Board to promote science research to be set up

October 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There has been an 80 percent increase in India's scientific research output since 2000, a news study revealed Tuesday, forecasting that the country will overtake all other countries between 2015 to 2020. The study carried out by British firm Thomson Reuters that owns the news agency Reuters was released in Delhi Tuesday.

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Charusita Chakravarti of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Santosh G. Honavar of L.V.

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Eleven scientists have been selected for this year's prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for Science and Technology research by the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The CSIR instituted the award in memory of the eminent Indian Scientist Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar.

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian Railways will launch a special train to promote the Commonwealth Games 2010, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee said here Monday. The ministry of railways will join hands with the ministries of communication and IT and youth affairs and sports to launch the train, which will travel across the country to "glorify" the Games and promote sportsmanship among the youth, Banerjee told reporters.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The central government has approved a programme called Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (Inspire) to promote science and attract talent for pursuing career in research, Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan said Wednesday. Chavan, in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, said the scheme was launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in December last year with an objective to attract talent and motivate them for studying science from an early age and pursuing career in research.

July 15th, 2009 BANGALORE - Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will chair a five-member jury of the Infosys Science Foundation, set up by IT bellwether Infosys Technologies Ltd, to select winners for its awards in five science disciplines, the company said Wednesday. Sen will chair the jury for social sciences.

July 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Almost half of those working in the field of science or any other related field in China's research institutes, universities, medical institutes, and hospitals think that cheating is "common" in the country's academic circle, suggests a survey. The study, that quizzed 30,078 participants, was headed by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Research and development (R&D) programmes in science and technology were in focus in the union budget presented Monday, with special emphasis on nano technology and earth and atmospheric sciences. The government has allocated Rs.577 crore (Rs.5.77 million) for research and development programmes in emerging areas of science and technology, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in parliament.

May 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The first phase journey of arguably the worlds largest mobile science and technology museum concluded Saturday at the capital's Safdurjung railway station after a 182-day-long trip covering 51 cities of the country. The second phase will kick off from Ahmedabad August 12.

May 19th, 2009 KAPURTHALA - The Pushpa Gujral Science city in Kapurthala is a unique example where effort has been made to popularise science by making it simple and enjoyable for the people. At the Science City, people are made to sit on a Space Shuttle-like vehicle which takes them on a journey that provides some close encounters with celestial bodies.

February 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy Tuesday called upon Indian scientists to focus more on research and innovation to catch up with their counterparts in the developed countries.

February 2nd, 2009 LONDON - India and Britain Tuesday announced six million pounds of funding for large-scale science and technology collaboration between their universities and institutions. The three collaborations will be funded jointly by Research Councils UK (RCUK), a government-funded body, and the Indian Department of Science of Technology.

January 27th, 2009 BERLIN - Indian and German scientists began strewing iron powder on hundreds of square kilometres of the Antarctic ocean in a momentous experiment that may yield a solution to the global warming crisis. Some environmentalists have opposed the work of Indian and German scientists aboard the Polarstern, a German research icebreaker, but Berlin ruled Monday the project is safe and breaks no laws.

January 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US consumer confidence continued to fall to new lows in the first month of 2009 as the world's largest economy struggles through a serious recession, a private research group said Tuesday. The New York-based Conference Board said its consumer confidence index fell 0.9 points to 37.7 in January, the lowest since records began in 1967.

January 2nd, 2009 SHILLONG - While announcing a doubling of the investment in science from one to two percent of the national income, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday urged the Indian industry to invest in research and development aimed at boosting science and technology so that young minds are attracted to seeking a career in science. 'We need a new wave of investment from the private sector so that young people will be encouraged to seek a career in science,' the prime minister said while inaugurating the 96th Indian Science Congress at the Northeastern Hill University here.