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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 June 24, 2019June 24, 2019

‘Tenure track system: Incentivising performance better than making insecurity as a model’

MHRD has called for a meeting of all seven IISER directors to discuss the merits of tenure track system and alternative systems for evaluating the performance of new faculty members…

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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 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 January 9, 2019February 3, 2019

Indian Science Congress sans drama from 2020?

The Indian Science Congress Association has finally decided to bring some respectability to the Congress by deciding to do precisely what the Nobel Laureate Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan had suggested in…

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Posted on September 20, 2018September 20, 2018

Finally, CSIR to issue UGC-NET JRF/LS exam certificate, release fellowship

After several months of delay, the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has finally decided to issue certificates and release fellowship to students who have cleared the CSIR-UGC National Eligibility…

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