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Towards the end of his essay in Nature supplement on the state of biosciences in India, Inder Verma says, "More than 700 million peop...

In the op-ed that we saw in the previous post, Jayant Narlikar recounts this interesting incident: ... In the middle of the 19th century,...

Jayant Narlikar starts his ToI op-ed with this paragraph: A few months ago the finance minister announced a grant of Rs 100 crore to the I...

So says Megha [ Update : The original link has been flagged as malware-infested]. Link via J Alfred Prufrock , who points us to a couple ...

A recent issue of Nature had a supplement called Outlook: India , devoted largely to the state of life sciences and biotechnology in India....

[...] At night, they enter at Nepal And pierce the lover and his lass From underneath the bed – you call It wonderful; I call it crass....

Two links about how China is sprucing up its higher education sector. First, check out this story in the Christian Science Monitor [link vi...

Today happens to be the 101st birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna J.R.D. Tata (JRD). The Hindu has a nice piece by R.M. Lala (who has penned ...

The Hindu had this story about how even the worst hardships bring out the best in the citizens of India's greatest city. Way to go, Mu...

Urmi Goswami repors in the Economic Times that the C.N.R. Rao Committee has finalized its recommendations regarding the entry of foreign un...

Do read this interview of Vivek Paul in Tuesday's Economic Times. Though he decided to quit the job of Wipro's CEO a while ago to t...

Rashmi Bansal has a post about AICTE's recent decision to outsource the process of accreditation of engineering colleges to independent...

This is being treated as a big issue over there in the US for a while now. It is, shall we say, purely of academic interest to most of us he...

If you read things like the following in a blog, how would you react? Should we hire more mercenaries today?... Why not bypass residency e...

Just a few quick links: P.Z. Myers wrote this post a while ago: The cost of being a woman in science . Inside Higher Ed has a news story ...