New Delhi: On Tuesday, Indian National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and his American counterpart, Jake Sullivan, launched an ambitious plan for Indo-American partnership in seven key high-technology fields. These domains include semiconductors, next-generation telephony, artificial intelligence, and military.
At the second Track-1.5 forum on the initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET), hosted by industry association CII, the roadmap was unveiled.
Doval and Sullivan also had private discussions about a range of problems, both bilateral and regional.—Inputs from Agencies

On Tuesday, Indian National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and his American counterpart, Jake Sullivan, launched an ambitious plan for Indo-American partnership in seven key high-technology fields.

NSA Doval, US counterpart Sullivan unveil roadmap for cooperation in critical technologies

New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Friday that the recently created India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) is anticipated to herald a new chapter of relationship and hasten the outcome due to the large talent pool in both India and the United States. He was pleased by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice President Joe Biden's commitment to strengthen ties between universities in India and the United States. Given the large talent pool in India and the United States, especially in new age technologies, and the synergistic research and development centres of excellence at our academic institutes, he predicts that the recently launched India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) will usher in a new phase of partnership and accelerate the outcome.
The minister said that talks were taking place at the joint task force between the Association of American Universities and the best IITs and IISc. To further research partnerships and human exchanges in areas like semiconductors, sustainable agriculture, clean energy, health and pandemic preparedness, and emerging technologies, the education ministry will work to establish Indo-US Global Challenge Institutes. This scholarly collaboration will aid in the creation of future-proofing solutions. Pradhan went on to call the collaboration "a historic moment" that will have "a global impact in the coming years" in the fields of education and research. The National Security Councils of both countries are leading the charge on the iCET, which was announced during bilateral talks between US President Joe Biden and Modi in Tokyo last May.
It aims to improve cooperation between the United States and India on technologies that will boost global growth, increase economic competitiveness on both sides, and safeguard mutual national security interests.—Inputs from Agencies

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Friday that the recently created India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) is anticipated to herald a new chapter of relationship and hasten the outcome due to the large talent pool in both India and the United States.

iCET likely to usher in new phase of partnership between US and India: Education min Pradhan

Los Angeles: Researchers found a new species of early odontocete, or toothed whale, that swam along the North Pacific coastline around 28 million years ago. The study was published in the journal, 'PeerJ.' "Olympicetus thalassodon and its close relatives show a combination of features that truly sets them apart from any other group of toothed whales. Some of these characteristics, like the multi-cusped teeth, symmetric skulls, and forward position of the nostrils make them look more like an intermediate between archaic whales and the dolphins we are more familiar with," said Dr Velez-Juarbe, Associate Curator of Marine Mammals at NHMLAC. But Olympicetus thalassodon was not alone, the remains of two other closely related odontocetes were described in the same paper. The fossils were all collected from a geologic unit called the Pysht Formation, exposed along the coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State and dated to between 26.5-30.5 million years. The study further revealed that Olympicetus and its close kin belonged to a family called Simocetidae, a group so far known only from the North Pacific and one of the earliest diverging groups of toothed whales. Simocetids formed part of an unusual fauna represented by fossils found in the Pysht Formation and which included plotopterids (an extinct group of flightless, penguin-like birds), the bizarre desmostylians, early relatives of seals and walruses, and toothed baleen whales. Differences in body size, teeth and other feeding-related structures suggest that simocetids showed different forms of prey acquisition and likely prey preferences. "The teeth of Olympicetus are bizarre, they are what we refer to as heterodont, meaning that they show differences along the toothrow", noted Dr Velez-Juarbe, "this stands out against the teeth of more advanced odontocetes whose teeth are simpler and tend to look nearly the same." —ANI

Researchers found a new species of early odontocete, or toothed whale, that swam along the North Pacific coastline 

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