Month: January 2019

2019 Lok Sabha elections, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP manifesto, Amit Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, science and technology, India S&T budget, R&D, GERD, scientific research, K VijayRaghavan, higher education expenditure, Gaganyaan, Mission Shakti, Central University of Kasaragod, translational research, Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, DRDO, forest cover, tribal communities, CAMPA,

The Indian Science Congress Is Too Big to Succeed

Ramanujam Nadathur 08/01/2019

Cramming everything into a four-day event isn’t going to...

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Last Year Was The Fourth Warmest on Record

Reuters 07/01/2019

Almost 200 nations agreed to a "rule book" to...

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Review: The Promise of an Affordable Transition to a Fossil Fuel Free Economy

Ajay Shankar 07/01/2019

While offering solutions and hope, Prem Shankar Jha’s book...

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Watch | Fighting Air Pollution: The Way Forward

Nupur Sharma 06/01/2019

In this episode of 'Urdu Wala Chashma', Nupur Sharma...

A poster outside Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, advertising the Indian Science Congress. Source: YouTube

Pseudoscience at the Science Congress Won’t Stop Unless All Scientists Speak Up

K. VijayRaghavan 06/01/2019

When lay people, including politicians, make erroneous statements, the...

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How to React to Stupidity at the Science Congress

Vasudevan Mukunth 05/01/2019

Perhaps the BJP government has thrown the field open...

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After Slight Improvement, Delhi’s Air Quality Turns ‘Severe’ Again

According to the Air Quality Index, 26 areas in...