Year: 2018

India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F09) carrying GSAT-9 communications satellite blasts off from the Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota, India May 5, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Stringer

India, France Set up Working Group for Gaganyaan

The announcement of setting up a working group for...

A fingerprint-like gravity wave feature occurs over a deck of marine stratocumulus clouds over the Indian Ocean, October 2003. Caption and credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team

New Suspect Emerges in Mystery of What Drives Clouds Away Over the Atlantic

Ronak Gupta 07/09/2018

Like a buffer between the upper atmosphere and Earth,...

The University Grants Commission has adopted new rules against academic plagiarism. Credit: pixabay

UGC’s Anti-Plagiarism Rules Don’t Make Room for Realities of Indian Academia

Pushkar 06/09/2018

It is difficult to imagine that people in positions...

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The Smell of Rain: Where does Petrichor Come From?

Tim Lomas 06/09/2018

The smell (petrichor) actually comes from the moistening of...

A traffic jam in New Delhi. Vehicular emissions are a big source of Delhi's air pollution. Credit: lingaraj/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

The Updated National Clean Air Programme Is Effectively Blind

Sanjana Manaktala and Abhinav Verma 06/09/2018

Quantitative national targets that featured in the draft concept...

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Before the Birth of First Child Under It, Many Rebirths of Government’s Health Insurance Scheme

The Wire Staff 06/09/2018

The government has spent considerable attention on naming, branding...

Guyana to Face Several New Challenges With the Discovery of Oil Wells

Desmond Brown 06/09/2018

Oil giant ExxonMobil has, over the last three years,...