Tag: Science and Innovation team in India

23rd March 2015 New Delhi, India

Rita Sharma

by Rita Sharma

Head of Newton Fund in India

Going to Goa on Business!

This is how my boss announced my recent official visit to my team members! Not surprisingly I got some envious looks…all in good fun of course as prompt came the reply that some were off to Kerala the week after – again on business of course! But I’m sure you’ll hear about that separately. I […]

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17th May 2013 Bangalore, India

Sunil Kumar M

by Sunil Kumar

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

Sky’s the limit in Indo-UK aerospace technology

A couple of weeks ago I was involved in an event bringing together aerospace researchers and companies from the UK and India together for three days to discuss opportunities for working together. We asked Venkatesh Janakiram, Senior Trade & Investment Adviser in Aerospace at the British Deputy High Commission, to write about the event… One hundred […]

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25th February 2013 New Delhi, India

PM’s visit heralds new Indo-UK research and innovation initiatives

In the words of UK Prime Minister David Cameron, the ‘sky is the limit’ for UK-India partnership and this was evident throughout his visit to India (18-20 Feb 2013). The PM’s delegation included David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science, and a host of Vice Chancellors (VCs) from some of the UK’s leading […]

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14th January 2013 New Delhi, India

by Mark Sinclair

Head of Science & Innovation, India

GCSA at the Indian Science Congress

For my first day back at work in New Year I had the pleasure of welcoming UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Sir John Beddington (@uksciencechief) back to India. He was in Kolkata to speak at the inauguration of the 100th annual Indian Science Congress. Founded in 1914, in Kolkata, the Congress was the initiative […]

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2nd January 2013 New Delhi, India

Forward look for 2013

You had the SINners best bits of 2012 and so we thought at the start of this new year it would be a good time to have a look at what the SIN India team are getting excited about in 2013. Events and projects ranging from environmental issues to bioenergy to creative economy are going […]

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12th December 2012 New Delhi, India

The Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency of UK visits India

Last week, UK Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in association with UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) organised a series of seminars in India. The first seminar on the theme of UK regulatory procedures for pharmaceutical products was held in Mumbai on 3 December. The event brought together over 100 delegates from pharmaceutical and […]

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7th December 2012 New Delhi, India

Working together to tackle global challenges

A recent visit to India by the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington to talk about UK and India collaboration on research and innovation got me thinking about some of the fantastic projects that we are currently working on. Research and Innovation partnership between the two countries is growing from strength to strength, […]

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