Researchers from IIT Bombay, IIT Madras and IIIT Hyderabad have come together to create the speech-to-speech machine translation (SSMT) system from English to many Indian languages.
The study from IISc found a previously unidentified yeast-like symbiont inside the lac insect Kerria lacca, which gives the insect its distinctive red colour and, may also provide other nutrients in return for shelter.