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S&T in the BJP’s Election Manifesto Is No S and All T

Vasudevan Mukunth 08/04/2019

The manifesto doesn't allay apprehensions about the future for...

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Five Reflections on National Science Day

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2019

C.V. Raman won a Nobel Prize for discovering the...

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What Does the ‘Statue of Unity’ Have That Scientists and Research Don’t?

Debajyoti Sengupta and Dibya Sankar Das 06/12/2018

In the statue’s aftermath, two students of science hope...

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Research Scholars Forced to Leave Labs and Hit the Streets Again for Funds

T.V. Padma 23/11/2018

The Prime Minister's Research Fellowship pays a high stipend...

It remains to be seen whether state governments will be happy just having IITs or whether they’ll push for them to become centres for research and change. A lecture hall at IIT Kharagpur. Credit: ambuj/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Do Most Graduates of Our Education System Not Contribute to the Economy?

Gangan Prathap 07/06/2018

There is such unevenness that our higher education system...