The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of ISRO conducted a four-day capacity-building programme for Bhutanese officials on forest fire detection and mapping burn areas using satellite datasets, strengthening space cooperation between the two countries. Held from June 9 to June 12 at NRSC’s Jeedimetla campus in Hyderabad, the programme brought 11 officials representing the Department of Forests and Park Services, College of Natural Resources, National Land Commission Secretariat and GovTech Agency from Bhutan. Organised under the India-Bhutan Space Cooperation Programme, the trainin
Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) is advancing renewable energy research through bio-photovoltaic solar cell technology that uses photosynthetic pigments from purple bacteria to generate electricity. The project is being led by researchers at BRIN’s Research Centre for Nanotechnology Systems to harness the photosynthetic capabilities of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, bacteria known for their efficient light-harvesting properties. Researchers are using the reaction centre-light-harvesting 1 (RC-LH1) protein complex from bacteria as a light-absorbing layer in solar