Despite note that AIDS vaccine had failed, India changed rules and continued trials

Sunday 23 December '07

The first-ever AIDS vaccine trial in India, flagged off by Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and Union Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal two years ago...

‘Plagiarism’ in his panel’s report, Mashelkar tells Govt to withdraw it

Thursday 22 February '07

R A Mashelkar, former Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research...

Meanwhile, scientists on both sides say let’s explore space jointly

Monday 20 November '06

As their leaders try and resolve the old boundary dispute, top scientists from India and China are seeking a mutually beneficial deep space exploration alliance between the two countries.

‘Measured engagement only way to save Jarawas’

Monday 30 October '06

A high-powered Central Government group is coming around to the view that the only way of saving primitive groups like the Jarawas on the Andamans is “measured engagement on their terms”.

‘Biosecure’ shrimp seeds to save marine exports

Friday 27 October '06

The Ministry of Commerce is speaking a language that will make environmentalists smile ear-to-ear.

‘India should embrace hybrid rice to fight food shortage’

Friday 27 October '06

The statistics are very revealing. India produces 87.6 million tons rice from 42.4 million hectares on the other hand China produces 178 million tons of rice from a mere 29 million hectares.

Nobel Prize ‘incubator’ NSF comes to India

Wednesday 18 October '06

Here's some heartening news for Indian science. The world’s largest basic science funding agency the US — National Science Foundation...

Bamboo: Sibal’s cure-all for North-East

Monday 16 October '06

On a visit to the North-East, Union Science and Technology minister Kapil Sibal’s message has been clear: “Science can usher in lasting peace and prosperity all over the troubled region...

‘Don’t let safeguards curb development of N-energy’

Thursday 21 September '06

Even as India negotiates its safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and hopes the US Senate to pass the Indo-US civilian nuclear cooperation agreement, Anil Kakodkar, chair of the Atomic Energy Commission

India can’t match China’s pace, has different model, says Sibal

Tuesday 12 September '06

India cannot build infrastructure and generate economic growth at the pace of state-led China as it has a different model...

Innovation to drive China’s future growth

Monday 11 September '06

The stunning new “silk road” of Chinese development will be largely based on domestic innovations...

India, China sign MoU on technology cooperation

Friday 8 September '06

The warming of relations between India and China was reflected in the first-ever ministerial-level science accord signed...

Experts to Plan panel: Habitat loss, sexual exploitation threaten Jarawas

Wednesday 30 August '06

A report presented to the Panning Commission says time is running out to save the Jarawas, the stone-age tribals in the Andamans, who not only face the danger of losing their habitat but also have to ward off sexual exploitation.

PM tells n-scientists: help use the new opportunity

Sunday 27 August '06

All it took was a 90-minute meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get scientists on board for the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal.

Mid-life makeover

Sunday 13 August '06

After half-a-century of work, the grand old lady of India’s nuclear power is to get a heart transplant

Graham, the second person named by Jaswant, too says: I don’t have a clue

Thursday 3 August '06

A day after former US Ambassador Harry Barnes denied having received or written any 1995 note that hinted at the presence of a ‘mole’ in the Prime Minister’s Office

Barnes rebuts Jaswant: never wrote or got note

Wednesday 2 August '06

Former US Ambassador to India Harry Barnes has denied having anything to do with what Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Jaswant Singh claims is the correspondence between Barnes...

HRD wants it in one go, Moily panel suggests OBC quotas in phases

Sunday 30 July '06

The roll-out of the 27 per cent reservation package for Other Backward Classes in institutions of higher learning is likely to be staggered.

New first: Indian scientists predict a quake, get it right

Thursday 27 July '06

Scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad have forecast a very special type of shallow earthquake in the Koyna region of Maharashtra.

Science in crisis, advisor writes to PM

Tuesday 18 July '06

‘I am really worried...economic liberalisation has had no impact on the way we have administered the best of our institutions and people’

I am a protector, not destroyer, says man who destroyed GSLV

Monday 17 July '06

Vishwanathan Krishnamurthy, team took the call: ‘Imagine what would have happened if rocket were to explode over Chennai’

‘India losing scientific edge to China’

Monday 10 July '06

Do something, China is outpacing India in the sciences. This was the alarming message Indian scientists tried to convey to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...

Scientists want to turn highest battlefield into highest lab

Wednesday 5 July '06

Troop withdrawal from Siachen is still to be resolved but Indian and Pakistani scientists have begun pushing for a geosciences lab to study the glacier...

Two IITians give robots their first sense of touch

Sunday 11 June '06

If the lightweight “Jaipur foot” was an innovative answer to human disability, two scientists native to the city have come up with an ingenious solution to enable robots to overcome their big handicap...

No one asked me before deciding to hike seats: PM’s chief science advisor & head of IITs panel

Friday 26 May '06

PM Manmohan Singh’s chief scientific advisor and chairman of the steering committees of the Indian IITs C N R Rao has said that he was “neither consulted nor asked” for his views...