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The secret to living to 110? Bad record-keeping, says researcherA researcher reveals shocking inaccuracies in data about people living past 100. The study examined records from several countries. It foun...- Crackpot can jolly well be cutting edgeThe Ig Nobel awards, announced at MIT, celebrate unusual scientific achievements that make people laugh and think. This year's winners incl...
- BSF-led panel formed to monitor situation along Bangladesh bordersThe Union home ministry formed a committee to monitor the situation along the India-Bangladesh border and ensure the safety of Indian natio...
- Govt forms committee to monitor Indo-Bangladesh BorderIndia has established a Committee to monitor the Indo-Bangladesh border amid unrest and law and order upheaval in Bangladesh. The committee...
- From spider claws to ‘anal print’ toilet seats: Innovations that bagged Ig Nobels this yearThe 23rd edition of the annual awards, given out "for achievements that first make people laugh, then make them think", was broadcast in an...
- Team including Indian researcher wins 2023 Ig Nobel prizeA team of scientists from India, China, Malaysia, and the US has won the Ig Nobel Prize in the mechanical engineering category for their st...
- Rhinoceros better transported upside-down, orgasms as effective as medicines in clearing congested noses: Winners of the Ig Nobel prizes are outThis year, each winner was given a paper trophy to assemble themselves and a counterfeit Zimbabwean $10 trillion note.
- Finding bacteria on currency notes, a diaper-changing machine: Unique research that won Ig Nobel awardsThe annual awards celebrate scientists for interesting if decidedly odd research.
- Ugh, passing the yuck along with the buckCounting the monetary mess of noisome currency notes.
- PM Modi could face challenge from 'living dead' in VaranasiMritak Sangh, an association of living people declared dead in records, has decided to fight 2019 elections.
- Absurd awards: Some of this year's Ig Nobel winnersOrganised by the Annals of Improbable Research, a magazine devoted to scientific humour, the Nobel parody is called Ig Nobel Prizes.
- Bizarre award explores fun side of scienceHangzhou, April 15 (IANS) When researchers receive arguably the most bizarre science award in China, they often find the trophy more useful...
- Laugh and think: Here are the top picks of bizarre contributions to the Nobel Prize AwardsTen awards recognise the most whimsical contributions to science and research.
- Bringing real peace is an Ig Nobel goalMilo Puhan and his team have shown that regularly playing the didgeridoo can deal with obstructive sleep apnoea and its peace-threatening c...
- Why is Ig Nobel Prize making headlines?While the Ig Nobels don't necessarily address the world's most pressing challenges, they do represent the curiosity that is an intrinsic pa...
- RBI does not decide anything anymore, PM Modi does: Amartya SenSen further said the RBI was quite independent when Raghuram Rajan was Governor. It was served by illustrious persons like IG Patel and Man...
- Meet Cambridge economist Raghavendra Rau: The Ig Nobel Prize winnerA professor of finance at the Cambridge Judge Business School, he was thrilled to receive the award that celebrates science and quirkiness.
- Lok Sabha Polls 2014: Mritak Sangh men poll-vault to life in east UP"I thought, this would conclusively prove that I am alive. The bigger the election, the better," Mritak Sangh president Lal Bihari says.
- Ig Nobel: India should have its own version of prizes for weirdnessGiven the absurdities of life and people in India, we won’t even have to do any research to get the prizes.
- Ig Nobels Cannot Be IgnoredIn the hullabaloo over the Nobel prize awardees every year, the Ig Nobels usually get, well, ignored.
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