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Posted on February 28, 2019February 28, 2019

Four young scientists win DST’s science writing award

Ashish Srivastava (University of Mumbai), Ajay Kumar (IIT Madras) and Nabanita Chakraborty (Vidyasagar University) among PhD students and Dr. Paulomi Sanghavi from TIFR in the Post-doc category won DST’s maiden…

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Posted on February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

Mystery of the missing ‘excerpts of Murmu committee recommendations’

The excerpts of the Murmu committee recommendations for revision of emoluments for PhD students was tweeted by DST on February 2. The same was removed when DST again tweeted the…

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Posted on February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

‘Financial reward for publishing papers is a hare-brained scheme’

A one-time financial reward of Rs.50,000 and Rs.20,000 has been recommended for papers published in international and Indian journals respectively. And an incentive of Rs.1,00,000 on obtaining an India or…

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Posted on February 2, 2019February 7, 2019

DST to incentivise quality research by PhD students

An empowered committee that has been formed will periodically visit the quantum of fellowship and incentivise research. Besides other incentives, there will be one for patents and quality publications. The hike…

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Posted on January 30, 2019January 31, 2019

Government hikes research fellowship by 24-25%

The government today announced 24-25% hike in fellowship to JRFs and SRFs respectively. The revised fellowship will take effect from January 2019 onwards. This is the lowest percentage hike since…

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Posted on January 30, 2019February 9, 2019

Fellowship hike will be announced today: Ashutosh Sharma

Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, DST has confirmed that fellowship hike will be announced today. The percentage hike was not mentioned. The hike will be applicable to all researcher scholars immaterial…

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Posted on January 29, 2019January 29, 2019

Fellowship hike will be announced today or tomorrow: VijayRaghavan

Prof. K. VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India confirmed in an email to me that fellowship hike will be announced today or tomorrow. The Finance Ministry has…

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Posted on January 17, 2019January 18, 2019

Fellowship hike will happen as soon as possible: Ashutosh Sharma

Prof. Ashutosh Sharma says Finance Ministry may soon notify fellowship hike for research scholars funded by different agencies. Research scholars have been demanding for an increase since July-August last year.…

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