Technology

A survey conducted in South Kamrup in Assam shows that use of small water pumps for irrigation in an area where groundwater is abundant has resulted in significant increases in earnings for smallholder and marginal farmers. Bikalp Chamola takes a closer look.

Some of the biggest scientific efforts and projects require international collaboration on a large scale. The Thirty Meter Telescope is one such endeavour under way, and India is a major contributor.

Passionate about teaching, Manoj Jamsandekar is on a mission to make robotics an accessible and affordable tool for forward-thinking education.

With the help of advancements in science, there is plenty of assistive technology available to compensate for vision loss among the elderly today.

Many services are now intrinsically linked to Aadhaar in India. Yet the system's implementation remains patchy, particularly for biometric verification. In a letter to the Prime Minister, a senior Indian citizen points out some of the existing problems and suggests solutions.

BRABO has been priced between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 7 lakh and can even be bought on EMIs.

Kalwa-based graphic designer Tushar Jadhav’s initiative Donate Your PC collects old functional PCs from people and distributes them to government schools across Maharashtra.

This project in Maharashtra is helping to close the gaps in Digital India by not only providing lost-cost and easy-access technology to villagers but educating them on how and why they should use it too.

Reporting a civic problem and getting it resolved can be a painful and laborious process. The Ministry of Urban Development has launched an app to make it easier.

The Android version is already completed but the app will be launched in a few days when the iOS version is ready as well.