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Monday, November 17, 2025
TopicResearch in India

Topic: Research in India

IISc, India’s lone science gem that keeps topping global rankings, leaving IITs, IIMs behind

For 113-year-old IISc, it’s a story of scientific rigour, academic excellence, a unique mix of the two, and competing with the advantage enjoyed by similar institutions & universities in the West.

NEP has lofty goals to promote research culture. UGC undermining its basic tool—publishing

It's a fallacious argument that research in India is done only in standalone institutions and universities need only focus on teaching. Universities without research are as good as a dead duck.

With 3D-printed gloves for ‘Rs 1,000’, IISc team offers cheap virtual physio for stroke patients

IISc team says idea ‘behind device is that you wear something like a glove, and the physiotherapist controls the device from a remote location through the internet’. 

IISc Bangalore’s entry in QS World Rankings isn’t a surprise. It was just a matter of time

It speaks of IISc Bangalore's global repute and eminent scholars that it was ranked above famed global institutes like Princeton and Harvard universities in terms of research.

Resilient new microbe named after Modi govt secretary who’s easing research for Indians

The single-cell organism has been named Natrialba Swarupiae after Renu Swarup, who was appointed secretary in the Department of Biotechnology in 2018.

Six ‘young’ Indian institutes ranked among world’s top 50 for research

Homi Bhabha National Institute, ranked 16th globally, is the top-ranked Indian institution on the list, which also features five IISERs.

On Camera

Bihar rejected Rahul Gandhi’s divisive politics. Voters are nobody’s fools

Voters in Bihar don’t want dynastic politics, minority politics, or caste politics—all dead ducks flogged by the Congress Party in its regressive, divisionary, divisive game.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.