Year: 2018

NASA Kepler, Kepler space telescope, red dwarf stars, exoplanets, NASA Tess, Kepler K2 mission, transit method, radial velocity method, exobiology, Goldilocks zone, habitable zone, SETI, Milky Way galaxy,

Farewell to Kepler, the First Great Planet-Hunter

Prakash Chandra 19/11/2018

Each new discovery Kepler made took us a step...

Char Dham highway, environment impact assessment, VK Saraswat, NITI Aayog, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttarakhand

Char Dham Highway Project Should’ve Undergone Impact Assessment: V.K. Saraswat

Kabir Agarwal 19/11/2018

Saraswat, a member of the NITI Aayog, has contradicted...

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A Focus on Public Transport is the Solution to Delhi’s Air Pollution Woes

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar 19/11/2018

Two decades ago, the Supreme Court had directed that...

Circular Electron Positron Collider, International Linear Collider, Higgs boson, Large Hadron Collider, Institute for High Energy Physics, Yifang Wang, Steven Weinberg, Chen-Ning Yang, Standard Model of particle physics, W bosons, Z bosons, Higgs factory, synchrotron radiation, Super Proton-Proton Collider, superconducting magnets, Large Hadron Electron Collider, energy recovery linac, CERN,

China, Japan Prepare to Transform Asia Into Hub of Particle Physics Research

Vasudevan Mukunth 19/11/2018

China has taken an important step towards realising a...

National Commission of Scheduled Tribes, Indian Forest Service, agonism, conservation, forest ecosystem, National Forest Policy 2018, Forest Conservation Act, Wildlife Protection Act, National Forest Policy, forest-dependent communities, hegemony, subaltern, forest produce, tribals, tribal welfare,

Why It’s Bad News That the NCST Wants to Rename the Indian Forest Service

Tanay Gandhi 19/11/2018

The key issue here is the different meanings of...

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Tamil Nadu CM Asks All to Join Relief Efforts as Cyclone Gaja Toll Reaches Forty-Five

The state government has announced a solatium of Rs...

IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, Citizenship Act 1955, foreign faculty, university rankings, Institutions of Eminence, Indian Institute of Science, IIT Mandi, IIT Council, Delhi air pollution, tuition fees, rupee inflation, Prior Reference Category countries, Pakistan,

The Many Barriers to Internationalising India’s Higher Education

Pushkar 18/11/2018

For one, the IITs will struggle to offer competitive...