Ministry of Railways takes an important decision to ease procurement norms and improve ease of doing business

As per extant procurement norms of Indian Railways, identified Safety and Critical items where quality is of paramount importance, are procured from Vendors approved by its nominated vendor approving agencies for the item. Recently decision has been taken that a Vendor, approved for an item by any of the Vendor Approving Agency of Indian Railways … Read more

Children, women, scientists & employees watched the solar eclipse from DST campus

Children, women, scientists, and other officials and staff members enjoyed watching the spectacular celestial event and experienced the thrill of being able to witness the phenomenon of light and shadow that causes an eclipse. Specially designed goggles made of metallic mylar film were provided to the individual viewers produced earlier by NCSTC and Vigyan Prasar. … Read more

IACS Kolkata inspire faculty’s work on Black Holes and Gravitational Waves to help understanding fundamentals of our nature

The techniques developed through his theoretical work in these areas are now routinely being used in various analyses involving black holes and its various other incarnations. Dr. Chakraborty’s research work is primarily focused on the areas of Gravitational physics and, in particular black holes. The recent progress in gravitational wave astronomy and black hole shadow measurement … Read more

US Secretary of State describes China rogue nation which escalated border tension with India

During an online conference on democracy at Copenhagen in Denmark, he said, People’s Liberation Army of China has escalated border tensions with India, the world’s largest democracy.   Pompeo said, China is militarising the South China Sea and illegally claiming more territory there, threatening vital sea lanes. He said democracies and freedom-loving peoples of the … Read more