Suman Chakraborty Is Revolutionising Rural Healthcare

'If you can simplify the technology, you don't need a doctor or a highly qualified technician to work on the technology; even an Asha health worker or a similar front line health worker can use it......

Three scientists share Nobel Prize for 'Click Chemistry'

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 to Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless. Bertozzi from Stanford University, United......

How 'Feluda' will detect COVID-19 in minutes

'This health emergency has brought a lot of people together with the common purpose of getting Feluda to play detective as quickly as possible.''As a scientist, if we can make a small difference in......

Exploring a cheap sanitiser to fight coronavirus

'If it works, something good can come out of this tragedy for the common public good,' say Dr Prasad Gadgil and Dr Kunal Basu. IMAGE: Greater Chennai Police Commissioner K Viswanathan pumps......

Obama names Indian American to senior trade post

Nearly six months after he nominated Dr Islam A 'Isi' Siddiqui to be the chief agricultural negotiator at the office of the US Trade Representative, US President Barack Obama -- fed up with what......

How Keki Gharda stunned the MNC giants

Once upon a time he used to bite pens. Now he fidgets with a knife in a cramped office lined up to the ceiling with books that range from Game Theory to the history of the Roman Empire to polymer......

Why outsourcing to India is a great idea

Globalization has been brutal to US's midwestern manufacturers like the Paper Converting Machine Co.For decades, PCMC's Green Bay (Wis.) factory, its oiled wooden factory floors worn smooth by work......

2 Indians amid WEF's 2005 Tech Pioneers

Two Indian-American founded companies figure the World Economic Forum's list of 29 companies selected as 2005 Technology Pioneers declared on Monday.S V Sreenivasan-led Molecular Imprints Inc and......