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India’s Union HRD ministry’s NIRF has released the the country’s ranking of top universities and institutes in categories of univesities, engineering institutes, management institutes, and pharma institutes. As expected JNU has come on top at third while the science streams had IISc of Bangalore on top of the list. Leaving aside IISc and ICT-Mumbai, JNU tops the general stream of ...

Ending fake claims of rankings across the country, India’s Union HRD ministry’s NIRF has released the the country’s ranking of top universities and institutes in categories of univesities, engineering institutes, management institutes, and pharma institutes. As expected JNU has come on top at third while the science streams had IISc of Bangalore on top of the list. Leaving aside IISc ...

Ending fake claims of rankings across the country, the Union HRD ministry constituted NIRF has released the the country’s ranking of top universities and institutes in categories of univesities, engineering institutes, management institutes, pharma institutes. As expected JNU has come on top at third while science streams had IISc of Bangalore on top of the list. Leaving aside IISc and ...

For those who had seen Bellandur lake in Bangalore a year ago filled with chemical pollutants igniting fire, the surface of Ulsoor lake should come as a bigger shock as many dead fish have filled its banks, pointing not merely pollution but poison in the water. While some attribute it to lower oxygen levels of the water, others have pointed ...

When Bellandur lake with froth made news two years ago, there were expert missions which visited the scene and submitted their report. Again two years ago when the waste from garment units mixed into the lake and caught fire due to methane generated inside, the local IISc scientists visited and submitted their report. The outcome remained lukewarm from the local ...

Ever since the visit of Nehru in 1962 to the US where he exhorted Ph.D.s to return and be part of India’s reconstruction, it led to green revolution, white revolution and ISRO’s birth. In the last 60 years, India was able to ape the western scientific advances making merely marginal addition to what was already invented with no impactful idea ...

The Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) and Punjab University (Chandigarh) have made it to be among the list of top 50 universities across Asia, not considering the fact that no Indian varsity or institute figures in the world top 100 list. The Asia University Ranking is one of the category in Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The Indian Institute of ...

Bellandur Lake in Bangalore that caught fire on May 16 for over 5 minutes was due to garment factories’ effluents released into the waters, confirmed a team of IISc. The Bellandur lake is in the neighbourhood of posh HSR Layout in Bangalore with several garment factories and jeans manufacturers located in the vicinity and the problem of effluents let out ...

India needs a brainstorming exercise to find out why it lacks Nobel Laureautes in science while those who migrated abroad are bringing laurels to the mother land, said Union Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan on Friday in Kolkata. Wondering why Indian scientists have not received the Nobel prize after Sir C.V. Raman, who bagged the honour way back ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the Centre for Nano Science Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore after opening the Aero Show 2015 in the morning at Yelahanka. The new nano centre is designed to provide research and technology leadership in the areas of nano-electronics and nanotechnology, key to the “Make in India” initiative in the ...