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Indus Towers
Indus Towers Limited is an Indian company that deploys and manages telecom towers, with over 264,000 towers in all 22 telecom circles and majority ownership by Bharti Airtel.
Indus Valley Civilisation
The Indus Valley Civilisation, or Harappan Civilisation, was a Bronze Age urban civilization in Pakistan and northwest India, peaking c. 2600–1900 BCE, larger than Egypt and Mesopotamia combined, with undeciphered script, planned cities, Meluhha trade, and a monsoon-linked decline.
Indus Valley seals
Indus Valley seals, also called Harappan seals, are small square steatite stamp seals bearing animal motifs, most often the unicorn, with short undeciphered inscriptions, made ca. 2600–1900 BCE.
Indus Vallis
Indus Vallis is a valley on Mars in the northern hemisphere near Arabia Terra, named by the IAU in 1982 after the Indus River in Pakistan.
Indus Waters Treaty
Indus Waters Treaty (IWT): 1960 World Bank-brokered India-Pakistan treaty dividing the Indus system, giving India the Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej and Pakistan the Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab; held in abeyance by India in April 2025 and contested before the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Indus weight at Ur
Cubical chert weights of the Harappan Indus civilization standard found at Ur in southern Mesopotamia, evidence of third-millennium BC trade between the Indus region, the Gulf, and Mesopotamia.
Indus weights and measures
The Indus weights and measures, also called Harappan weights, are the standardized system of cubical chert weights and linear measures used across the Indus civilization from c. 2600 to 1900 BCE.
Indus–Mesopotamia relations
Indus–Mesopotamia relations were the maritime trade network of the later third millennium BC linking the Indus civilization, called Meluhha in cuneiform texts, with Mesopotamia through Dilmun and Magan.
IndusInd Bank
IndusInd Bank Limited is an Indian private sector bank founded in 1994 by the Hinduja family, ranked among India's five largest private lenders with about 41 million customers.
Industrial Age
Industrial Age: the era from Britain's late-18th-century Industrial Revolution through the second industrial revolution of electricity, steel, and science-based industry, covering the factory system, child labor and Factory Acts, urbanization, and global spread.
Industrial amino acid fermentation
Industrial amino acid fermentation is the large-scale bacterial production of amino acids such as L-glutamate and L-lysine, led by Corynebacterium glutamicum and recombinant E. coli.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (中国工商银行)
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (中国工商银行, ICBC) is a Chinese state-owned commercial bank established in 1984 and the world's largest bank by total assets, about US$7.6 trillion in 2025.
Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (South Africa)
The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) was a general trade union for black, Coloured, and Indian workers in South Africa, founded in Cape Town in 1919.
Industrial and organizational psychology
Industrial and organizational psychology (I-O psychology; work and organizational psychology in Europe) applies psychological science to the workplace, spanning personnel selection, testing, training, motivation, and leadership, with milestones from Munsterberg's 1913 text and the Hawthorne Studies to APA Division 14.
Industrial applications of diamines
Industry uses diamines and polyamines as reactive building blocks: curing agents for epoxy resins, monomers for polyamide resins, paper wet-strength chemicals, chelating agents, fuel additives, and surfactants.
Industrial applications of higher alkanols
Higher alkanols, also called higher alcohols, are aliphatic alcohols of six or more carbons, used mainly as plasticizer alcohols (C6–C11) and fatty alcohols (C12–C18) for detergents.
Industrial area
Industrial area: land allocated for industry in a town-planning scheme, distinct from UN-defined industrial zone, estate, and park; zoned, buffered from residences, and tracked in land use statistics.
Industrial Assessment Centers
The Industrial Assessment Centers, now the Industrial Training and Assessment Centers (ITAC), are a Department of Energy program providing free energy assessments to small manufacturers and training engineering students.
Industrial asymmetric synthesis
Industrial asymmetric synthesis uses chiral catalysts to make single-mirror-image chemicals at commercial scale, from Monsanto's L-DOPA process, developed by Nobel laureate William Knowles, to 20,000 metric tons yearly of metolachlor.
Industrial Bank
Industrial Bank, also known as Industrial Bank Co., Ltd. (兴业银行), is a Chinese joint-stock commercial bank founded in Fuzhou, Fujian in 1988 and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2007.
Industrial Bank of Korea
Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK, 기업은행) is a South Korean state-controlled policy bank created in 1961 to finance small and medium-sized enterprises, and it remains the country's largest SME lender.
Industrial Canal
The Industrial Canal, officially the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC), is a 5.5-mile waterway in New Orleans connecting Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River, breached during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Industrial Canal Lock
The Industrial Canal Lock, formally the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lock, is a 1923 navigation lock in New Orleans linking the Mississippi River to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.
Industrial carbon dioxide
Industrial carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide captured as a byproduct of other processes, purified, and sold as compressed gas, refrigerated liquid, or dry ice for uses like beverage carbonation.
Industrial computed tomography
Industrial computed tomography (industrial CT) is an X-ray technique that reconstructs a 3D image of a manufactured part's interior without cutting it, for defect inspection and measurement.
Industrial control system
An industrial control system (ICS), also called a process control system, is the hardware and software that controls industrial processes such as power grids, pipelines, and water treatment.
Industrial design
Industrial design, also called industrial design engineering or industrial art, is the professional practice of designing mass-produced products and services, optimizing their function, value, aesthetics, and manufacturability for users and industry.
Industrial district
An industrial district is a geographically bounded concentration of small and medium-sized firms in one trade, a concept coined by Alfred Marshall in the late nineteenth century.
Industrial engineering
Industrial engineering, also called industrial systems engineering, is the branch of engineering that designs and improves systems of people, materials, equipment, and energy, with applications in manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics.
Industrial enzyme production by fermentation
Industrial enzyme production by fermentation is the manufacture of technical and food enzymes by growing a producing microorganism in culture, by submerged or solid-state fermentation, and recovering the secreted enzyme.