KVIC starts reviving ancient glory of Pokhran potteries

Pokhran has over 300 potters’ families that are engaged with pottery for several decades, but potters started looking for other avenues due to heavy drudgery in the work and no market support. Apart from the electric wheels, the KVIC also distributed 8 blunger machines in a group of 10 potters, used for mixing the clay … Read more

NCERT launches Online Yoga Quiz Competition to promote integration of Yoga in school curriculum

NCERT has developed textual materials on Yoga for Healthy Living for Upper Primary to Secondary Stages and also has been organising Yoga Olympiad since 2016. In COVID-19 situation children are being guided by their teachers and parents at home to do yogic practices along with physical exercises based on Alternative Academic Calendar developed for different stages … Read more

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