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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - June 2018

Jun 2018

Sep 27, 2025

India's First EV Truck Fleet Flagged Off at JNPA

Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal flagged off India's first fleet of 50 electric heavy trucks with swappable batteries at the Nhava Sheva Distribution Terminal at Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPA) near Mumbai in September 2025.
With this launch, JNPA will have the largest EV truck fleet among Indian ports, boosting sustainable logistics, the ministry said in a press release.
A heavy-duty battery swapping station was also commissioned on the occasion. JNPA aims to convert 90 per cent of its internal heavy truck fleet, comprising approximately 600 vehicles, to electric vehicles by December 2026.

Sep 26, 2025

NCMRWF, NSIL Signs MoU to Set Up Direct Broadcast Stations under Mission Mausam

National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, in September 2025, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the commercial arm of the Department of Space, New Space India Limited, in New Delhi.
The MoU aims to establish two Direct Broadcast Network stations, one in Delhi-NCR and the other in Chennai, as part of the Mission Mausam project. The proposed stations will be capable of receiving direct broadcast data from various existing Indian and international Earth Observing System satellites.

Kubota Debuts Autonomous Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tractor at Expo 2025 in Osaka

Kubota, in September 2025, pulled the wraps off what it claims is the world's first autonomous hydrogen fuel cell tractor, unveiled at the "Hydrogen Park!!" showcase during Expo 2025 Kansai in Osaka conclude on October 13, 2025.
The concept follows the company's manned hydrogen tractor presented last year, but this latest model integrates artificial intelligence and autonomous driving capabilities. The 100-horsepower machine runs on a hydrogen fuel cell stack, offering half a day of operation between refueling — a critical runtime for agricultural use.
Unlike battery-electric tractors, Kubota's hydrogen model provides higher power output and longer uptime, while producing no CO₂ emissions.

Sep 25, 2025

Lenovo, Nutanix Deepen Alliance to Deliver AI-ready Cloud Infra in India

Nutanix, which is into hybrid multicloud computing, and Lenovo Group Ltd in September 2025 announced a significant deepening of their collaboration in India, to deliver advanced enterprise cloud and AI solutions suited to India's growing digital infrastructure needs.
Announced at Nutanix's annual event .NEXT on Tour Mumbai, the collaboration includes servers manufactured at Lenovo's Pondicherry facility with Neptune Liquid Cooling, integrated with Nutanix software. The companies said they are bringing the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform to Indian customers and expanding joint offerings like ThinkAgile HX and GPT-in-a-Box, to help enterprises scale AI, modern applications, and cloud-native workloads efficiently and sustainably.

Sep 24, 2025

DoT's NCCS Designates one More Telecom Security Testing Laboratory for Security Testing of IP Rou...

In a boost to the country's telecom security testing ecosystem, the National Centre for Communication Security (NCCS) under Department of Telecommunications, has designated M/s Compliance International Pvt. Ltd., Noida, Uttar Pradesh, as a Telecom Security Testing Laboratory (TSTL) for testing IP Routers under the Communication Security Certification (ComSec) Scheme.
With this addition, the number of designated TSTLs in India has increased to nine, these TSTLs are spread across Karnataka, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra. These laboratories provide pan-India access, enabling faster and more cost-effective compliance testing for OEMs, importers, and service providers, closer to their business hubs.

Sep 22, 2025

IISc and Delta Electronics India Develops Fast Charging Solutions for EVs

Researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru and Delta Electronics India developed a new fast charging solution for Electric Vehicles (EVs).
This novel cascaded H-bridge (CHB)-based multi-port DC converter directly connects to the medium-voltage AC (MVAC) electricity grid.
Besides, it eliminates the need for large and expensive line frequency transformers (LFTs), which conventional charging stations rely on.
These stations (conventional) also have multiple conversion stages involving stepping up or down current, or converting AC to DC, and vice versa.
This can greatly increase cost and reduce efficiency, according to IISc.

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