Google CEO Sundar Pichai is visiting India next week on his first overseas trip after taking over as the head of the tech giant to host a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday. He will also address Delhi University’s Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) on December 17. Pichai will deliver the keynote address…
BENGALURU: India remains the No. 1 location for MNCs to establish product engineering and R&D centres outside their home countries, and the growth of these centres in India is outpacing the average global growth. India accounted for $12.3 billion, or 40%, of the total of $31 billion of globalized engineering and R&D in 2015, according…
It’s time we move away from the American Global Positioning System (GPS) and make way for our own desi navigation system — the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System or IRNSS on our mobile phones. Beginning Thursday, Isro will hold a major meeting in Bangalore involving location and navigation device manufacturers, mobile phone manufacturers and global…
2015’s El Niño on course to being the strongest ever. The highest daily rainfall in a century. Freak weather conditions on one day. The hottest-ever Indian Ocean. The strongest-ever El Niño. The hottest year on record. The bad news is that a perfect storm of meteorological conditions combined to create Chennai’s worst-ever deluge last week,…
IIT-Madras students may lose out on good offers to other IITs in the country as Chennai continues to be in the grip of torrential rains, rendering its campus out of bounds, which has forced the institute to defer its placement process for the first time. The engineering institute has rescheduled the placements to December 5…
Prime Minister points to country’s ambitious target of producing 175 GW of renewable energy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India would fulfil all its responsibilities with regard to climate change as he met U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the climate summit in Paris. Mr. Modi, in his meeting with Mr….
An injectable vaccine to prevent re-emergence of polio was launched today by the government and it will be administered in addition to polio drops to double the protection from the deadly virus, which has chances of coming back. The Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) will be introduced in the routine immunisation programme of the government to…
In a country where women often have to walk miles to find and collect drinking water for their families, the WaterMaker project to produce water from thin air is no less than magical. It is, in the words of one grateful recipient, “khuda ka paani.” What is the first thing that comes to mind when…
Authorities near Chennai have sent back rain-affected families from a relief centre so that the school that was turned into a shelter can reopen, the families claim. Latha Vijayan, a domestic help is back to knee deep sewage contaminated waters back home at Varadarajapuram. Last week floods inundated her home and she had to take…
New Delhi: Hand-written passports of Indian citizens are no longer valid from Wednesday as per government’s directive. The government had asked those having hand-written passports to get machine-readable ones having bar codes by 24 November. The government had decided to discontinue hand-written passports in accordance with recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to…