India bears world’s highest health, economic burden due to lead poisoning: Centre
Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh have highest average blood lead levels, a CSIR and Niti Aayog …
CSIR-CMERI transfers COVID related technologies for commercial production
Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, transferred technologies related to COVID-19 to three private-sector enterprises.
COVID-19: Lucknow lab to sequence SARS-CoV-2 strains
The research lab has inked an MoU with King George’s Medical University
Jugaad of Indian innovation
Patting ourselves for our ability to arrive at makeshift solutions will not take us far
SERB calls for applications under ‘Accelerate Vigyan’ scheme
Accelerate Vigyan strives to provide a big push to high-end scientific research, prepare scientific workforce
Safeguarding ancient wisdom
Traditional Knowledge Digital Library is a useful weapon against wrongful patent
India takes cue from China; to mine rare-earths
Will add two research vessels for the mining
Drishti to improve runway visibility at airports
The indigenously developed system comes at a fraction of the cost of instruments currently in use
A cosmetic leap of faith
Industry ignores perils of using nanotechnology in beauty products
Debating science risks
Chinese scientists appear to be more open to discussing the risks and ethics of new technologies than their Indian counterparts
Green crackers answer to Diwali pollution but manufacturing limited
Most green crackers do not contain barium nitrate, which is the most dangerous ingredient in conventional crackers
The new obesity
A growing number of people are unable to shed those extra pounds despite strict diet regimes and long hours of workout. Evidence shows that the …
PLEA AGAINST PROBE
STEALING POWER
Biotech industry has a new patron
Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push biotech research in agriculture
Biodiesel from microalgae becomes a reality
May be available commercially in five years
Jungle raj
CAG memo shows IFS officers are administering country’s premier forestry research body like a fiefdom
Science under siege
Agricultural science has ossified in India. Despite a vast network of public research institutions and agriculture universities across the country,…