On 28th February every year, India celebrates the National Science Day to mark the glorious achievement of one of India’s best-known scientists, Nobel Laureate physicist Sir C V Raman. On this day in 1928, Sir C V Raman discovered the spectroscopy phenomenon that was named after him as the ‘Raman Effect’. He has inspired the nation to build its scientific and technological prowess for the welfare of the citizens.

Re-monetization is a wicked problem and there is no standard policy prescription available in policy sciences (e.g. economics). This is what has led Amartya Sen to label re-monetization as an “unguided missile”. Conventionally, policy makers deal with tame problems or guided missiles.

Robots are becoming more interactive in assisting human beings in their daily lives, world over. They are now serving humanity in the fields of industry, defense and medicine.

In his monthly address to the nation through Mann Ki Baat, Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi mentioned the Economic Diplomacy Division of the Ministry of External Affairs, MyGov and NITI Aayog for successfully hosting a national competition on social innovation.

Recently, the Isha foundation has started one-week leadership training for All-India Service officers. By learning and doing Shambhavi Maha Mudra the inner self can be re-engineered, which in turn leads to making leaders of administrators. In order to understand this let us see how administrators decide and what parts of the brain they use.

Jeli Kayi, the sensational singer of Arunachal Pradesh, has joined in the cause to turn Itanagar into a smart city! As the entire nation already knows, Jeli made it to the top 12 contestants of the popular Reality TV show, Indian Idol 2016. Ever since the show concluded, he has been enjoying huge admiration and support all across India.

Forget the US versus Russia. The real space race is taking place in Asia.” This comment came in from the CNN soon after ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organization) recent launch. Considering the cartoon released by The New York Times after ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission launch in 2014, this news story is indeed a step in the positive direction.

Itanagar is among the list of 11 cities, also including Shimla, Jammu, Bangalore, Patna, Amaravati and Srinagar, which have been given wildcard entries to the Government of India’s smart city mission. While several discussions, competitions, polls have been announced to spark up the Smart City Itanagar initiative on the Government’s website (www.mygov.in), further details will be uploaded on the website in due course to invite public opinions on the proposed projects for the city.

In its unending quest to bring affordable health care solutions and diagnostic practices CSIR-CCMB is working towards “Affordable clinical diagnostic using paper-based Microfluidics devices using micro and nanotechnological approaches”, such as blood typing, ESR, pregnancy kits (livestocks), cholesterol, low temperature molecular diagnosis (nucleic acid detection) etc. apart from tools such as non-expensive subtract for surface enhance Raman spectroscopy (SERS).

With the continued support of MyGov and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), anchored by T-Hub Foundation, #IFDIChallenge2.0 has revealed its top 3 winning teams. Allizhealth, iNICU & iCHR and Banyan Nation are the top three teams of the Intel & DST – Innovate for Digital India Challenge 2.0 (Challenge 2.0). They will receive a grant worth INR 5,00,000, per team.