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VAJRA Scheme: Government receives 260 applicants for visiting researcher programme

The Union Ministry of Science and Technology’s Visiting Advanced Joint Research (VAJRA) Faculty Scheme has received 260 applications...

📅 October 9, 2017

Government plans to create FarmerZone

The Union Ministry of Science and Technology is planning to create FarmerZone, a collective open-source data platform for...

📅 September 1, 2017

Fact Box: India's Contribution to Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) Project

Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT)  is the world’s biggest telescope which would facilitate astronomers to observe the intricacies of the...

📅 June 23, 2017

Union Government launches BIRAC AcE Fund to accelerate growth of entrepreneurs in Biotechnology

Union Government on 19 March 2015 launched Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) AcE Fund to accelerate growth...

📅 March 19, 2015

NRDC, CCRAS inks MoA to commercialise ayurvedic medicines

National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) and Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) have inked Memorandum of Agreement...

📅 March 6, 2015

NASA's planet hunter spacecraft Kepler discovers 'Super-Earth'

National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has discovered  a exoplanet i.e. ‘super-Earth’ located 180 light-years...

📅 December 20, 2014

Union Ministry of Science & Technology announces “KIRAN” scheme for Women Scientists

The Union Ministry of Science & Technology also announced KIRAN (Knowledge, Involvement, Research, Advancement through Nurturing) for women...

📅 September 11, 2014

Union Government makes it compulsory for scientists to take on lectures in Public schools & colleges

Over 5,000 “highly accomplished” scientists employed with numerous departments under the Science and Technology Ministry will dedicate time...

📅 September 11, 2014

“RapiDot Diagnostic Kit” developed by Indian researchers to detect virus in shrimps

The Mangalore-based College of Fisheries developed a diagnostic kit for the detection of white spot virus in shrimps....

📅 March 21, 2014

No plan to increase research stations in Arctic and Antarctica

Union Ministry of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences has clarified that India does not intend to increase...

📅 August 19, 2013