Made-in-India Petascale Supercomputer Installed at IIT Roorkee

Made-in-India Petascale Supercomputer Installed at IIT Roorkee

A Made in India Petascale Supercomputer “PARAM Ganga” has been installed at IIT Roorkee on Monday by B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, Chairman, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. The establishment of 1.66 PFLOPS (Peta Floating-Point Operations Per Second) supercomputing at IIT Roorkee by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) has been … Read more

India to resume scheduled commercial international flight services from March 27 after two-year hiatus

India to resume scheduled commercial international flight services from March 27 after two-year hiatus

India currently allows airlines to operate a limited number of flights to countries with which it has a bilateral arrangement. The Centre has decided to resume scheduled international flight services in India from March 27 after a two-year hiatus following a decline in coronavirus cases in the country, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) said … Read more

Virologist T Jacob ‘fairly confident’ that no fourth wave of coronavirus will occur in India

Virologist T Jacob ‘fairly confident’ that no fourth wave of coronavirus will occur in India

The third wave of COVID-19 had plateaued in India and the number of cases started declining after January 21 when 3,47,254 infections were reported. Noting that the third wave of COVID-19 has ended in India, eminent virologist Dr T Jacob John said he is “fairly confident” that no fourth wave will occur in the country … Read more

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman airs concern over rising crude oil price

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman airs concern over rising crude oil price

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday expressed concern over rising crude prices due to the Ukraine crisis and indicated that the central government is looking to tap alternative sources. At an interactive session organised by BJP‘s Karnataka unit, she was asked about the impact of rising crude prices and war in Ukraine on the … Read more

Women’s Day 2022: Cherishing the better halves with gratitude

Women’s Day 2022: Cherishing the better halves with gratitude

They have been at the forefront of various fields like education, science and technology. Be it the warrior queen Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi who fought for her people after her Husband’s demise or Shrimati Malavika Hegde who turned Coffee Cafe Day’s fortunes when she took the company in her hands after her husband’s demise. Women’s … Read more