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Govt’s science adviser VijayRaghavan has a New Year message for ‘stewards of the planet’

K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to Govt of India, talks about the issues his office tried to address in 2019, and the paths taken.

North America is losing its birds – 3 billion have disappeared in the last 50 years

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to the best sources to read them.

Piyush Goyal, it was Isaac Newton & not Albert Einstein who discovered gravity

Union minister Piyush Goyal has defied our accuracy meter on multiple counts with bizarre ‘gravity’ claim.

Hugs, pursuit of science, speech: How Modi turned Chandrayaan-2 failure into success

Modi’s speech after Chandrayaan-2 soft landing failure conveyed science is as much the torchbearer of Hindutva as it was of Nehruvian secularism.

India wanted Fawad Khan but it got Fawad Chaudhry, Pakistan science minister who trolled ISRO

Turncoat, clown, opportunist, rationalist, survivor, troll – Pakistan’s federal minister for science and technology juggles many names.

Meditation, ‘yogic agriculture’ answer to all environment problems, Brahma Kumaris tell UN

At ongoing 12-day UN convention, members of Brahma Kumaris spiritual group claim application of ‘pure mind power’ could help farmers increase crop yield.

No single ‘gay gene’ & even clean tattoo needles can trigger allergic reactions

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to the best sources to read them.

Chandrima Shaha, first woman set to head science academy, was also a cricketer, commentator

Chandrima Shaha, the president-elect of the Indian National Science Academy, says she will take initiatives to combat pseudoscience.

Praying for rain won’t help India. Problem is man-made, why pray to god asked Dabholkar

Maharashtra’s governor in 1992 asked citizens to pray for rain. Rationalist Narendra Dabholkar wrote why we must be scientific not superstitious.

No, the West never owned scientific thinking

Although Europe and the U.S. dominated scientific discovery during the 19th and 20th centuries, other countries made significant contributions.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.