Roorkee: Researchers at IIT-Roorkee, in collaboration with AIIMS-Delhi, have developed an app, ‘SwasthGarbh‘, for providing antenatal care and real-time medical support to pregnant women. This can be a vital tool for women in rural areas and those who do not have easy access to doctors or medical facilities, according to researchers. This is also the … Read more
Roorkee: A team of researchers at IIT-Roorkee have developed an easy-to-use breath-based cancer detector (BLO). Used for early detection of cancer, it will work on the principles of colorimetry. This device will be able to detect the presence of breast, lung and oral cancer, according to the researchers. The researchers — Indranil Lahiri, Partha Roy … Read more
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
Drones can be used in rural areas to improve the life of the people, besides monitoring and surveillance of standing crops, crowd management, search and rescue operations and mapping of infrastructure facilities. Like the internet and GPS before them, drones are evolving beyond their military origin to become powerful business tools. They have already made … Read more
NEW DELHI: The government has set up an expert panel to help draw up a master plan for every village, complete with a growth centre for its flagship produce, a digital training centre, and a township with accommodation facilities for teachers and health professionals. The government has roped in experts from IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, … Read more