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Int'l Women's Day: UN calls for innovation, technology for gender equality

UN has chosen the theme 'DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality' for Women's Day 2023 to examine the impact of the digital gender gap on widening economic and social inequality

From seeker, India now a solution-giver: President Droupadi Murmu

Describing Modi govt as 'decisive', she highlights its achievements - from infra ramp-up to digital boost

India's G20 presidency: B20 meet in Gujarat to discuss climate, innovation

The Business 20 (B20) inception meeting being organised in Gujarat's Gandhinagar city from Sunday as part of India's G20 presidency will deliberate on issues ranging from climate change, innovation, global digital cooperation and resilient global value chains, officials said here. As part of the three-day meeting, delegates will be taken for a visit to Dandi Kutir, a museum on Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhinagar, on Sunday evening, Gujarat finance department's principal secretary Mona Khandhar told reporters. The B20 India 2023 dialogue will take place under the theme of 'RAISE,' an acronym for Responsible, Accelerated, Innovative, Sustainable and Equitable Businesses, she said. A plenary session for the B20 meeting will be organised at the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar on Monday in which Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant will take part, the official said. "The plenary sessio

Tata Steel sets up Centre for Innovation in Mobility at IIT-M Research Park

The Centre for Innovation in Mobility is in addition to the state-of-the-art centre application centre at Jamshedpur

Govt to release norms to support startups' innovation in technical textiles

The government will soon release guidelines to support startups interested in undertaking research and innovation in the technical textiles segment and is contemplating a grant of up to Rs 50 lakh for approved proposals, a top official said on Thursday. Responding to a query by PTI, Secretary in the Textiles Ministry Rachna Shah said that she is hopeful that the norms will be unveiled in a month's time. "We would have an evaluation committee which would decide on approving grant for that, so the grant would be up to Rs 50 lakh, that is what we are looking at," Shah said. Hopefully within a month or so, we will be able to have the guidelines, she added. Addressing a press briefing, the secretary informed that the government is looking at measures to cut India's heavy import dependence on machinery and specialty fibre for the technical textiles sector.

Smartest among them all, ChatGPT to help other bots in innovation

The free-to-use prototype has been trained on a massive amount of text data and uses deep learning algorithms to generate natural language text similar to human writing

Indian innovation brings affordability to services: Taranjit Sandhu

India's innovation brings affordability to products and services across the world and is contributing to sustainability efforts, Indian Ambassador to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu said. Inaugurating a conference on "India-US partnership for Innovation" virtually in New York on Friday, Sandhu said new thought and innovation are also leading to a strong entrepreneurial culture in India. The conference was jointly organised by Northeastern University and the Consulate General of India. Sandhu said the India-US partnership has unique strengths to drive the world of innovation. "We are already invested in clean energy partnership, in making the global supply chain more resilient and in harnessing the value of new and emerging technologies. As strategic partners, we have a clear roadmap ahead to innovate, build and prosper," he said. "We have been able to bring in scale and speed in our innovation. An example would be our massive effort to vaccinate our population, administeri

Global Innovation Index 2022: India up 6 spots, first time in top 40

This was mainly due to an improvement in information and communication technologies (ICT) services exports, venture capital recipients' value as well as finance for start-ups.

IT Ministry, Meta to fund 40 start-ups working in extended reality tech

The programme will give Rs 20 lakh each to the start-ups and it will include a challenge aimed at promoting XR

Atmanirbhar push: PM Narendra Modi for innovation in defence products

"The world is seeing that India is changing. There is hope from India and the reason is the skills of 1.3 billion Indians," the PM said

DU sets up firm to promote innovation, another in pipeline for funding: VC

"We have set up one company to encourage new startups and innovation in the varsity and we are in search for its CEO. The company will work on incubators and promote innovation," VC Yogesh Singh said

Rajeev Chandrasekhar meets Johnson, talks India-UK ties in innovation, tech

Chandrasekhar outlined the rapid strides taken by India in the field of technology, and informed that the country is designing 5G gear and manufacturing devices that go into making of 5G products.

Linking science and innovation

Innovation needs technology to lead science, and product development to lead research

JLR launches innovation strategy to accelerate modern luxury vision

Jaguar Land Rover said it has initiated "Open Innovation strategy", to accelerate next-generation technology and sustainability

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HCL Tech sets up Innovation Centre on engineering and R&D in Canada

HCL Technologies on Friday said it has opened an Innovation Centre focused on Engineering and R&D services in Edmonton, Alberta. Bringing together an ecosystem of partners from academia, government institutions, startups and technology providers, HCL Technologies' Innovation Centre will serve as a hub for HCL Engineering teams to co-innovate with customers and solve complex business problems for clients globally, a statement said. The team will be engaged in product engineering, platform engineering, operational technology services and next-generation engineering, research and development, it added. The centre will house an engineering and co-innovation lab, which will enable high tech and software clients, including Fortune 100 leaders, to not only envision their products, but also to see rapid product prototyping, collaborative research and continuous learning to create faster time to market, the statement said. Clients can leverage the centre to create new product designs, ...

Lead start-up, innovation movement: Assam CM Himanta to Gauhati

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma urged Gauhati University to lead a start-up and innovation movement in the state and assured the institute that it will get all support from the government.

Govt agency ties up with Amazon for products by grassroot innovators

Student creativity-based innovative products will be available to millions of customers by virtue of a new partnership between NIFientreC and Amazon India launched on Wednesday.

Explained: How Covid-fuelled innovations will change our today, tomorrow

The pandemic has hastened medical and tech research, the benefits of which will be visible this year and beyond

Atal Innovation rankings: Seven IITs among top 10; IIT Madras comes first

IISc Bengaluru has bagged the sixth rank