Health Care

NPPA makes Cancer Drugs affordable

NPPA plays a crucial role in making Cancer Drugs affordable; Following NPPA’s price rationalization initiated in February 2019, 526 brands of 42 anti-cancer drugs showed price reduction up to 90%; Saving about 1000 crore annually to Cancer Patients; NPPA Observes National Cancer Awareness day on 07th November […]

Education

Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge System to be set up at IIT KGP

Union Minister of Education Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank announced the Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge System to be set up at IIT Kharagpur. Inaugurating the international webinar titled “Bharata Tirtha” organized by the Institute from November 6-8, 2020, Chief Guest Shri Pokhriyal congratulated the Institute for the continued work in various branches of the Indian Knowledge System. […]

Technology

Harsh Vardhan gives away 21 Gandhian Young Technological Awards

Dr. Harsh Vardhan gives away Gandhian Young Technological Awards in two categories -SITARE-GYTI and SRISTI-GYTI awards; Fourteen awards and eleven appreciationsunder SITARE-GYTI, and Seven awards and 16 appreciations under SRISTI-GYTI presented; “Over Rs. ten Crores worth of other awards and investment mobilized by SITARE-GYTI winners so far, besides 89 publications, and 39 patents” […]

Foreign Relations

MOU with Spain for collaborations in Astronomy

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi was apprised of the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and the GRANTECAN, S.A. (GTC), Spain to develop scientific and technical collaborations in astronomy field. […]