Venkataraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 but decades ago, he failed to clear the entrance tests for both the IITs and a reputed medical college. At a public lecture at the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bengaluru, he recalled his journey from Baroda, where he went to school and college, before moving to Ohio University for his PhD. He shifted to Baroda from Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu when he was three.
'Science and technology keep moving ahead and so you can keep making investment.'
Alert: A PhD/MS programme at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, beginning January 2005.
Security forces have found that terrorists are difficult to interrogate and break. In the past four months, 15 key persons belonging to various outfits including the Students Islamic Movement of India were picked up from Karnataka and Indore. But getting information out of them has been difficult.
The highly transmissible Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 has mutated further to form the 'Delta plus' or 'AY.1' variant but there is no immediate cause for concern in India as its incidence in the country is still low, scientists in New Delhi said.
Flow of Indian students to US for academic year 2018-19 dipped by 30 per cent.
Scientists of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore have developed a new innovative technology, which increases the range of Agni type of missiles. The new technology will increases the range of the inter-continental missile by reducing the drag it encountered during its last flight on Wednesday.
'Imagine taking care of a patient who is infected with Covid. A human nurse is unable to do that due to fear of infection. The robot can do that task, while it is controlled or supervised by the human nurse. So the robot becomes an extension of the nurse.'
Sabauddin, whose custody was secured by the Corps of Detectives from Lucknow, revealed during interrogation that he along with his associate Hamza had identified four targets for the terror attack but zeroed on IISc, as it was hosting an international conference, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Gopal Hosur told PTI in Bangalore. Sabauddin had undergone advanced training in handling all kinds of weapons and explosives and commando training, he said.
A 21-year-old B Tech student of IIT Indore has bagged a job with Google at an annual salary package of Rs 1.7 crore, one of the highest packages offered by the US-based internet giant during campus placements at the premier institutes.
Each terrorist, who participated in the Mumbai attacks would have received at least Rs 20 lakh, IB officials told rediff.com
Sabahuddin, the prime accused in the attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur and the attack on the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has confessed to playing a pivotal role in the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai. Ansari, a Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative, had conducted the recee before the actual attack, Sabahuddin told the interrorgators. He also confessed that the attack was carried out by the LeT and launched from Pakistan.
K Ananth Krishnan, an M Tech in Computer Science and an M.Sc in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, hosted a chat on rediff.com on Tuesday.
Raju Srivastav was cremated on September 22 in the presence of family and close friends in Delhi.
Anindita Mitra, an engineer whose overall ranking was eighth, topped among women. Out of the top 20 candidates, eight were women.
Prime Minister Modi also made a veiled reference to China, saying the global order is based on the respect for the principles of the UN Charter, peaceful resolution of disputes, and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Officials in Delhi said medical superintendents in all hospitals affected by the strike had been directed to maintain essential services.
Sallahudin, an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba militant and a resident of Madhubani in Bihar, was arrested along with Imran and Farooq while they were trying to leave Lucknow. The UP police also picked up three other militants - Suhail, Arshad and Fayheem - in Rampur while they were heading towards Mumbai.
Climate change has hampered the ability of the forecasting agencies to accurately predict severe events and weather bureaus across the world are focusing on augmenting the observational network density and the weather prediction modelling to improve predictability, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra has said.
Dr Prashanth Rangan was among the 22 outstanding early-career researchers who were named Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. Rediff.com's George Joseph reports
From the drones show to projection mapping show, this year's ceremony also presented quite a few firsts.
Steps will be taken to attract external commercial borrowing and FDI in the education sector, the finance minister said. Stating that govt will soon introduce new education policy, Sitharaman said online degree courses to students from weaker sections.
Narinder Mehra of the AIIMS said the bad genes also cause rapid progression of the infection to full blown AIDS.
'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
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.
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
One in five students drop out from school.
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.
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.
As concerns mounted and some people wondered whether this could possibly turn out to be another Covid, pulmonologist Anurag Agrawal said he doesn't expect to see a massive wave.
Intelligence agencies believe the Mumbai attack was redemption for the man who botched up jihadi terror's arrival in South India.
