The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), the exam through which IITs and many other institutions admit students to postgraduate and research programmes, will include subjects from humanities ...

Scientists have for the first time detected the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in India’s rhesus and bonnet monkeys and called for intensive surveillance to determine whether this has any im...

Science will not flourish in India unless there is freedom of thought, P. Balaram, a former director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, said in a lecture at Jadavpur University on Thursday...

The Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute is the only institute from Bengal that has bagged the highest score, A++, in the latest round of evaluation by the National Asses...

The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, appears the favourite destination among budding Indian research scientists, going by the choice of institutions students have made under a top research prog...

Scores of research fellows held a hunger strike on Friday at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, to protest the delay in revision of their stipends while their peers at several Indian Institut...

Pushkar is a PhD in political science (McGill University) and currently director of The International Centre Goa, Dona Paula. The views expressed here are personal...

On the Western Ghats, biologists have discovered that wind farms reduce the abundance of predatory birds and increase lizard populations, triggering a cascade of changes in the food chain whose long-t...

India has not done well in the World University Rankings 2020 conducted by Times Higher Education; for the first time since 2012 none of its higher education institutions make it to the top 300. It wo...

The plan to tally paper slips with the votes registered on 20,625 of the 10.35 lakh electronic machines deployed nationwide cannot guarantee the integrity of the electoral process against targeted tam...