Two Padma & over 10 top global prizes: This IITian scientist won honours bigger than Nobel yet lives simply & rides a bicycle to workProfessor Ashoke Sen, a renowned theoretical physicist, has made remarkable contributions to string theory. He was awarded the prestigious ...
08 Apr, 2026, 04.51 PM IST
Cabinet nod for Biomedical Research Career Programme Phase-IIIGovernment approved Biomedical Research Career Programme Phase III. This program will train over 2,000 students and fellows. It aims to gen...
01 Oct, 2025, 06.59 PM IST
Warm-blooded dinosaurs ruled the Earth 180 million years agoWarm-blooded creatures - including birds, who are descended from dinosaurs, and humans - keep their body temperature constant whether the w...
16 May, 2024, 11.09 AM IST
Inactivity can be fatal: Short bouts of activity can help you live longer, claims new studyAny type of activity is good for your health, but the more effort you put into those daily tasks and the longer you keep up that energy, th...
30 Sep, 2023, 07.23 PM IST
RBI deputy governor Michael Debabrata Patra reappointed for one yearPatra, a career central banker since 1985, took over as the deputy governor on January 14, 2020.
09 Jan, 2023, 10.22 PM IST
IIT Madras, Narayanan Family Foundation launch fellowship in ‘AI for Social Good’The fellows will be primarily drawn from recent PhD graduates or early career researchers in computer science, computational and data scien...
10 Apr, 2021, 03.07 PM IST
Researchers reveal important clues to understand the death of massive starsThey found that all three species of the neutrinos from the supernovae are important contrary to the common treatments with only two flavor...
12 Jan, 2021, 09.36 PM IST
HRD may release fellowship amounts to research fellowsET gathers that the government is also considering options to keep salaries going to thousands of ad-hoc teachers. These measures are being...
04 Apr, 2020, 12.17 AM IST
Packard Foundation offers $875K fellowship to Indian-American biologist Ankur JainThe academician researched about how RNA aggregation contributes to neurological diseases.
20 Nov, 2019, 03.57 PM IST
IIT Hyderabad researchers develop low power chipsThese researchers have developed magnetic quantum-dot cellular automata (MQCA) based nanomagnetic logic architectural design methodology of...
22 Oct, 2019, 01.06 PM IST
Punjab Agricultural University signs MoU with FieldFresh to promote crop researchThe MoU follows the agreement signed recently between Cambridge University and Bharti Foundation to fund the research Programme.
12 Oct, 2016, 01.25 PM IST
Why scientists of Indian origin are leaving a better life and returning to IndiaSuch homecomings are driven partly by family compulsions, but now it is a flurry of incentives by the govt that has helped scientists reloc...
14 Aug, 2016, 06.57 PM IST
Number of PhD scholars at IIT-Kharagpur increases by 20%Recently, the IIT received the National Intellectual Property award under the category 'Top Academic Institute for Patents 2016'.
29 Jul, 2016, 04.18 PM IST
US' Rice University to offer post-doctoral fellowship in Jain studiesRice University is set to offer a post-doctoral fellowship in Jain Studies in a bid to enhance the global understanding of Jainism as a rel...
25 Jan, 2016, 08.25 PM IST
Novel technique to help grow bone cellsFor about a decade, researchers have been able to direct the fate of stem cells by tuning the stiffness of its microenvironment, also known...
01 Dec, 2015, 12.41 PM IST
Scientists successfully modify human immune cells in labUsing a popular genome-editing system, scientists have for the first time devised a new strategy to precisely modify human T-cells, also ca...
28 Jul, 2015, 04.07 PM IST
Scientist Sanjeev Galande gets G D Birla awardGalande is a professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune and is widely respected for his works in g...
01 Jul, 2015, 04.33 PM IST