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'What Bigger Award One Can Hope For?'

'I did not take up research for any award.''What is more important is the medicine that I have developed.''This helps the patient recover and the family is happy that their relative has survived......

Parl panel bats for new law to define functions, powers of CBI

Highlighting withdrawal of general consent for Central Bureau of Investigation probe by many states, a parliamentary committee has said that an existing law governing the federal probe agency has......

Time to rethink civil services recruitment process: Parl panel

Noting that above 70 per cent of recruits in civil services are from technical streams, a parliamentary committee on Thursday said the allurement to become a civil servant is perhaps adversely......

Lawful surveillance data destroyed every 6 months, govt tells HC

The ministry of home affairs has told the Delhi high court that lawful interception-related records are categorised as highly classified documents and minimal data is maintained for such classified......

Economist Amit Bhaduri gives up JNU professorship in protest

Eminent economist Amit Bhaduri has given up emeritus professorship at Jawaharlal Nehru University, alleging mishandling of the current situation by the university administration. In his letter to......

Govt dissolves Pronab Sen-led panel on statistics, cites 'overlap' in work

Formed in July 2023, the SCoS was supposed to advise the Union government on survey methodology, including sampling frame, sampling design, and survey instruments. With the dissolution of former......

Informal entities in manufacturing lost 5.4 million jobs in 7 years

Unincorporated enterprises in the manufacturing sector lost nearly 1.8 million establishments and shed 5.4 million jobs between July 2015-June 2016 and October 2022-September 2023, an analysis of......

Employment in informal sector below pre-Covid level, shows NSO data

After adding 11.7 million workers in the October 2022-September 2023 period from the pandemic lows in April 2021-March 2022, total workers employed in the vast informal sector in India — at......

In Modi's Amritkal, Worrying Decline Of Economy

NITI Aayog has not said what the reasons were for having achieved or not having achieved what was sought to be achieved, or what lessons can be learned for the future, points out Aakar Patel.......

ISB professor Krishnamurthy Subramanian is India's new chief economic advisor

A PhD from Chicago-Booth and a top-ranking IIT-IIM alumnus, Krishnamurthy Subramanian is one of the world’s leading experts in banking, corporate governance and economic policy The......

Asian football: Ronaldo scores in his 1,200th game

IMAGE: Al Nassr's Cristiano Ronaldo moved closer to Peter Shilton who leads the list of male players with most official appearances. Photograph: Ahmed Yosri/Reuters Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated......

Olympics: T20 an excellent platform to take cricket to global market

'It is great news (cricket in Olympics) if you are a business-person. America has a large section of Asian expats, who are crazy about cricket and they will fill the stadium and of course will......

Bonding the key to hockey team's bronze win: Coach Reid

Belgium and Australia are two world-class teams we saw in the final (in Tokyo). I think they are the benchmark and that's what we need to be aiming for, says India's chief coach Graham Reid.......

Sports Shorts: Nike's Kaepernick ad spurs spike in sold-out items

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday IMAGE: Former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick appears as a face of Nike Inc advertisement marking the 30th anniversary......

'Dhoni is very smart'

'When you saw him, you immediately knew that he was something special.' IMAGE: Arguably the most famous six in World Cup history. Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hits a six to guide India to victory......

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