising its plans to expand its production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme to more sectors for boosting domestic manufacturing

All ministries and departments have been asked to expedite asset monetisation exercise and meet the timelines set for each project

Winemakers Kapil Sekhri co-founded Fratelli Wines after launching his vineyard in Akluj area of Maharashtra in 2006; Fratelli is first Indo-Italian wine in the country

Coronavirus update: The Health Ministry said that five states have the maximum caseload in the country -- Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu

Dr Arvind Krishna, CEO, IBM, says India can lead the AI technology revolution since it has the world's largest community of developers, a large startup ecosystem, and a strong scientific and engineering culture

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said a high-level expert group is going into all the aspects of vaccines and the health ministry is preparing a format in which states will submit lists of priority population groups

National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and MyGov CEO Abhishek Singh said that the Meity will soon approach the Cabinet for a policy to launch AI-based programmes

Department of Fertilisers under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers has been ranked 3rd out of the 65 Ministries / Departments with a score 4.11 on a scale of 5 on Data Governance Quality Index

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of India's most valued firm Reliance Industries, has topped the list of richest Indians for the ninth consecutive year, with a net worth of Rs 6,58,400 crore; The government has expressed concerns that the COVID-19 outbreak might get worse during the festive season followed by the winter season; Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee on Tuesday said India is among the worst performing economies in the world and the government's economic stimulus was inadequate to tackle the problem. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Is fiscal stimulus on cards by Diwali? FM Sitharaman has this to say

Government wants to promote the domestic telecom equipment industry by keeping out Chinese vendors. But that's easier said than done

COVID-19 impact: Large companies maintaining digital transformation budgets, says TCSA significant number of large enterprises have either maintained their digital transformation budget or increased it even as the COVID-19 pandemic as impacted revenue of businesses globally, according to a survey by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Prior to the pandemic, the average organisation surveyed had only 9 per cent of its workforce working mostly from home. That percentage has increased seven-fold a...

Although, experts have observed that seasonal changes have had little effect on the spread of coronavirus. In the case of winters, experts have appealed for additional precautions

It's not an easy task for a regulator to keep everyone happy but having consensus of all major stakeholders on key policy issues could drive the telecom sector to new heights under Vaghela

A proposal drafted by NITI Aayog, a federal think tank chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said India could slash its oil import bills by as much as $40 billion by 2030 if electric vehicles were widely adopted