India bears world’s highest health, economic burden due to lead poisoning: Centre

Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh have highest average blood lead levels, a CSIR and Niti Aayog …

CSIR-CMERI transfers COVID related technologies for commercial production

Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, transferred technologies related to COVID-19 to three private-sector enterprises.

COVID-19: Lucknow lab to sequence SARS-CoV-2 strains

The research lab has inked an MoU with King George’s Medical University 

Jugaad of Indian innovation

Patting ourselves for our ability to arrive at makeshift solutions will not take us far

SERB calls for applications under ‘Accelerate Vigyan’ scheme

Accelerate Vigyan strives to provide a big push to high-end scientific research, prepare scientific workforce

Safeguarding ancient wisdom

Traditional Knowledge Digital Library is a useful weapon against wrongful patent

India takes cue from China; to mine rare-earths

Will add two research vessels for the mining 

Drishti to improve runway visibility at airports

The indigenously developed system comes at a fraction of the cost of instruments currently in use

A cosmetic leap of faith

Industry ignores perils of using nanotechnology in beauty products

Debating science risks

Chinese scientists appear to be more open to discussing the risks and ethics of new technologies than their Indian counterparts

Green crackers answer to Diwali pollution but manufacturing limited

Most green crackers do not contain barium nitrate, which is the most dangerous ingredient in conventional crackers

The new obesity

A growing number of people are unable to shed those extra pounds despite strict diet regimes and long hours of workout. Evidence shows that the …

PLEA AGAINST PROBE

STEALING POWER

Biotech industry has a new patron

Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push biotech research in agriculture

Biodiesel from microalgae becomes a reality

May be available commercially in five years

Jungle raj

CAG memo shows IFS officers are administering country’s premier forestry research body like a fiefdom

Science under siege

Agricultural science has ossified in India. Despite a vast network of public research institutions and agriculture universities across the country,…