As the global debate on booster shots gathers momentum, several scientists in New Delhi said the priority must be to ensure that more people are inoculated with at least their first jab.
Research in this direction is being already carried out at the Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore and IIT-Madras to develop a special laptop at a cost of $10 for students to help them excel in studies.
Is the worst of the Covid crisis behind India? As cases dip three weeks after Diwali, the answer is a possible yes, say several experts, attributing the downslide to a large section of the population already exposed to the virus during the second wave and a stepped up vaccination campaign.
'Smart homes' will soon become a reality, involving a set of intelligent home appliances that could understand users' needs including old people, those with movement disabilities, low vision
Narinder Mehra of the AIIMS said the bad genes also cause rapid progression of the infection to full blown AIDS.
If you are in Bengaluru, here's your chance to play reporter, by telling to us what you see around you, send us your photographs and videos of the terror attack
Not only was it a major embarrassment for the Karnataka government, but the message was clear -- The IT capital had come on the terror radar.
An Indian-origin woman who was given just months to live a few years ago is celebrating on Monday after doctors say she is showing no evidence of breast cancer following a clinical trial at a UK hospital.
Indian cities need $840 bn investment over 15 yrs, says World Bank report.
They found Sabauddin, who was arrested in Uttar Pradesh, to be extremely emotional and he in fact wept like a child during interrogated.
Sabahudin, a LeT operative arrested for the CRPF camp attack in UP, reveals how the ISI helps the Lashkar train terrorists.
'Had it not been for the complicity of the state and Biren Singh's leadership, these riots would not have spread this far and for so long.'
Intelligence agencies believe the Mumbai attack was redemption for the man who botched up jihadi terror's arrival in South India.
The experts said that climate change is not only raising temperatures and making India's heatwaves hotter, but also changing weather patterns that further drive dangerous weather extremes.
Sabhahuddin, the man whom the police have been pinning on to crack the unsolved mystery behind the attack on the Indian Institute of Science will be brought to Bengaluru in the next three to four days, according to City Police Commissioner N Achuth Rao.
Between January 1, 2017 and September 18, 2018, one manual scavenger died every five days. He is no caped superhero, but Bezwada Wilson continues to fight the good fight for manual scavengers, says Manavi Kapur.
How does blatantly claiming Indian territory help to maintain 'peace in border regions', is a mystery that only China can explain, notes Claude Arpi.
Even as confusion looms large over the death of Shahid Bilal, India's most wanted terrorist, a close aide of his has revealed that Bilal along with Abu Hamza had planned the attack on the Indian Institute of Science.
The Indian Institution of Technology -- Madras invites applications for its Summer Fellowship Programme.
India needs to invest a lot more money in science research and translate this research into products and solutions for its people, says trustee at the Infosys Science Foundation and co-founder at Infosys Kris Gopalakrishnan.
The research programme was part of the UK-India Education and Research Initiative Award that encouraged links between the our two countries.
India's observatory will be the fourth in space, after the Hubble, Russia's Spektr R and Suzaku of Japan.
The accused persons held training camps at various regions to recruit cadres at all levels for commission of terrorist activities of the CPI (Maoist), the anti-terror agency said.
In January, Gopalakrishnan had donated Rs 225 crore (Rs 2.25 billion) to set up a brain research centre in a joint effort between IISc and a trust formed by him and his wife.
'All hydropower projects in the Himalayan region must be stopped.' 'Joshimath is not alone.'
Bangalore police have arrested one more person in connection with the terrorist attack at the Indian Institute of Sciences in Bangalore in December 2005.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the liberalisation of policies governing the acquisition and production of geospatial data is a "massive step in government's vision for an Aatmanirbhar Bharat". The reform will benefit country's farmers, start-ups, private sector, public sector and research institutions to drive innovations and build scalable solutions, he said.
Bullets were found lodged in cars and trees at the scene.
The presence of top American companies like Microsoft, Cisco and McKinsey in Bengaluru seem to be motivating terror groups to repeatedly target the IT city as it gives them instant publicity globally and acts to thwart foreign investment there.
With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
The increase in stubble burning has kicked off a political slugfest, with Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Wednesday saying that there had been a 19 per cent rise in farm fires over 2021 in Punjab and that the Aam Aadmi Party had turned the national capital into a gas chamber.
National Aerospace Laboratories in Bangalore is close to signing a research and development cooperation agreement with Boeing
The launch of the intermediate range ballistic missile Agni-III should be seen as a stepping stone in pushing the country towards further advances in military technology, the defence minister said.
It is interesting to note that since the IISC attack in December 2005, several persons had been arrested and interestingly, on every occasion the police claimed that the arrest had been made in connection with the attack.
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