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The Hon’ble President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FINE) organised by the Rashtrapati Bhavan in association with the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) India and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Most of us have seen diabetics take insulin injections. Wasim Akram was an insulin dependent diabetic, and at the same time, a threatening fast bowler.

ನಮ್ಮ ಸುತ್ತಮುತ್ತ ಮಧುಮೇಹಿಗಳನ್ನು, ಅದರಲ್ಲೂ, ಇನ್ಸುಲಿನ್ ಚುಚ್ಚುಮದ್ದು ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಮಧುಮೇಹಿಗಳನ್ನು ಕಂಡಿರುತ್ತೇವೆ. ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟಿಗ ವಾಸಿಮ್ ಅಕ್ರಮ್ ಬ್ಯಾಟ್ಸಮನ್ ಅನ್ನು ಬೆದರಿಸುವಷ್ಟು ವೇಗದ ಚೆಂಡು ಎಸೆಯುವ ಬೌಲರ್, ಜೊತೆಗೇ, ಇನ್ಸುಲಿನ್ ಅವಲಂಬಿತ ಮಧುಮೇಹಿ ಕೂಡ. 

How many times have you fed moneys by the roadside? Are you changing the behaviour of the monkey or is it manipulating your behaviour for food? New  study from Researchers at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment along with researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Sciences gives reasons to not feed the monkeys.

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, study how speech recognition software can be improved by modelling it to be more like the brain, such that it works well even in the presence of background noise. 

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women across the world. As per an estimate by the World Health Organisation, 570,000 women died from breast cancer in 2015 alone.

Clean drinking water is an essential prerequisite for good health. In a country like India, where 21% of communicable diseases spread through unsafe water, and more than 500 children under the age of five die each day from diarrhoea, the accessibility to clean drinking water is paramount. Researchers from the CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, have developed a frugal water purification system, Oneer, to help overcome our water woes.

Interspeech--the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing -- is coming to India for the first time ever.

LMC X-4 is a two-star system consisting of a pulsar and a companion star. In a recent study, scientists from the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, examined characteristics of the X-ray signals emitted from LMC X-4, using signal processing techniques and analysis.