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Posted on December 7, 2019December 7, 2019

Brazilian researchers remain anonymous on research paper

Due to fear of losing their job, researchers from Brazil have preferred to remain anonymous in a paper on Amazon forest fire. The acknowledgement section of the paper published last…

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Posted on October 5, 2019

Tenure track system at IITs is a recipe for failure

Flogging a small subset of young faculty to improve research and teaching metrics using the threat of tenure track while leaving the large majority of senior faculty completely unmonitored will…

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Posted on April 4, 2019April 4, 2019

200 scientists sign an appeal to ‘vote against inequality, intimidation, discrimination’

For the first time, a large number (199) of scientists, both senior and young, have signed an appeal to vote against hate politics. The appeal calls for people to vote…

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Posted on February 16, 2019February 16, 2019

IIT Delhi to hire 100 foreign teachers

IIT Delhi has already hired on contract five foreign nationals as faculty and intends to fill the remaining 95 vacancies earmarked for them. There are totally 300 faculty positions laying…

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Posted on February 13, 2019February 13, 2019

IIT Delhi to admit international PhD students from May 2019

From this May, IIT Delhi will start admitting international students, including students of Indian origin, for PhD programme in 28 academic departments/units. Five hundred PhD fellowships will be provided over…

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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 September 8, 2018September 9, 2018

Fund crunch at INSA hurts Young Scientist Medal awardees

Due to limitations in budgetary provisions from DST, the Indian National Science Academy council has decided to “dispense with” research grant, fellowship and fully-paid visit abroad to attend a conference…

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