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Dr Anupam Sharma, Distinguished Scientist and Director General (Technology Management), said at the Bengaluru curtain-raiser that business in the semiconductor-related segment is expected to rise to 200 billion dollars by 2035.

The conclave is being organised jointly by 12 ministries and departments, and the whole exercise is guided by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.

The Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave, shortened to ESTIC-2026, is to be held there from 27 to 29 October 2026, and DRDO will lead its thematic session on semiconductors and next-generation chips.

Cicadas, froghoppers and pond skaters all have three body parts, six legs and a pair of antennae, the marks of the class Insecta.

The correct answer is the Ministry of Communications, under which the Department of Posts functions and which announced the campaign.

Passengers on selected flights received kits containing postcards, wrote their messages during the journey at about 30,000 feet and then dropped the cards into letter boxes that India Post had kept specially at the airports where they landed, from where the cards moved into the normal postal stream for delivery.

Philately means the collection and study of postage stamps, so a campaign built around stamped postcards fitted the theme of the day.

The Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications worked with this airline for the campaign, under which travellers on selected flights were given specially designed digital detox kits containing postcards.

The filter breaks down dyes using light and mechanical vibration at the same time. The vibrations create a piezoelectric polarisation in the material, which holds back the recombination of the electrons and holes generated by light and therefore raises the formation of reactive species that attack dye molecules.

Under light and ultrasonic excitation applied together, the membrane of polylactic acid and zinc oxide removed the colour of 98.6 per cent of methylene blue in that time.

The nanoparticles were synthesised in the laboratory of Aviru Kumar Basu using an extract of turmeric, in which naturally occurring compounds such as curcumin, flavonoids and phenolic compounds worked as the reducing and stabilising agents.

Its researchers held zinc oxide nanoparticles, prepared from a natural source, inside porous nanofibres of biodegradable polylactic acid and then applied light along with mechanical shaking to break down dyes in water.

Its capacity building framework, which until now focused on civil servants, has been extended through this agreement to Adi Karmayogi Volunteers and to other functionaries who implement tribal development schemes on the ground.

Going by what the states have reported on the portal, that many Adi Sewa Kendras stand registered, along with 1,22,072 Adi Karmayogi Volunteers.

These four states were placed first in the queue for the three day in-person training of volunteers, which State Administrative Training Institutes are to design and deliver along with state tribal welfare departments, and they are expected to finish it by the end of October.

Karmayogi Bharat will host, run and maintain the platform, bring learners on board and provide technical support, analytics and progress reports, while the ministry owns the subject matter and will fix the target groups, the competencies and the content.

The National Culture Fund was established by that ministry to make partnerships possible between the government and the corporate sector for conserving and promoting India's tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and this agreement is an example of that purpose at work.

The projects there take in the historic North Bazaar and South Bazaar areas, where development work is proposed over a stretch of about 270 metres in the first and about 250 metres in the second.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited accorded in-principle approval for financial support of this amount, to be used over the financial years 2026-27 to 2028-29, and the spending forms part of the company's corporate social responsibility effort.

The agreement signed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, the National Culture Fund and the Archaeological Survey of India covers conservation and development work at Hampi in Karnataka, the Taj Mahal at Agra in Uttar Pradesh and Bekal Fort in Kerala.