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

Sunderarajan Padmanabhan 02/10/2017

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

Genetically isolated populations are vulnerable to recessive genetic diseases. Credit: sharadaprasad/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Genetic Isolation in Casteist India Could Render Some People More Vulnerable to Disease

Dinesh C. Sharma 19/07/2017

There is reduced genetic variation among the people of...

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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...

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India’s Premier Science Bodies Moot National Programme to Study Concoctions of Cow Excreta

R. Ramachandran 16/05/2017

One official believes that these pseudoscientific initiatives are only...

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IISc’s Open Day, Part of Its Science Outreach programme, is Getting Bigger

Vyasa Shastry 15/03/2017

"Thanks to the Open Day, I got a chance...

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How a ‘Hmm That’s Strange’ Moment Led to a Therapeutic Discovery

Nandita Jayaraj and Aashima Dogra 05/03/2017

Jyotsna Dhawan, a scientist talks about her research on...

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Andaman and Nicobar’s Barren Island Volcano Becomes Active Once Again

After sundown the team observed red lava fountains spewing...