Day: 9 December 2023

In a significant step to accelerate digitalization in coal mines, a team of robotics researchers from IIT Roorkee conducted trials in the opencast mines of South Eastern Coalfields Limited, a subsidiary of Chhattisgarh-based Coal India. The team at IIT Roorkee is currently working on developing drones for coal mines under their project “Design and Development of an Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle applied for Open Cast Minefield Surveillance for Real Time Monitoring, Hazards and Vulnerability Assessment”. Is working. Under this project the team has started working on developing a drone to overcome…

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The bottom molding program for the fourth ship (BY 526, Malpe) and fifth ship (BY 527, Mulki) of Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC) (CSL) project is headed by Chief of Staff Rear, Southern Navy respectively. Admiral Jaswinder Singh and Admiral Superintendent Rear Admiral Subir Mukherjee, NSRY (KOC) on 08 Dec 23 in the presence of Shri Madhu S Nair, CMD, Cochin Shipyard Limited and CSL, Kochi, Indian Navy and other senior officers of the Shipyard. These ships with all major and supporting equipment/systems sourced from indigenous manufacturers are the…

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Kavach, an indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, has so far been deployed on 1465 route km and 139 locomotives, the government told Parliament on Friday. “At present, Kavach tenders have been awarded for Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah corridors (about 3000 route km) and work on these routes is in progress,” the Railway Minister said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha. Indian Railways has also started preparatory work including preparation of survey, Detailed Project Report (DPR) and detailed estimates on another 6000 RKM. There are currently three Indian OEMs that…

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