Innovation

Did you know that 3,597 people have been killed and 25,000 injured in 2017 because of accidents caused by potholes alone?

The S-TIC project is one-of-its-kind initiative conceived by ISRO to bring academia, industry and R&D institutions under one single platform.

Kurin Systems has designed a 40-feet-tall purifier christened ‘City Cleaner’, which claims to provide clean air to 75,000 people living in the 3-km radius around it.

There has been an ongoing tiff between broadcasters and the DTH and cable operators, and this order will finally put that to rest.

The son of a tailor-turned CRPF jawan, this brilliant innovator was earlier in the news for designing a robot that could climb electric poles and do other dangerous tasks!

The startup has invented a device that can help the visually impaired come closer to the world around them.

Innovation is a term which is rarely associated with vegetables, fruits or spices. Interestingly, there are scores of unlettered farmers who have been ingenious enough to develop crop varieties, which besides being high-yielding, are pest-resistant and can be grown in a non-traditional environment.

“The most basic fact which causes crop stubble burning, especially paddy straw, is the unavailability of its market. Unlike other agro-residues like wheat straw and bagasse, paddy straw is not used as an industrial raw material or even cattle feed.”

"Only 12 per cent of the 355 million women of menstruating age in India can afford disposable sanitary napkins. But, conservatively, these 42.6 million women will throw 21.3 billion sanitary napkins into a landfill in their lives."

Om Shelat, Ira Sidhu, Soumya Juneja and Shreya Raju, built an intelligent traffic light that reacts to real-time traffic density using image processing and has the potential of reducing fleet time.