Technology

India’s higher education system lags behind in infrastructure, quality teaching, and investment in research. Indian universities have produced CEOs at companies from Microsoft Corp. to Google; now Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes they can get even better with competition from global names like Yale, Oxford and Stanford. Prime Minister Modi’s …

Written by Shivam Patel, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 8, 2020 1:42:45 pm A worker burns wheat stubble in his field in Ludhiana. (Express photo: Gurmeet Singh) The rice stubble burning season is here, and satellite remote sensing data from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute …

India’s national security planners are reflecting on a security architecture that eliminates enemy countries from participating in core sectors such as energy, telecommunications and highways by verifying the origin of imported equipment into the country and testing its reliability, people familiar with the matter told the Hindustan Times. In addition, …

Written by Harikishan Sharma | New Delhi | Updated: October 8, 2020 1:43:44 pm The first six days of October saw five times the number of stubble burning incidents in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh than in the corresponding period last year, official data shows. (Representative image) The first six …

Written by Amitabh Sinha | Pune | Updated: October 8, 2020 7:25:53 am First, the researchers artificially create a guide RNA, which helps guide the genetic scissors to the place in the genome where the cut will be made. To edit a gene, they specially design a small DNA template. …

NEW DELHI: The India-Japan Foreign Ministers’ 13th Strategic Dialogue on Wednesday saw the two sides finalize the text of a cybersecurity agreement promoting cooperation on 5G, Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence ( IA) in addition to security and resilience. in the areas of Critical Information Infrastructure. While the …

Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery of CRISPR, which has been described as a kind of editing software that can be used on DNA (which is information …

New Delhi: Malayalam journalist Siddique Kappan and three other people who were arrested by UP police in Mathura on Monday while on their way to Hathras have been arrested under the provisions of the Illicit Activity (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and sedition . On Tuesday, a local Mathura court referred them …

By: Education Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 7, 2020 9:20:14 pm UGC issued a fake college roster. (Express photo by Abhinav Saha / Representative Image) Before college admissions, the College Scholarship Commission (UGC) has published the latest list of fake colleges. A total of 24 universities have made …

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that authorities, in the future, should not allow Shaheen Bagh-style protests that involve blocking roads and public spaces, and said such expressions of dissent should be organized in designated places without causing nuisance to the public. in general. To strike a balance …