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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
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CII wants govt to extend R&D funds to pvt firms, accept intellectual property as loan collateral

CII recommended to finance ministry to bring private companies under ambit of govt funding to facilitate industry-academia and industry-govt R&D which may be IPR-driven.

Doing research in Israel, Indian post-docs say can’t get jobs at ‘biased’ institutes back home

Research bodies ICMR & ICAR deny bias. Positions are sparse worldwide and students should consider alternate careers like publishing, R&D, says ICMR.

Moving toward malaria-free India not easy. But new-age technology has answers

For four years, ICMR-VCRC has been preparing mosquitoes that carry strains of a bacteria called Wolbachia, which can reduce pathogen transmission in mosquitoes.

Monkeypox strain detected in India not linked to European outbreak, suggests ICMR data

Data shows that the ‘A.2’ variant recognised in India may have been silently circulating worldwide for a while & is only now being detected due to the European monkeypox outbreak.

Covid to space & missiles, these women scientists are rocking Indian science and how

Women scientists have played a pivotal role in shaping India's response to Covid-19. But they have been busting myths about girls being 'more suitable to study humanities' since much before. 

In elderly, BCG vaccine can tame immune frenzy that causes Covid death — ICMR study finds

Results of trial by National Institute for Research on Tuberculosis are currently in the process of being published, so they are confidential, but 'outcome has been encouraging'.

Big push in fight against malaria, dengue: 4 more institutes to train vector-illness experts

Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC), which comes under ICMR, is currently the only institution that offers an MSc in Public Health Entomology.

Covid fear waning, so what to do with 3,000 RT-PCR-equipped labs? ICMR institute has a plan

India has 3,000 labs that can do RT-PCR tests. Puducherry-based Vector Control Research Centre wants these to be used for mass testing mosquitoes to eliminate elephantiasis by 2030.

Lesson learnt from Covid, ICMR works to develop phase I clinical trial sites at govt institutes

Scientists say pandemic underlined need for speedy clinical trials, but most phase I units are in private sector. They urge trial sites in govt sector too, so focus is on public health, not profit.

2004 research paper of ICMR’s Nivedita Gupta retracted for alleged image manipulation 

Mycopathologia retracted it this month after a Dutch scientist claimed that Gupta’s figures showed unexplained duplications. The ICMR scientist has called the decision unfair. 

On Camera

No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India’s air defence system foiled 1,000 Pakistani drone attacks on 9 May—Modi tells Parliament

New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.