For the BJP, when it comes to India’s record of scientific achievements stacked against Western attainments, it’s “been there, done that”.The pantheon of the BJP’s “science laureates” ru...

There have been many protests against the citizenship (amendment) bill (now Act), and there will be many more. This piece of legislation strikes at the heart of the Constitution, seeking to make India...

A group of 150-odd scientists on Wednesday urged citizens to “vote wisely” and reject those who encourage discrimination, divide people and create fears, marking the first such pre-election appeal...

A doctors’ group on Wednesday condemned a decision by a government-run Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad to house Hindu and Muslim patients in separate wards and has demanded the “strictest possible ...

Indian scientists trying to design antiviral molecules from scratch have stumbled upon a class of compounds that they say could be effective against viruses that cause the common cold, for which there...

One of my favourite scientists in the United Kingdom is Martin Rees. While most people are busy making predictions for 2019, Martin has been writing about what might happen many years from now in his ...

Scientists in China studying the viral disease outbreak’s origin said they had found that two main types of the new coronavirus could be causing infections.The researchers, from Peking University’...

A network of physicians on Friday criticised the central government’s “lackadaisical” responses to the novel coronavirus threat and the absence of any pledges from Prime Minister Narendra Modi f...

A total of 132 scientists left the Defence Research Development Organisation in the last five years on personal grounds, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.In a written reply, Shripad ...

Indian scientists have said their appeal to citizens earlier this month to “vote wisely” reflected their growing concern about the rise of divisive and regressive political ideologies that threate...