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New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister P Keshav on Saturday said the GST Council has sent its recommendation to exempt the fertilizer sector from the current 5 per cent GST to the Group of Ministers to rationalize the rates.The Council discussed the recommendations made by the Standing...

The meeting was attended by Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, Chief Ministers of Goa, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim; Deputy Chief Ministers of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Telangana; The Finance Minister and other Ministers of State; and senior...

Rochester, The space environment is harsh and full of extreme radiation. Scientists who design spacecraft and satellites need materials that can withstand these conditions.In a paper published in January 2024, my team of materials researchers demonstrated that a next-generation semiconductor...

New Delhi [India], ND Industries has partnered with leading entities in the defense and aerospace sector to set up a green field defense testing facility in Lucknow under the DTIS scheme, the company informed the exchange in a filing on Monday.A Green Field Defense Testing Facility is being...

Sydney, Microfactories, an innovative approach to extracting value from waste materials, point the way to sustainable production and consumption.At a waste depot in Shoalhaven, NSW, 200km south of Sydney, old mattresses, clothes and dirty glass left over from household recycling are being...

Bengaluru: More innovations and understanding the chemistry of waste materials will help in finding ways to reuse solid waste, experts suggested during a panel discussion held at Bengaluru International Center on June 9.One of the panelists, Mariam Shankar, co-founder of The Anonymous Indian...

In the town of Tlapanala, on Sunday, attackers stole electoral materials from a polling station and fled, sparking a gunfight with police who were pursuing them.A woman died in the firing. The police arrested many attackers.In a separate but similar incident, one person was killed and...

New Delhi, India on Sunday sent 90 tonnes of pharmaceutical materials to Cuba as part of its humanitarian assistance to the island nation.Cuba is suffering from shortages of essential goods, food and medicines."The Government of India is providing humanitarian assistance to the Government of...

New Delhi: Construction materials supplier Infra.Market arm RDC Concrete has raised around US$20 million from investors to expand its business.In a statement on Friday, Infra.Markets said it has "sold a minority stake in its subsidiary RDC Concrete to certain investors.""The company has...

Moharana, among some others, was honored by PM Modi during Wednesday's meeting.He said, “I never thought of meeting PM Modi. I am very happy to get the opportunity to see PM Modi,” said an excited Mohana.He also praised PM Modi for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya.The 65-year-old...

New Delhi: The Delhi Municipal Corporation has issued an advisory to prevent incidents of fire in health facilities here and sought an action taken report by May 31.The advisory comes after six newborns died in a fire at a private children's hospital in east Delhi on Saturday night.The...

New Delhi: Construction materials manufacturing company Startup Infra.Market has raised US $ 50 million from MARS Unicorn Fund to expand its business.In a statement, the company, which is valued at US$2.5 billion, said it had "successfully closed additional funding from the MARS Unicorn Fund...

This is in line with the DIA CoE established by DRDO in premier academic institutions of the country, through which it aims to create an ecosystem to facilitate technology development in the academic environment through the efforts of various scientists as well as experienced faculty and...

Sydney: Devastating landslides struck several remote villages in Papua New Guinea's mountainous Enga province late last week.Although it is too early for official confirmation, estimates put the death toll between 690 and 2,000, with thousands missing. The recovery of only a few bodies is a...

New Delhi [India], Amid the ongoing reforms at the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), the Center on Monday granted a one-year extension to the research agency's chief Dr Sameer V Kamat. Dr Sameer V Kamat, Secretary, Department of Defense Research and Development and Chairman...

New Delhi: Aditya Birla Group company UltraTech Cement on Monday said it has made an offer to White Cement & Construction Materials PSC (RAKWCT) to acquire 31.6 per cent stake in UAE-based RAK Cement Company.This will be undertaken by UltraTech Cement Middle East Investments Limited (UCMEIL)...

Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Three Kashmiri fashion designers, Arv Shah, Mir Manal and Armaan Asif participated in Times Fashion Week Mumba for the first time and represented Kashmir. The designers conceived a unique collection that took months of careful planning and sourcing of...

Washington [US], Researchers have integrated multiple X-ray imaging methods to produce multi-contrast images that can be used in thousands of complex scenarios to identify potentially hazardous materials such as explosives, security screening and May benefit from applications in biological and...

Guwahati (Assam) [India], Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and Columbine University, USA, have developed an unprecedented method for nanopatterning using a simple tabletop IR laser. Dr Rishi Maity, II Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Guwahati, formerly...

New Delhi: The National Council for Cement and Building Materials, an organization of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has established an incubation center for the manufacturing sector.The Center will support innovative and technology-driven knowledge-based entrepreneurship or startups...