Automation
State of Food and Agriculture Report 2022
The State of Food and Agriculture 2022 was released on November 2 this year. What is State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA)? The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) is one of the annual flagship reports released by the UN ..
Month: Current Affairs – November, 2022
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
World Bank Study: Effect of Automation on FDI flows
On January 6, 2020, the World Bank released its study on how FDI flows are affected in the world due to automation. The study concluded that automation will certainly disrupt the flow of capital from rich countries to poor countries. ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020
The first-ever solutions-focused event “Global Cooling Innovation Summit” to be held in India
The first-of-its-kind solutions-focused event “Global Cooling Innovation Summit” will be inaugurated by Union Science & Technology Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan in New Delhi on 12th November 2018. The Summit will bring together leaders from around the world to explore concrete ..
NITI Aayog signs a pact with ABB India to benefit country from AI & robotics
On May 23, NITI Aayog and ABB India have signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) to work together in preparing key sectors of the economy for digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and industrial automation. Jointly, NITI Aayog and ABB will ..
World’s largest automated container terminal opens in China
China started trial operations of world’s biggest automated container terminal at Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai, the country’s commercial hub. The terminal is located at south of Donghai Bridge, phase 4 of Yangshan Port and covers 2.23 million square ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2017
TRAI recommends delicensing of some spectrum for M2M services
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended delicensing of chunk of spectrum in few bands to facilitate smooth roll-out of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. TRAI has suggested that no separate spectrum band will be allocated exclusively for M2M services, ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2017
Government to release new industrial policy
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) under the Commerce and Industry Ministry is going to release a new industrial policy by October 2017. It is expected to replace National Manufacturing Policy (NMP) released in 2011 The new policy ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2017
IT hiring at 10-year low
The technology services sector in India is currently undergoing a very bad growth period in close to a decade as their clients are decreasing their budgets on traditional outsourcing work. Also, the routine customer applications maintenance work which are performed ..