The 7,500 kms long Indian coastline is dotted with many major and minor ports. The temporal increase in the volume of cargo is also indicative of the rising emissions by ships which NIOT is trying to minimise using innovative strategies.

The rainfed areas have remained in the margins of India’s growth trajectory. Despite measures to address the crucial concern of farming practices in the region, policymakers have largely been unable to devise a long-term strategy to uplift the region’s shackled agricultural growth.

Indian Standard Time is the primary reference on which the country runs. However, keeping time is not the simplest of jobs. CSIR-NPL ensures that this time becomes accessible to all and everything runs proverbially, like clockwork.

The Indian agriculture sector is at a critical juncture, with productivity stagnating and technological inputs being negligible. Policy failures in most critical sectors of agriculture has caused severe distress to farmers.

Characterisation and quantification of biodiversity is one of the major challenges in its conservation and prioritisation. Until recently spatial ecological database in India was almost non-existent. National Biodiversity Characterisation at Landscape Level, a project jointly sponsored by Department of Biotechnology and Department of Space, has been implemented to identify and map the potential biodiversity rich regions in India. This project has generated spatial information at three levels viz. Satellite based primary information (Vegetation type map, spatial locations of road and village, fire occurrence); geospatially derived or modelled information (Disturbance Index, Fragmentation, Biological Richness) and geospatially designed stratified field samples (~16500). This is one of the unique data repository generated as baseline data for characterising spatial distribution of landscape level biodiversity in the country. The entire database has been organised into a web-based repository named “Biodiversity Information System” for geo-visualisation, analysis, online spatial modelling and data dissemination to various user groups.