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Posted on June 3, 2019June 3, 2019

CSIR-IITR case is being investigated speedily: CSIR Director-General Shekhar Mande

CSIR Director-General Dr. Shekhar C Mande in response to a Facebook comment said that the CSIR-IITR case is “being investigated speedily”. His comment came after I posted the third article…

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Posted on June 3, 2019July 15, 2019

Another 24 papers with image manipulation, duplication from CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research

With 24 additional papers containing manipulated, duplicated images, the total number of problematic papers from CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research is 130. The huge number raises a serious issue for…

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Posted on June 1, 2019July 15, 2019

33 more papers with manipulated, duplicated images from Indian Institute of Toxicology Research

With 33 more problematic papers spotted on Pubpeer today, the total number of papers containing manipulated and/or duplicated images now stands at 106. Has Indian Institute of Toxicology Research become…

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Posted on May 31, 2019July 15, 2019

With 73 problematic papers listed on Pubpeer, Indian Institute of Toxicology Research has a serious problem

Seventy-three papers published between 2004 and 2017 by scientists at the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow have serious problems with the images. Leading the pack with 40 problematic papers…

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Posted on May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

Science news on The Hindu website has high readership

Between January 2017 and January 2019, the Science section (excluding health, environment and technology) on The Hindu website got on average 5 lakh readers per month. And even on certain…

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Posted on April 8, 2019April 9, 2019

IIT Delhi start-up’s false claims expose the perils of blind trust

More than two weeks after making false claims on March 8 that Sanfe Period Pain Relief Roll-On, an Ayurveda product claimed to help women with menstrual pain, is FDA-approved and…

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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 January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

Talks at the Indian Science Congress need to be vetted by serious committees, says Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Nobel Laureate Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who attended the Indian Science Congress held in Mumbai in 2015 and called it a “circus” as very little science was discussed, is annoyed at…

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