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Prayagraj: In seat with storied past, neta sons stake claimAllahabad has served as the constituency of Prime Ministers Lal Bahadur Shastri and V P Singh, and prominent politicians like Bahuguna and ...- View: Celebrating India's progress, leadership in scienceIndia's journey from the beginning of time is dotted with consequential events, each of which added to the idea of India in a very unique a...
- Why Indian govt's decision to do away with calendars, diaries makes senseCalendar sales have been declining for decades – as far back as 1992 the Times of India (ToI) published a story on companies slashing budge...
- Agony of the bhadralok: Amidst Bengal’s pitched political battles, this group finds itself on the sidelinesThe agonising dilemma of the gentle bhadralok now is this: The need to support Mamata Banerjee and TMC because it’s clear as daylight that ...
- View: How new initiatives like Genome Council can take cues from Indian visionariesWhen the aim is to build a research output like the Genome India initiative, the concepts of mission mode, centralisation of infrastructure...
- How calendars went from featuring gorgeous women to being just purely functionalThere are fewer calendars these days but the earlier ones helped fashion modern Indian visual culture.
- Time to fix country's education system: CNR RaoRao called for urgent measures to address the woes of students, who do not have resources to pursue higher education despite scoring well i...
- New India cannot be achieved without scientists' contribution: KovindKolkata, Nov 28 (IANS) Lauding scientists as "true nation builders", President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday said they have a major responsibi...
- President Ram Nath Kovind for bigger role of scientists in 'New India by 2022'Stating that science has been India's intellectual trigger as well as force multiplier, President said that in modern times, Kolkata and Be...
- Air pollution: Firecracker ban puts lid on toxic brew, a step in right directionThe ban is an intervention that makes much more sense than steps such as the temporary ban on diesel vehicles, the odd-even scheme, environ...
- Venkatesh Narayanamurti: The man who started Harvard’s engineering school is now campaigning for a holistic attitude to researchIn 1998, V Narayanamurti had founded the engineering school at Harvard University. He was hired after a sterling performance at the Univers...
- IT secretary Ram Sewak Sharma appointed new TRAI chiefThe government has named Ram Sewak Sharma, currently the IT secretary, as the next TRAI chief, bringing in the popular 'software coding exp...
- Ram Sewak Sharma: A code writer first, then a bureaucrat!A 1978 batch Jharkhand cadre IAS officer, Sharma is often credited with qualities that one seldom expects in bureaucrats — he’s punctual an...
- How Albert Einstein engaged with India & why some Indian scientists are reimagining his notion of gravityEinstein was a great fan of Gandhi. However he critiqued Gandhi’s weapon of satyagraha as being practical only under “ideal conditions” and...
- Jairam Ramesh defends Plan panel, says it should have had more powersRamesh expressed hope that the panel, which was overhauled by the NDA government, had been vested with more powers.
- Nandan Nilekani’s No. 2 man Ram Sewak Sharma now spearheading policies for Digital India initiativeAt Aadhaar, Nilekani dealt with the external world & Sharma toiled within the organization to give a unique identification number to over a...
- 55 yrs on, Meghnad Saha’s green design gets shapeSix decades ago, when very few had woken up to the ills of global warming, legendary astrophysicist Meghnad Saha dreamt of building a green...
- Renaming of West Bengal: The banality of paribartonThe metro renaming exercise had become the butt of innumerable jokes among commuters, but the establishment wasn't impressed.
- Star on Moon: Crater named after Shah Rukh KhanInternational Lunar Geographic Society said a lunar crater in moon's Sea of Tranquillity has been named after SRK. Golden Globe Awards | Sc...
- Red tape, political interference regress Indian science: PMPM regretted that red tape, political interference regress Indian science.
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