Government grant for EV startups

The Department of Science and Technology has announced a programme, ‘Electric Vehicle Solutions led by Startups (EVolutionS)’, to accelerate EV component manufacturing in the country. The programme is meant to aid the selected startups in pilot demonstration, testing, validation of components and establishing industry connects for speedy translation of EV solutions to market. Startups in…

Artificial metallo-nanozyme for electron transfer control

Dr Amit Vernekar and his PhD student Adarsh Fatrekar at CSIR-CLRI, Chennai, have created a next-gen nanozyme called Cu-Phen. This new type of artificial enzyme, a metallo-nanozyme, can precisely control electron transfer, which is essential for energy generation in cells. The breakthrough could support advances in medicine, sustainable energy, and environmental technologies. It is carefully…

Less than human, more than lab rat

Imagine this: An adult human body, lying on a table. It is not alive — it never did have ‘life’. But it has all organs functioning — except the brain. It is not sentient; it can never feel pain or pleasure — it is “experientially blank”. A fully lab-grown zombie, produced for scientific experiments, including…

Focus on recycling and environment-friendly policies to make Telangana cleanest and safest  

 Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu along with Kitakyushu Mayor Kazuhisa Takeuchi in Kitakyushu, Japan on Sunday. After a series of meetings with major Japanese conglomerates to attract their investments in the State, the TelanganaRising delegation, headed by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy shifted its focus to studying the…