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India is forging ahead on cell and gene therapies. Delivering them is harder

Developing advanced cell and gene therapies such as BIRSA 101 and NexCAR19 is only the beginning for India. We have to make them deliverable too.

Indians employ a unique mechanism to marry science and faith. It leaves both hollow

When every scientific result that agrees with scripture is trumpeted and every disagreeing result is quarantined as provisional, science ceases to be a method. It becomes ornamentation.

India has a science soft power gap. Even after giving the world zero, Covaxin, Chandrayaan

If a nation is seen merely as a repository of ancient culture rather than a source of modern innovation, then it risks being excluded from conversations that shape the future of technology.

Hyderabad institute is doing science of atmanirbharta— EVs to drones & Chinese magnets

Funded by the Centre, ARCI in Hyderabad has spent decades closing India’s stubborn lab-to-industry gap. Its next target: ending India's dependence on China for rare earth magnets.

Raman Effect to Brahmanda—National Science Day is also about our civilisational wisdom

A renewed commitment to our civilisational principles on National Science Day would reaffirm our collective resolve to ensure that knowledge serves humanity in good faith.

Indian science was never apolitical, says Hyderabad panel on space and vaccine stories

India’s space and vaccine trajectories moved with political currents rather than above them, argued a panel at the History Literature Festival in Hyderabad on Sunday.

Uncovering secrets of the ghost particle: How India missed the neutrino bus & China took the lead

India’s ambitious underground neutrino observatory was supposed to be built in the Bodi Hills in Tamil Nadu's Western Ghats. Scientists involved call it a missed opportunity for India now.

Tutoring kids in Ghaziabad, to using NMR in vaccine research—Kshama Sharma is France’s ‘young talent’

Indian scientist was among 34 awardees of L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science honour. Her larger vision is to inspire young girls to break the glass ceiling in science.

India has ‘talent’ but not enough science funding, opportunities—Physics Nobel laureates in Bengaluru

Duncan Haldane & David Gross spoke at Quantum India summit on plugging brain drain, calling for higher investment and commitment by industries and govt towards tech and R&D.

SubscriberWrites: What is the language of science?—reflection from multilingual India

In multilingual India, the future of science must be polyphonic—bridging English precision with regional inclusion to democratise discovery and empower every curious mind.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.