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In a rush to push out 'research' that reaffirms the beliefs of some of its ministers, including related to cow urine, the government has been undercutting good practices. Credit: paulspace/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Blinded By Its Cow-Urine Craze, the Government Isn’t Fostering Good Research Practices

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/07/2018

One 'finding' suggests cancer and MDR-TB patients consuming a...

University Grants Commission. Credit: PTI

Impact Factors Fail in Evaluating Scientists. Why Does the UGC Still Use Them?

Thomas Manuel 18/04/2018

The journal impact factor has numerous flaws, which makes...

At the March for Science in Bengaluru, August 2017. Credit: Subham Rath

The ‘March for Science’ Should Ask for Structural Reforms, Not Just Money

Vasudevan Mukunth 14/04/2018

The demand that 3% of GDP be spent on...

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Fifteen of 45 Companies have Defaulted on CSIR Loans

The Wire Staff 07/04/2018

The loan defaults amount to Rs 102 crore and...

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A Billion Candles: Is There an Indian Way of Doing Science?

Mukund Thattai 30/03/2018

Mukund Thattai examines the steady growth of the All...

S.S. Bhatnagar. Source: snipview

CSIR Announces Winners of S.S. Bhatnagar Prize for 2017

Sunderarajan Padmanabhan 02/10/2017

Girish Sahni, the CSIR director general, said that no...

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Two Years After Centre’s Funding Directive, CSIR Chief Says It’s Almost Broke

IANS 05/06/2017

Of its Rs 4,063-crore budgetary allocation for 2017, the...