An analysis of WHO data shows that most of the countries with an older cohort of population and higher in the development index had a lower excess mortality rate than India.
Mumbai-born Veena Sahajwalla has developed a microfactory in Australia to upcycle electronic waste.
However, Covid infection can spread faster during the third wave if any new virulent variant of SARS-CoV-2 emerges, said Manindra Agarwal who is working with the Sutra Model -- the mathematical projection of the COVID-19 trajectory.
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Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced on Wednesday that the government has decided to set up five more Indian Institutes of Technology
The hunger strike by the students of IIT, Kanpur, entered the third day on Monday with a group of students from the Kanpur University joining them in their protest against the passage of reservation in higher education bill in the Lok Sabha.
With 2,269 vacancies, the IITs currently have one teacher for every 16 students.
The Delhi chief minister also said elevated ring roads and high capacity buses were also on the anvil.
Admission to postgraduate degree programmes in Management at IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee, for the academic year 2004-2005 will be open only to those who qualify in JMET-2003.
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) has released a list of top Indian universities across categories.
Public sector firms presented interesting offers on Day Zero placements at the IITs.
The scientists predict that in the current wave, the first state to peak could be Punjab in a few days, followed by Maharashtra.
A 2014 study had ranked IITs as fourth among the top 50 universities globally, whose graduates were entrepreneurial.
Unfazed by his forecast of huge gold reserves in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao coming a cropper, seer Sobhan Sarkar on Thursday moved the Allahabad high court seeking permission to carry out a similar excavation in Fatehpur.
Rathika Ramaswamy's love affair with wildlife photography began in 2003, when she took pictures of birds at the Bharatpur bird sanctuary. That love affair -- captured in her lens -- bloomed! And how!
None of them had anything to do with the violence at Bhima Koregaon, where they were not even present, points out Aakar Patel.
International pay packages have soared 10-30 per cent at IITs.
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The Supreme Court Wednesday directed the Centre and states to ensure implementation of the decisions taken in a meeting to curb air pollution, observing that it cannot get into the 'nitty gritty' and the bureaucracy has developed a 'sort of inertia' of not taking decisions which are left to the courts.
IIT-Bombay, IIT-Delhi, IISc-Bangalore are among top 200 in prestigious QS global rankings 2020.
'I can't help it if people don't love the minorities, the Dalits and Adivasis; they are as much of this country as any other Indian.' 'If I love them, it does not mean I do not love my country.' 'It is ironic and funny that they have laid such severe anti-national charges against me.'
Among the six parameters, employer reputation was the strongest for IIT-B, with a rank of 93 globally.
The start-up mentors debated if they could drive the price further down, but feared an even lower price would raise doubts about its quality, as was the case with the Tata Nano, reports Amrita Singh.
Three expert members -- Rajendra Singh, Ravi Chopra and Rashid Siddiqui -- have resigned from the National Ganga River Basin Authority.
'The present government swears by Hinduism. But we lost three of our sants during earlier BJP regimes.'
Directions have been issued to about 48 industrial units polluting River Ganga to close down, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday.
Readers share their photographs of Taj Mahal. You can share yours too!
Gangwal said he will not vote in favour of resolutions that intend to expand the size of the board to 10 members. Gangwal wants a seven-member board.
The NGT has asked the Centre to respond to the plea of an environment enthusiast alleging that large-scale burning of municipal solid waste in Agra was turning the Taj Mahal yellow.
An initiative to fund the education of bright Indian youngsters undertaken by two Indian-Americans has now acquired a momentum of its own, discovers Anjuli Bhargava.
'This poem was written against a fundamentalist called Zia-ul-Haq, a dictator. It is interesting that fundamentalists, all kinds of, don't like this poem'
The removal of over 54,000 accounts was the largest such removal yet.
"The need of the hour in Indian education system is to create the awareness around academic integrity" said Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe, chairman, All India Council for Technical Education.
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One should appreciate the sagacity and audacity of JRD and Nani Palkhivala in founding TCS on April 1, 1968. At that time there was no Microsoft or Intel, SAP or Accenture, much less Google.
They needed a person who could build and execute their vision: A frontiersman; a problem solver and an institution builder. It was their and India's good fortune that Faqir Chand Kohli more than measured up to their requirements and indeed laid the foundation to take TCS to unimaginable heights and to the giant success that it is today. Shivanand Kanavi salutes the incomparable F C Kohli, who passed into the ages last week.
The Delhi government said that it is not ready "to compromise with the safety of women".
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