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Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM)

Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM) has been created as a professional body under the guidance of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) to take forward the implementation...

April 24, 2018

e- SANCHIT

e- SANCHIT was launched on a pilot basis by the Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC). It is mainly for paperless processing, uploading of supporting documents, to...

April 24, 2018

ICEGATE

ICEGATE stands for the Indian Customs Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data interchange (EC/EDI) Gateway. ICEGATE is a portal that provides e-filing services to the trade and cargo carriers and other...

April 24, 2018

Air-Breathing Electric Thruster (ABET)

The European Space Agency (ESA) is building Air-Breathing Electric Thruster (ABET) that can possibly extend the working life of satellites by years and even help with interplanetary travel...

April 24, 2018

Rydberg Polarons

An international team of physicists have successfully created a “giant atom” and filled it with ordinary atoms, creating a new state of matter termed “Rydberg polarons”. These atoms...

April 24, 2018

Financial Stability Board

After the global financial crisis of 2007, the G-20 has created an institution called Financial Stability Board to design sophisticated regulation measures for banks to prevent future bank...

April 24, 2018

HAMMER Spacecraft

HAMMER stands for Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response. It is a nuclear spacecraft made by a joint venture between NASA, the US National Security Administration and...

April 24, 2018

Saksham Scholarship Scheme

The Ministry of HRD is implementing Saksham Scholarship Scheme through All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to provide encouragement and support to 1000 differently abled students to...

April 24, 2018

Copernicus Programme

The European Copernicus programme, previously known as Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES), is an EU-wide programme that aims to support policymakers, business, and citizens with improved environmental...

April 24, 2018

National Sports Development Fund (NSDF)

National Sports Development Fund (NSDF) was established by the central government in 1998 with a view to mobilising resources from the government as well as the non-governmental sources,...

April 24, 2018

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