ISRO stalwart to educationist: Kasturirangan's legacy to live in space missions, education reformsK Kasturirangan, the former ISRO chief, has died in Bengaluru. He was 84. Kasturirangan led India's space program for over nine years. He d...
25 Apr, 2025, 04.46 PM IST
States & online gaming regulations; banks tap startups to foil fraudsHappy Monday! In the absence of central government’s self-regulatory mechanisms, states are framing laws for online real money gaming. This...
06 May, 2024, 07.19 AM IST
Lessen the unease of doing scholarshipKnowledge incubators like JNU may well be many things to many people, some completely disregarding their function as temples of higher lear...
11 Apr, 2022, 11.14 PM IST
BharatPe banks on engineersIn today's ETtech Morning Dispatch: Making sense of BharatPe's banking foray; Mastercard ban gives Visa all the power; Over 150,000 IT jobs...
20 Jul, 2021, 10.14 AM IST
Blackstone's edtech bet; GlobalBees and Spinny score bigFrom Blackstone's newest edtech bet to GlobalBees's $150 million fundraising and the latest on the Pegasus spyware, here's a quick look at ...
19 Jul, 2021, 08.19 PM IST
Coronavirus mutating much faster than before, finds Indian Institute of Science studyTheir recent study, published in the Journal of Proteome Research, has identified multiple mutations and unique proteins in isolates of SAR...
05 Mar, 2021, 10.17 AM IST
Indian scientists reveal new mutations, proteins of novel coronavirusThe analysis suggests that the virus is now mutating faster than before the three Bengaluru isolates had 27 mutations in their genomes with...
04 Mar, 2021, 07.53 PM IST
"LeT engaged operative to set up bases in various parts of the country"As part of his mission, Abu Hamza hired a man from Bihar and they carried out the December 28, 2005 attack at the Indian Institute of Scien...
05 May, 2019, 07.57 PM IST
Strategic necessity: India is seeking to become a chip design hubChina, for example, is building a homegrown chip programme, eyeing adoption of local semiconductors in 70% of its products by 2025, up from...
03 May, 2019, 08.11 AM IST
Eminence tag to Jio Institute reflects 'brazen cronyism': CPI(M)The politburo of the CPI(M) condemns this move of the government which cannot be construed as anything but brazen cronyism, said the CPI(M).
10 Jul, 2018, 06.18 PM IST
India all set for the biotech bounce among its startupsA new set of deep science startups is delving into subjects as diverse as medicine, energy and agri to lay the foundation for a large biote...
29 May, 2018, 12.13 PM IST
With cryo-electron microscope, India hopes to join the revolution sweeping across the world of medicineThe microscope which set the world of biology on fire required expertise to operate. Without Ragunath, the microscope would be just like a ...
12 Feb, 2018, 08.06 PM IST
How will a constantly wired cohort define itself and the world?This generation on the contrary is to the palm-internet born. In some cases, even their birth was broadcast live on Facebook by enthusiasti...
30 Dec, 2017, 11.30 PM IST
This is how a clutch of scientists around the country are working to decode cancerThe experimental canvas is vast — from fleshing out new therapeutic targets to identifying potential candidates for cancer drugs to improve...
14 May, 2017, 06.40 AM IST
IISc terror attack: Karnataka High Court convicts 5 to life imprisonmentA vacation bench of the Karnataka High Court convicted five persons to life imprisonment in the Dec 28, 2005, terror attack at the Indian I...
10 May, 2016, 07.16 PM IST
Government to revamp sourcing, testing of telecom equipment over spyware and malware threatsThe government is looking at a major overhaul of telecom equipment sourcing and testing in India as it fears threats from spyware and malwa...
15 Jun, 2015, 11.43 AM IST
IS Twitter account handler Mehdi Masroor Biswas was in touch with ISIS combatant in Iraq: PoliceMehdi Masroor Biswas was in touch with ISIS combatant stationed in Iraq, a top police official said.
02 Jan, 2015, 08.51 PM IST