Author: Thangaiah Kannan

Indian Railways to join hands with IIT Madras for the development of ‘indigenous’ Hyperloop system as well as set up a Centre of Excellence for Hyperloop Technologies at the premier institute. The Hyperloop system works on a technology that utilizes magnetic levitation in low-pressure tubes to transport both, goods and people at airplane-like speeds. According […]

CHENNAI: The Madras high court is all set to get two more new judges, as the Union law ministry has cleared names of two advocates – Sundar Mohan and K Kumaresh Babu – for appointment as additional judges of the chartered HC. Sundar Mohan and Kumaresh Babu were on the list of six names sent […]

The first batch of 101 students of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ BSc degree in Programming and Data Science received their provisional diploma certificates during the weekend.  The batch included 17 students with an annual family income of less than ₹1 lakh.  The event was held on Saturday and over 2,000 students, including those […]

CHENNAI: The Thenkalai sect of Vaishnavites alone will have the right to recite hymns saluting their guru, at Sri Varadaraja Perumal Temple in Kancheepuram now, as a special bench of Madras high court kept in abeyance a single judge order permitting Vadakalai devotees also sing the hymns. On May 14, the assistant commissioner/executive trustee, Arulmighu […]

Union Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics, and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw made the first 5G call on a trial network set up at IIT Madras using indigenously-developed technology. Taking to Twitter, Vaishnaw wrote, “Aatmanirbhar 5G successfully tested 5G call at IIT Madras. The entire end-to-end network is designed and developed in India.” “This is a […]

The Indian Railways and IIT-Madras are setting off on a joint mission to develop India’s own Hyperloop, a new system that proposes to use the magnetic levitation technology in tubes to enable travel at aeroplane-like speeds. It’s the Hyperloop’s low energy requirement that has drawn the Railways towards the project, a statement issued by the […]

NEW DELHI: Telecom and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday visited the 5G test-bed at IIT Madras and successfully tested a 5G call on an indigenously-developed network. The test-bed had been inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. “This is the first step towards making the solution feasible commercially. Over the next few months, […]

The Madras High Court on Thursday restrained two persons, including a DMK minister, from making any arrangement for installing the statue of former Chief Minister, the later M Karunanidhi at a public place in Tiruvannamalai. Since the Tiruvannamalai Collector did not file a sworn affidavit after consulting his subordinates and prayed for more time to […]

The Ministry of Railways has accorded its approval for funding of ₹8.34 crore to IIT Madras to participate in a collaborative project on Hyperloop technology. Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw handed over the approval letter to IIT Madras on Thursday. The institute had submitted a research proposal to the Railway Ministry for collaborative working for […]