QSim is the gateway for Indian scientists to take us in direction of future demands of computing power, MoS IT Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, launched QSim – Quantum Computer Simulator Toolkit, to enable Researchers and Stu ...

Ministry of Civil Aviation notifies liberalized Drone Rules, 2021

In March 2021, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) published the UAS Rules, 2021.  They were perceived by academia, Startups, end-users, and other stakeholders as bein ...

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh says, Trinity of Health, Agriculture and Water are bedrock of Science and Technology Collaboration between India and Netherlands

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, ...

DBT-BIRAC supported ZyCoV-D developed by Zydus Cadila Receives Emergency Use Authorization

Zydus Cadila has received approval for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for ZyCoV-D today i.e 20/08/2021, the world’s ...

Indigenous memory technology adoption for 180 nm CMOS production: A national milestone in semiconductor R&D

The natural world is analog while computing is digital. Computers perceive the natural world through sensorchips whose output is analog. The analog output is converted in ...

Private institutions to be included too for the development of technologies for Deep Ocean Mission: Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, ...

Decentralized Biomedical Waste Incinerator inaugurated in Buxar,Bihar by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India and Buxar District Administration

Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan virtually inaugurated a decentralized biomedical waste incinerator at Buxar Municipality, ...

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh calls for Global Scientific Collaboration for bringing “Ease of Living” for common man.

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, ...

National web portal for sharing R&D facilities I-STEM project has given extension for five years

The Indian Science Technology and Engineering facilities Map (I-STEM), the national web portal for sharing R&D facilities was formally launched in January 2020 by the Hon ...

Centre of Excellence of WASH at IIT Madras supported by NBCC (India) facilitated by Office of PSA, GoI

NBCC (India) Limited has provided CSR funding to set up a lab space at the Thaiyur campus (called the Discovery campus) of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT ...

Inter-Ministerial Cooperation for Promotion and Facilitation of Marine Resources in the field of Polar biology

A  (Memorandum of Understanding (MoU has been  signed here today between Department of Biotechnology and Ministry of Earth Sciences by Secretary, DBT and Secretary, MoE ...

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh Holds First-Ever Joint Meeting of all Science Ministries and Departments

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions ...

Cabinet approves India COVID-19 Emergency Response & Health Systems Preparedness Package: II

The Union Cabinet chaired by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today has approved a new scheme ‘India COVID-19 Emergency Response & Health System Preparednes ...

PM interacts with Directors of Centrally Funded Technical Institutions

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi interacted with more than 100 Heads of Centrally Funded Technical Institutions. PM said our technological and R&D institutions will pla ...

Atmanirbhar Krishi APP Launched by the O/o PSA, GoI

There is a wealth of information carefully curated by various departments of the government, which can be very relevant to the farmers but on different platforms and not ...

Cabinet approves Deep Ocean Mission

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the proposal of Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) on "Deep Ocean Miss ...

PROJECT O2 for INDIA

The second wave of COVID-19 saw an increase in demand for medical oxygen in different parts of the country. While meeting the current demand, manufacturing medical oxygen ...

COVID-19 Projects Facilitated by Office of Principal Scientific Adviser: Extension of Hospitals

As COVID-19 cases surged in different parts of the country, infrastructure in hospitals was under immense pressure.Innovative modular hospitals came as a huge relief amid ...

COMSOL Platform through I-STEM for academic researchers at no cost

For the first time in the country, through the I-STEM portal academic users in India will now be able to access the COMSOL Multiphysics software suite at no cost. The Ind ...

Union Ministry of Health finalises advance arrangement with M/s Biological-E Ltd., Hyderabad for 30 cr COVID19 Vaccine doses

Union Ministry of Health has finalised arrangements with Hyderabad based vaccine manufacturer Biological-E to reserve 30 crore of COVID-19 vaccine doses. These vaccine do ...

PSA releases advisory on "Stop the Transmission, Crush the Pandemic"

Innovative, Low Cost charging infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of EVs

India-UK virtual summit strengthens STI cooperation

Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser Releases Home care tips for managing COVID-19

The Office of the PSA to GoI has curated information and brought a simple visual reference to manage mild symptoms of COVID-19 at home- "Home care tips for managing COVID ...

PM addresses the nation on the COVID-19 situation

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressed the nation on the COVID-19 situation today. The Prime Minister expressed condolences for the lives lost to the pandemi ...

PM Modi interacts with vaccine manufacturers from across the country

PM Narendra Modi interacted with vaccine manufacturers from across the country via video conferencing. He applauded the vaccine manufacturers for their achievements and p ...

India’s ambitious targets of achieving 450 GW power generation by 2030 from renewables: Prof. Ashutosh Sharma

Eminent Experts, Scientists, and Technocrats from India and Japan discussed the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, and solutions adopted in the field of decarboni ...

Indian Genomic Consortium finishes genome sequencing of more than 13000 samples

The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) is a network of ten laboratories established in December 2020 for continuously monitoring the genomic changes of SARS- ...

Community Mental-Health Digital platform MANAS launched by the PSA

The PSA to the GoI Prof. K VijayRaghavan virtually launched the “MANAS” App to promote wellbeing across age groups. 

India learnt lessons from pandemic; not only became vaccine exporter but also its developer: VijayRaghavan

India rapidly learnt lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and not only became a vaccine exporter but also its developer, Principal Scientific Advisor K VijayRaghavan said o ...

Dr. K. Vijay Raghavan, PSA to GoI Inaugurates 20 Khagolshalas: Astronomy and Education Labs

SPACE Foundation established these labs in collaboration with Principal Scientific Adviser, GoI with the vision of empowering youth with tools and technology to become fu ...

Dr Harsh Vardhan chairs ICMR’s One Health Symposium

Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare chaired ICMR’s International Symposium titled ‘One Health in India: Research informing biosafety, prep ...

PM interacts with the Chief Ministers on Covid-19 situation

The country has crossed the peak of the first wave and the growth rate is much faster than the earlier. We have better experience, resources and, also the vaccine now: PM ...

Drones to be used for mapping and surveying activity

Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have granted conditional exemption to Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI ...

PM reviews COVID-19 Pandemic situation and Vaccination Program in India

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today chaired a high-level meeting to review the COVID-19 Pandemic situation and vaccination program in the country. 

Genome Sequencing by INSACOG shows variants of concern and a Novel variant in India

The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG) is a grouping of 10 National Laboratories that was established by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of In ...

SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium

The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) was set up for genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in India. The consortium involves ten Regional Genome Sequencing Lab ...

New state of the materials discovered that can lead to better, tunable, controllable quantum technologies

Scientists have discovered a new exotic, strange state of materials in contact with an environment that alters its physical properties in the presence of an electromagnet ...

Deep Ocean Mission

The Deep Ocean Mission is proposed as multi-ministerial multi-disciplinary programme with emphasis on development of deep sea technology, exploration of deep sea mineral ...

Thought leaders, scientists & industry leaders offer insights into using glue grant to develop education hub

Eminent thought leaders, scientists, and industry leaders highlighted the importance of education hubs and gave insights into the way forward at a session on ‘Using Glu ...

Policy Dialogue on COVID-19 Vaccine organized by CSIR-NISTADS and CSIR-NISCAIR

CSIR Institutions CSIR-NISTADS and CSIR-NISCAIR, New Delhi jointly organized a half-day session on “A Policy Dialogue on COVID-19 Vaccine from Self-Reliance to Global L ...

PM addresses webinar on effective implementation of Budget provisions regarding education sector

The Prime Minister,  Shri Narendra Modi addressed a webinar on effective implementation of Budget provisions regarding the Education sector.  Addressing the webinar, th ...

Professor K Vijay Raghavan highlights need for increasing opportunity of knowledge generation

Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Professor K Vijay Raghavan underscored that increased opportunity of knowledge generation and decreasing the gap b ...

Swachhta Saarthi Fellowships launched by The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser

The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India under its “Waste to Wealth” Mission launched the “Swachhta Saarthi Fellowship” to recogn ...

PM’s address in the 21st Episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat 2.0’ on 28.02.2021

My dear countrymen, Namaskar. Yesterday was the festival of Magh Poornima. The month of Magh is regarded related especially to rivers, lakes and water sources. It has bee ...

Office of the PSA to GoI and Municipal Corporation of Faridabad Launch Project to Clean Urban Drains

The Waste to Wealth Mission of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, and the Municipal Corporation of Faridabad (MCF), launched a pil ...

India-EU Joint Committee on S&T Cooperation

The India-EU joint steering committee on science and technology has agreed to develop and adopt a long-term strategic perspective for India-EU collaboration in research a ...

PM addresses the Convocation Ceremony of Visva-Bharati University

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressed the Convocation Ceremony of Visva-Bharati University today through a video conference. Governor of West Bengal and Rector ...

Stakeholders discuss the implications & implementation of the Guidelines for acquiring & producing Geo-Spatial Data

Dignitaries from a range of domains discussed the implications and the road to implementation of the recently released Guidelines for acquiring and producing Geo-Spatial ...

India Maps the 21st Century

Maps and accurate geospatial data are crucial for national infrastructure projects such as linkages of rivers, creation of industrial corridors and deploying smart power ...

Government announces liberalised guidelines for geo-spatial data

The Government has announced liberalised guidelines for  geo-spatial data. Giving details of the liberalised guidelines at a media briefing in New Delhi today, the Union ...

Prof K Vijay Raghavan, PSA to GOI calls for unlocking entrepreneurship in design and training youth in machine learning

PSA to GoI Prof. K Vijay Raghavan underscored the need for breaking open entrepreneurship in design across sectors to scale up technologies and boost local manufacturi ...

Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs calls for unified efforts to develop indigenous fuel cells for EV

Shri Nitin Gadkari has called for adopting an integrated approach for developing indigenous fuel cells in the field of electric vehicles. 

17 COVID-19 Bio-repositories have been notified by Government of India

A total of 17 COVID-19 Bio-repositories have been notified by Government of India on 23-05-2020. These are set up at laboratories of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Co ...

India signs Strategic Partnership Agreement with International Energy Agency

The Framework for Strategic Partnership between the International Energy Agency (IEA) members and the Government of India was signed on 27th January, 2021 to strengthen m ...

India’s Top Thought Leaders provide their vision and ideas on draft STIP

A post-draft consultation process that saw the participation of some of the top experts and thought leaders from a range of disciplines brought in enriching ideas to stre ...

Supply of Indian manufactured vaccines to neighbouring and key partner countries

The Government of India has received several requests for the supply of Indian manufactured vaccines from neighbouring and key partner countries. In response to these req ...

PM Launches pan India rollout of COVID-19 vaccination drive

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi launched the pan India rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination drive via video conferencing today.  This is the world’s largest vacc ...

PM to launch Pan India Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccination drive on 16 January 2021

Over 3000 sites across all States and UTs to be virtually connected during the launch on 16 January 2021 by Hon'ble PM. Around 100 beneficiaries to be vaccinated at each ...

Cabinet approves MoU between India and UAE for Scientific and Technical Cooperation

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Scientific and Technical Cooperat ...

Vaccination drive to begin in India on 16th January, 2021

Prime Minister reviews the status of COVID-19 and preparedness for COVID19 vaccination.  Vaccination to start on 16th January, 2021 after the forthcoming festivals incl ...

A Mock Drill on COVID19 Vaccine administration held in all States and UTs

In a massive country-wide exercise, a Mock Drill on COVID19 Vaccine administration held in all States and UTs at 286 session sites spread across 125 districts. Around 1,1 ...

DCGI approves COVID-19 vaccines from Serum-Oxford & Bharat Biotech for emergency use in India

The Subject Expert Committee of Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) met on 1st and 2nd January, 2021 and made recommendations in respect of proposal for R ...

Innovative Technology infusion for better implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission

Multi-Disciplinary Technical Committee of Ministry of Jal Shakti recommends Five Innovative Technologies in Drinking Water & Sanitation to provide Field Level Solutions t ...

Consultation process for new Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (STIP) initiated

The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (Office of PSA) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) have jointly initiated a dece ...

India-Sweden High Level Dialogue on Innovation Policy

The India-Sweden High-Level Policy Dialogue on Innovation Policy was jointly inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India Hon’ble Narendra Modi and His Majesty, the King ...