Back in 1958, when the 31-year-old Parker suggested that the charged particles streamed continuously from the Sun and fill up the space, the scientific community refused to believe him.
Three molecular chemists -- Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel -- were on Wednesday awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for devising computer simulations that are used to understand and predict chemical processes.
Devangshu Datta walks you into the mind of the winner of the Fields Medal, considered by pure mathematicians as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Whenever the history of India's National Law Schools is written, N R Madhava Menon's name will be deeply inscribed in it, says Mohammad Zeeshan Ahmad.
Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee and his French-American wife Esther Duflo along with their colleague Michael Kremer received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Tuesday for their work to alleviate global poverty that has helped millions of children in an experimental approach that favours practical steps over theory.
The charges against JNU PhD scholar Umar Khalid are shrouded in a lot of "fabrications and lies" and the episode has "taken away" all sense of normalcy and sanity from the lives of his family members, his sister said on Friday calling him a "true son" of India.
Bilateral trade between India and Japan stood at $16.31 billion by the end of fiscal 2013-14.
The police can now name them in their supplementary charge sheet, an official said. In a late evening statement, the government said that this is a purely procedural matter, adding that the elected government has no role to play in this.
Chief Justice of India Justice T S Thakur today said that "corresponding upgradation" of judiciary was a must to face the challenges of emerging social and economic scenario and observed that "unpolluted and speedy justice still remains a distant dream".
In an online chat with readers, NNS Chandra offered advice on how to pursue an education abroad.
'An armed helicopter equipped with counter-drone systems will provide the airborne counter-drone capability and flexibility needed to protect India's critical assets.'
A new study has revealed that workplace bullying is more harmful than sexual harassment for employees.
Rediff reader Prof Dr Ahmad K shares an experience from his formative years.
'We are patriots who love India and the secular ideals it has always upheld.'
From humble beginnings in Baroda to a PhD from Stanford University and leading a turnaround at tech giant SAP, Vishal Sikka's zest for knowledge guided his decision to join India's second-largest software services firm Infosys as its next CEO and MD.
Thapar University's postgraduate courses in BE, BTech, MCA, MSc, MPhil, ME, MTech, PhD.
Industry body PHD Chamber suggested that the government should create a $ 35 billion Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) from the $ 293 billion foreign. reserves.
Franois Englert and Peter W Higgs were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 on Tuesday for the theory of how particles acquire mass.
Still admitted at the trauma centre, undergraduate Mohammad Tazeen, 19, alleged that he and several others faced a merciless attack" by police. He said he was dragged out of the AMU guest house number 3, thrashed there and again at the Malkhan Singh Hospital, "where nearly 20 of us were taken in police vans supposedly for treatment".
Students in large numbers hit the streets in Mumbai on Monday to express solidarity with the students of the Jamia Milia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University protesting against the amended Citizenship Act as agitation against the new law in other parts of the country found resonance in the metropolis.
St Stephen's professor Satish Kumar, facing allegation of molesting a PhD scholar, on Wednesday found himself in a tight spot as the HRD ministry and Delhi Commission for Women have sought action-taken report from the college about the incident.
I wondered how being scientist-mathematician helps one cycle better. Perhaps the self-discipline helps; perhaps it is the scientist-technologist perspective of breaking down the whole into separate pieces, identifying specifics and working on them for improved results, mulls Shyam G Menon.
Between that constant feeling of I've seen it all before and inability to balance comedy and darkness, Ludo wobbles towards its finish, sighs Sukanya Verma.
Rahul Bhattacharya, who is doing his PhD in the UK, shares what he has learnt about living as student in a foreign country.
Ranjana Avasthi, a PhD holder, poured her heart out about the plight of part-time lecturers, prompting the Congress vice president to make the unexpected move.
Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava has been named joint winner of George Polya Prize after finding a solution to a problem that had eluded mathematicians for more than 50 years.
Annamalai University invites applications for admission to various M Phil and PhD full-time programmes for the academic year 2006-2007. \n
The Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, invites applications for admission to its M Tech and PhD programmes.
Acing an interview is not a cake walk, says Dr Sunita Gandhi. But if you improve these ten aspects in your next interview, there are chances that job will be yours!
Three 35,000-scholarships set up in honour of the Prime Minister of India exclusively for Indian students to read for PhD & MPhil degrees in science, technology and social sciences at the St John's College, University of Cambridge.
Admission into high-IQ Mensa society at 4, college at 7, high school diploma at 10, currently a medical correspondent for the CBS talk show The Doctors and if all goes well a PhD in the near future, Tanishq Abraham is all set for academic glory, reports George Joseph.
The Youth Economics: Career Expectations survey by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry paints an optimistic picture.
AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam is said to be upset at his son Raveendranath Kumar, a Lok Sabha MP, being denied a ministerial chance for a second time in a row, beginning with the formation of Modi 2.0 in 2019, reveals N Sathiya Moorthy.
'It is never easy to run a campaign as a woman, particularly a minority woman, especially when you are bucking the establishment.' 'My entire campaign is an act of resistance.'
'If the Biden-Harris team makes it to the White House, India's headaches will multiply,' observes Aditi Phadnis.
Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, father of Umar Khalid, a PhD scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, has claimed that he received a "death threat call from underworld don Ravi Pujari".
Akhtaruzzaman Elias's The Raincoat describes the effect of the 1971 war on a college and on one of its teachers in particular.
Britain and China have clashed over the offer of British National Overseas passports to Hong Kong residents, observes Rup Narayan Das.
Bilateral trade between India and Japan stood at $16.31 billion by the end of fiscal 2013-14.
