Prakash Javadekar

Bhartiya Shiksha Board, CBSE, state board education, MHRD, Prakash Javadekar, Vedic schools, Ved pathshalas, Vedic vidyalayas, school textbooks, rewriting history, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Vedavidya Pratishthan, secondary education, board exams, Murty Trust, Vedic text, Harappan civilisation, Hindutva

The Modi Government’s Pseudoscience Drive Is More Than an Attack on Science

Vasudevan Mukunth 27/09/2018

A person who peddles a "fact" that Indians flew airplanes...

University Grants Commission. Credit: UGC

A Surgical Strike at the UGC’s Independence?

Gautam I. Menon 25/09/2018

Education should serve society and all those who belong...

research misconduct, plagiarism, PhD, PhD dissertation, PhD thesis, University Grants Commission, MHRD, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, fake journals, predatory publishing, research fraud, All India Survey of Higher Education,

Fraction of PhD Students Has Been Mostly Constant, and Low, in Last Decade

Pushkar 20/09/2018

A relatively low number of PhDs will hurt the...

Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, higher education institutions, institutions of eminence, Science and Engineering Research Board, National Research Foundation, Bt brinjal, K Kasturirangan, Plan S, Elsevier, AIIMS, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, mid-day meal scheme, National Education Policy, anganwadi, Science and Engineering Research Board, Medical Council of India, top news, education news, science news, politics news, top headlines, politics news,

Three Science Academies Write to Javadekar, Ask That UGC System Be Retained

The Wire Staff 29/08/2018

After careful examination of the UGC Act and HECI...

It is incorrect to call them 'predatory' journals because the term predatory suggests that there is a predator and a victim. Credit: nile/pixabay

‘Predatory’ Is a Misnomer in the Unholy Nexus Between Journals and Plagiarism

Rashmi Raniwala and Sudhir Raniwala 10/08/2018

In academia, the crime of plagiarism used to be...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicating the newly-constructed building of IIT Gandhinagar to the nation, in Gujarat on October 07, 2017. Credit: PIB

PM Research Fellowship Now Open to All Science and Technology Graduates

The Wire Staff 31/07/2018

In the scheme's first year, only 135 fellowships were...

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Institutions of Eminence: Controversy Overshadows Need for Transparency, Complexity

Shasank Ongole, Uddipana Kalita, Rohit Jha, Nandini Velho, Siddharth Iyengar, Krishna Anujan, Swapna Nelaballi and Dayani Chakravarthy 18/07/2018

In the furore over the Indian government supposedly awarding...