Experts have voiced their concern that the decision to remove Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution from 10th-grade textbooks may help propagate superstitious beliefs and irrational practices among......
Dr Ajay Kumar Sood will have to complete a task his predecessor started: Getting the government to sign off on a new Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy on which work was begun in 2020.......
Renowned radio astronomer and scientist Govind Swarup died on Monday night in a private hospital in Pune, Maharashtra following illness, the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics said in a......
Noted nuclear scientist P K Iyengar, who played a key role in India's first atomic test in 1974 and pioneered experiments in cold fusion died in Mumbai on Wednesday afternoon after a brief illness.......
India plans to offer an astronomical site at Hanle in Leh for an international collaboration which is exploring the possibility of setting up two large gamma-ray telescope arrays in the Northern......
Next time someone complains about the lack of research in education in India, ask them to meet the young ones who were at the Intel Science Talent Discovery Fair. Interesting projects, such as a......
The Indian Institutes of Technology for the first time since their inception have begun drafting plans to implement the quota for faculty members from this year onwards, despite protests from the......
The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research has announced a partnership with Hewlett Packard for setting up one of India's largest supercomputers, which will also include the rollout of the largest......
"I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country." – JRD Tata One of India’s most enterprising businessmen, Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was born......
There have been enough discussions on the merits and demerits of reservation in central educational institutions. So far these institutions have been above caste- and religion-based quotas, except......