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Saturday, April 20, 2024
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Topic: Research

Shampoo, oil, cancer drugs from cow urine, dung — what Modi govt wants scientists to work on

Research will be done under new inter-ministerial funding programme — ‘Scientific Utilisation Through Research Augmentation Prime Products from Indigenous Cows’.

Top science & medical research bodies put guidelines in place to fix dubious studies

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research to make policy public after consulting academicians. Indian Council of Medical Research has released guidelines.

Pakistan’s doctors are getting fired in Arab countries. Blame its unreliable medical degrees

Many Pakistanis working in the field of clinical research would say that the unfortunate episode was waiting to happen.

Modi govt’s new education policy draft wants separate body for research & innovation

Draft NEP proposes establishment of National Research Foundation under act of Parliament to competitively fund research in all disciplines.

New Modi govt plans to form groups of consultants for science & tech research

K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, hopes to have 100 researchers & scientists from India & abroad as consultants to the govt.

What Indian scientists achieved in 2018 beyond ISRO and its rocket launches

New and promising scientific technologies in fields ranging from nanotechnology to space weather made headlines this year.

India at no. 5 in the world for science research, says new global report

Data by Elsevier, a top publisher of scientific articles and journals, places India in the fifth position for scientific research. 

A super voracious moth has arrived in India

The moth can fly long distances overnight to attack maize and a variety of valuable crops such as cotton, rice etc.

How research is a Nobel way of attaining economic growth

Paul Romer, co-winner of this year’s economics prize, showed that research leads to new discoveries which in turn create possibilities of economic growth. New Delhi: The...

New ideas replace superstar scientists when they die

A study has found that the death of a scientist leads to an influx of new people with different ideas into the field.

On Camera

Iran-Israel conflict will now be shaped by 3H—Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah

Israel's response to Iran's retaliatory attack was relatively small and also downplayed by Tehran. But there are factors that could jeopardise this perceived reprieve.

CBDT signs record 125 Advance Pricing Agreements, 31% more than last year

The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.

Vice Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi to take over as Chief of the Naval Staff

He has been the chief of personnel and the flag officer commanding-in-chief, Western Naval Command, in the rank of vice admiral.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.