WINSON COMPETITIVE GUIDE
Researchers produce carbon from sugarcane waste for
use in batteries:
Researchers from Pune (Maharashtra) have produced highquality carbon from sugarcane waste within minutes by
using a low power microwave system. They had used a
simple, cost-effective and quick process to convert
sugarcane bagasse into anode-grade porous, conducting,
activated carbon material for use in Li-ion batteries.
HRD Minister inaugurates Super Computer PARAMISHAN at IIT Guwahati:
The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister
Prakash Javadekar has inaugurated the super computer
PARAM ISHAN at IIT Guwahati campus. PARAM ISHAN is
the fastest and most powerful computer in North East,
Eastern and Southern region of India outside Bengaluru
(Karnataka). Key features of PARAM ISHAN PARAM ISHAN
has been jointly developed by IIT Guwahati and C -DAC
(Centre for Development of Advanced Computing). It has a
peak computing power of 250 Teraflops and three hundred
tera bites capacity. It will help to augment the research
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