CNR Rao, one of India’s most celebrated scientists, is still writing papers and running the research institute JNCASR in Bengaluru. His latest cause is taking science to young people.
Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad is using sophisticated instruments to study Stone Age tools, paleo microbes, ancient soot to solve both past mysteries and looming crises.
The Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad is the only other Indian institute, apart from TIFR Mumbai, to work with lunar samples. It’s collaborating with NASA, Russia’s Roscosmos, and Japan’s JAXA.
Mount Abu Infrared Observatory has already discovered 4 planets outside the solar system. Now it’s using cutting-edge PARAS-2 spectrograph to search for planets similar to Earth.
IISc Bengaluru’s deep tech incubator cell is going where few countries have gone before. AI, quantum computing, robotics, biotechnology to provide solutions in healthcare, edtech, space, agriculture, and more.
India Research Watchdog founder revealed that top institutes are those with the most number of plagiarised papers. 58 papers by 12 top IITs were retracted between 2006 & 2023.
IIT-Kanpur's SIIC has been leading the innovation race. The incubation centre is connecting entrepreneurs and scientists to funders while providing infrastructural support.
Aryan Mishra’s astronomy labs are run in perpetuity by teachers and students. Villages with even a single lab have seen increased overall enrolment in schools.
Corporate bonds are priced as a spread over the risk-free rate. In India, the reference risk-free rate is unreliable as large institutions are mandated to buy and hold government bonds.
After lapses exposed by terror attacks at Pahalgam and Delhi's Red Fort, Centre has hiked Intelligence Bureau's expenditure for investments in long-term assets from Rs 257 cr to Rs 2,549 cr.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
pls write about Dr. Sujata Bhat