India International Science Festival 2020 Witnesses Innovative Interventions to Contribute Towards the Building of a Self-reliant India NewsVoir Honble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the 6th edition of India
International Science Festival 2020 (IISF 2020) on 22nd December 2020. The theme of the event is
Science for Self-Reliant India and Global Welfare. The objective of the event was to provide a platform to participants to contribute towards nation-building by coming up with novel solutions to societal problems, that would, in turn, result in reciprocation of knowledge & emergence of ideas for the national interest. The identified Plenary Sessions
Igniting Young Minds for Solution centric STI Interventions . The India International Science Festival (IISF) will provide the spark of innovativeness and a strong belief in science and scientists among the countrys citizens that will catapult the country into becoming a world leader.
Union Minister for Science &Technology and Earth Sciences, Harsh Vardhan. File
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Inaugurating the Global Indian Scientists and Technocrats meet being organised as a part of the India International Science Festival 2020, the Minister added that the year 2020 has been the year of science. Union Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan, while addressing a State science and technology Ministers’ conclave on Wednesday said that “science has to be developed as a social movement to help the common man”.
Inaugurating the Global Indian Scientists and Technocrats meet being organised as a part of the India International Science Festival 2020, the Minister added that the year 2020 has been the year of science.
Delhi Confidential: PM Modi may fly to Portugal in May 2021
Modi was supposed to go for the India-EU summit in Brussels in March this year, but it was cancelled due to the pandemic. Updated: December 24, 2020 10:49:23 am
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
IF GLOBAL diplomatic travel resumes by next summer, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be headed to Portugal for the India-EU summit. As Indian and Spanish foreign ministers and officials held discussions on Wednesday, the two sides were exploring the possibility of holding the summit in May 2021. Modi was supposed to go for the India-EU summit in Brussels in March this year, but it was cancelled due to the pandemic.
NEW DELHI: PM Modi on Tuesday urged the global community to “invest in Indian talent and innovate in India”, saying the country has the brightest minds and the government stands ready to address any challenge besides improving the environment for research.
“The biggest long-term challenge science faces is to attract high quality youngsters and retain them. Often, the domain of technology and engineering seem more attractive to the youth than pure science. However, for any country to develop, it needs science to power it. Because, as they say: what is called science today, becomes technology of tomorrow and an engineering solution later,” said the PM while inaugurating the 6th India International Science Festival (IISF), the festival will be held till December 25.
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COVID Crisis Stimulated Innovation And Enterprise In India: Harsh Vardhan
The crisis due the coronavirus pandemic has stimulated innovation and enterprise in India, and a comprehensive mapping of the entire startup ecosystem has been done to identify and support relevant technology solutions, Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday.
The crisis due the coronavirus pandemic has stimulated innovation and enterprise in India, and a comprehensive mapping of the entire startup ecosystem has been done to identify and support relevant technology solutions, Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday.
Addressing the Overseas S&T Minister and Diplomats Conclave at the India International Science Festival, Vardhan said as many as 51 startup-driven innovative products are being financially supported to accelerate their market readiness and deployment.