Day: 29 August 2024

Yesterday, Wednesday, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the green signal to the development of 12 industrial smart cities in six major industrial corridors across 10 states, with an estimated investment of Rs 28,602 crore. These projects are designed to attract large investments, with around Rs 1.52 trillion expected from both large anchor industries and MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises). The initiative is estimated to generate 1 million direct and 3 million indirect investments. These smart industrial cities, part of…

The project, being executed at TIFR Mumbai's Colaba campus, is a tripartite collaboration between DYSL-QT, TIFR and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). DYSL-QT scientists put together the control and measurement equipment using a combination of commercial off-the-shelf electronics and custom-programmed development boards. The qubits were designed and fabricated at TIFR and the quantum processor architecture is based on an innovative ring-resonator design invented at TIFR. The cloud-based interface for the quantum hardware has been developed by TCS. The scientists are now working on optimising various aspects of the system's performance before…

Vice Admiral Rajesh Dhankhar NM took over as Director General, Project Seabird from Vice Admiral Tarun Sobti on 28 August 2024. He has been mandated to oversee the largest defence infrastructure project currently underway at Karwar Naval Base. The Change of Guard took place at Project Seabird Headquarters in New Delhi. Vice Admiral Rajesh Dhankhar was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 01 July 1990 and is a specialist in Navigation and Direction. Source

Mohali, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, synthesized a highly water-stable ultrathin Ni-BTC nanosheet with a thickness of about 4.15 nm. The 2D oxide sacrifice approach demonstrated exceptional sensitivity in detecting aliphatic amines and ammonia in aqueous medium through a unique “turn-on” fluorescence process in these MOF nanosheets, which is rare. The researchers used these to create a mixed matrix membrane of MOF nanosheets that showed a colour change visible to the naked eye in the presence of NH3 and aliphatic amines. The colour change response…

Researchers at the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, in collaboration with scientists from the National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune, have developed a safety warning system based on piezoelectric polymer nanocomposites. The development was based on the discovery that metal oxide nanomaterials with suitable crystal structure and surface properties when used as fillers in polymer composites significantly enhance the piezoelectric response. Energy generation and harvesting from readily available sources is important in today's world. Mechanical energy is an…