Pune: The sugar industry needs to move beyond conventional sugar production and evolve into a multiproduct biomass resource by expanding into ethanol, biogas, bio-CNG and other value-added products to improve its economic viability, former state home and finance minister Jayant Patil said on Friday. Speaking at the 71st annual convention of the Deccan Sugar Technologies…
The India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will dismantle tariffs that had long eroded the competitiveness of Indian goods For years, Tamil Nadu’s manufacturers had the factories, skills, export infrastructure and networks to compete in the UK. What was absent was a level playing field. The India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which…
Prayagraj: The Blood Centre at Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital (SRN) has started screening blood units using the advanced Nucleic Acid Testing-Individual Donation (NAT-ID) technology, enabling patients in the Prayagraj division to receive safer and world-class quality blood transfusion services free of cost.The Department of Transfusion Medicine has introduced the new screening system under which every…
Chennai: The Bureau of Indian Standards has granted four international ISO Management System Certifications to Osmania University, Hyderabad, according to a release issued on Wednesday. The certifications — ISO 21001:2018 (Educational Organisations Management System), ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management System), ISO 50001:2018 (Energy Management System) and ISO 22000:2018 (Food Safety Management System) — were awarded after…
Lucknow: Lucknow University has proposed reforms in engineering education on its second campus to align the curriculum with industry requirements and emerging technologies. A Curriculum Review Committee has been formed to update the syllabus and improve employability skills, officials said.As part of the changes, a common first semester for all engineering branches has been proposed,…
