Startups tap into the small town female workforceStartups such as Sheroes, HerSecondInnings, JobsForHer, ElasticJobs and Avtar I-Win are helping women in small towns find jobs with flexible hours and salaries commensurate with their skills and - 3 techies develop non-contact baby monitor to track sleep, breathing
Prachi (name changed), 32, a corporate professional and single mother, is sleep-deprived. So is her five-month-old son, who wakes up in the middle of the night with sudden bouts of respiratory - IIM Rohtak student skips placement for own start-up
- This Bengaluru doctor conducted 9 robotic surgeries in just 17 days
Dr Lavanya Kiran has become the first robotic surgeon in India to conduct nine complicated surgeries using robotics in a short span of 17 days. She is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with - B'luru teenovators design fire extinguisher, clinch first spot
It was a platform for young minds to display their creative prowess. Outshining their peers, the students of St Joseph's Boys High School, Bengaluru, emerged victorious at the sixth edition of - Rs 15,000 relief for 3 who got faulty power banks
A district consumer forum here has directed an e-commerce website to pay a total of '15,000 as compensation to three customers for selling them faulty and damaged power bank devices. - Solar power to light up smart villages in Rajasthan
- Toilets with plastic bottles? IIT-Madras students show the way
The method involves using discarded PET bottles filled with savudu sand (aquifer sand). The students built a bench using PET bottles on the IIT-M campus last month. SYNK, the collective behind the - Near-infrared rays detect cancer
A team of scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has received a patent for a technology that uses near-infrared light to detect breast cancer. - Van debuts as passport application processor
In a first for the country, two passport applications were successfully processed in a mobile van in Baramati taluka of Pune district on January 14. - Fewer than 200 IIT graduates went abroad last year
The count was larger last year, though not dramatically different. While the first phase of placements have concluded, the ensuing edition is unlikely to have international companies flying down to - K'taka cyber crime police trace hackers from Pak, China
In a major breakthrough, cyber crime police traced the June 2016 defacing of the Karnataka police website to China and Pakistan. Investigations revealed that the miscreants had adopted the 'SQL - City team aims to make mark in race to colonize Moon
An experiment by three youngsters is among the 25 chosen ones that have a shot at being deployed on the Moon - Cybercrime-as-a-service a growing threat to India: Experts
If the nature of cyber attacks is any indication, experts say India is a facing an increasing threat from ‘supari attackers’, who provide cybercrime-as-a-service (CAAS). The lack of a strong - A handy guide to your world of medical data
The startup, founded by Ganesh RVR, Vijay T and Vijay K aims to increase the efficiency of the healthcare ecosystem. Friends for 12 years, these Chennai lads started the company in 2015 to ease the - Every Tom, Dick and Puck is a Bollywood critic
Clearly, desis are enjoying the videos, but what do these foreign reviewers really think of Bollywood? "I have come to accept songs," says Koay with resignation, adding, "What bothers me now is if - City laboratories take kinder, greener route to experiment
Even as pharma and cosmetic companies continue animal trials and testing, the laboratory at the Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital (KMCH) has set an example and cut down on the number of animals - Thane kids create gadgets based on daily life observations
Four 13-year-olds from AK Joshi High School have taken inspiration from a few observations in their daily life and created two gadgets that use the basic principles of physics to help the society at - A made-in-Nashik answer to Pokemon Go
Tired of playing the pira ted version of Pokemon Go or searching for a better option to the location-based augmented reality game? Technocrats have launched a Madein-Nashik option, which can be - A 'box' to keep the heart beating
Doctors come up with technique to up shelf life of a harvested heart by 2 hours from a normal of 4 hours. - Drinking water from sewage becomes reality
Recycling is so yesterday.With the drinking water crisis becoming more acute, the world is looking at recovering used water. - 3D printing to cut time of construction, then cost
The technology is expected to save cost, labour, time, and material. Countries like China, Germany, South Korea, and the US are already using the technology and research is on to develop advanced - A Youtube like platform that helps docs on the go
Medi Tube provides 20-minute videos in different specialisations for doctors, who want to stay abreast of the latest developments in the world of medicine. - Solar flares: Experts rely on wave
Astrophysicists the world over believe that the magnetic field in the Sun organise as uni formly twisted cylindrical tubes of magnetic energy that well up to the visible surface of the star as - Only 1.6% of cybercrime victims approach police for help: Survey
A little more than a month ago, a 21-year-old college student, A Vinupriya from Salem, killed herself after a man morphed her pho tos and uploaded them on Facebook. A week before her suicide, her - Hyderabad's IT hub held to ransom
'Ransomware', the malicious software that seizes access to computers and laptops until a said amount is paid, has already hit several biggies in the IT industry with cyber crime police struggling to
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