Russia-India scientific, technology centre opened

• A Russia-India scientific and technological centre was opened in Moscow on to promote industrial uses for breakthrough technologies developed in both the countries.
• The centre was inaugurated to coincide with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Russia for an annual bilateral summit on Thursday. It is designed to provide a missing link to the wide-ranging scientific collaboration between the two nations – a mechanism for commercialisation of technologies developed under the 20-year-long Indo-Russian Integrated Long-Term Programme (ILTP).
• A similar centre would be opened in New Delhi early next year. It already has a website http://ristc.com/. Both units would work in close coordination.