The Centre for Research on Start-ups and Risk Financing (CREST) an Institute of Eminence Research Centre at IIT Madras has developed India’s first information platform on incubators and accelerators. It includes data on more than 920 incubators and accelerators, Comprehensive information on each incubator such as host organization, startup funding agency, number of startups supported, investors who have invested in the startups …

Disordered screen use shares characteristics with behavioural addictions like problem gambling, and some people may even develop symptoms of severe dependency like those associated with addictions to alcohol and illicit substances.   In a research first, an analysis of all the available evidence on the cognitive impacts of problematic screen use by researchers at Macquarie University has shown it interferes …

Lovely Professional University (LPU), Jalandhar is all set to host the 109th Indian Science Congress (ISC) from January 3 to 5, 2024.  It will be doing so for a second time after hosting it in 2019. The theme for the upcoming 109th ISC, ‘The Global Perspective on Science and Technology for a Sustainable Future,’ emphasizes the crucial role of global …

The week beginning November 18th to 24th, 2023 was designated as the World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise awareness about the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance and the importance of responsible use of antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines. The Department of Microbiology at the Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) under the leadership …

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) NPTEL – GATE portal (gate.nptel.ac.in) – has emerged as an important platform for aspirants aiming to ace this competitive examination. The NPTEL-GATE portal has received over 50,700 registrations. It also provides access to previous years’ questions (PYQs) from 2007-2022, covering more than 16 years of GATE exam topics. The portal has seen a significant increase in student participation in its …

Next 5 years may see 600+ technologies going from lab to market as the Department of Science & Technology (DST) supported ecosystem and NRF gets into industry-oriented collaborative research mindset and change in an effort to raise the technological profile of the country and spread it to academia. At the IIT Mandi iHub and HCI Foundation’s “HIVE Conclave” held in …