India's Space Research Organization (ISRO) conducted a successful experiment to demonstrate supersonic combustion using atmospheric oxygen on Sunday, August 28. It was the maiden experiment of ISRO's Dual Mode Ramjet (DMRJ) engine, which uses hydrogen as fuel and air from the atmosphere as the oxidizer, at hypersonic conditions, and was...
Andhra Pradesh to Set Up First Medical Device Park
India's eighth largest state of Andhra Pradesh situated in the southeastern part of the country, is moving forward with a first medical device park in Asia dedicated to manufacturing medical devices. The park will span 226 acres at Visakhapatnam, the state's largest city. India's state-cabinet has approved funding of the Andhra Pradesh...
Zimmer Biomet To Train 1,000 Indian Surgeons
Warsaw, Indiana-based medical device company Zimmer Biomet announced a multi-year collaboration with the Indo-U.K. Institutes of Health that will increase the capacity of India's healthcare infrastructure. The Institute will help improve the delivery of healthcare across India by training more than 1,000 orthopedic surgeons annually on the latest orthopedic procedures and the safe and effective use of...
State of Andhra Pradesh in India Wins CSIS Award
The Center for International & Strategic Studies (CSIS), a well-respected Washington think tank, has just released the first in a series of reports identifying which of the various Indian states have instituted breakthrough reforms of the business climate. The southern state of Andhra Pradesh, under Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu's leadership wins...
Westinghouse to Build Six Nuclear Power Plants in India
At a meeting at the White House between President Obama and Prime Minister Modi of India it was announced that Pennsylvania-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd., will begin engineering and site design work immediately for six AP1000 reactors in India which will be operational...
India’s Space Research Organization Set to Launch ‘Space Shuttle’
India’s Space Research Organization is in the final countdown stage of building and launching its very own version of a 'space shuttle'. The size of a sports utility vehicle, India's engineers have created a winged reusable launch vehicle which will be used 10 times (if reusable technology succeeds) as a...