Over 70,000 undergraduate, postgraduate and M.Phil students given degrees in absentia and 520 Ph.D candidates, including 90 gold medal-winners, receive their degrees in person

A great book written and illustrated by English polymath Robert Hooke, Micrographia appeared in bookshops in January 1665. The advance copy of this book, which details Hooke’s exploration into many things small, far, and sometimes elusive, is believed to have been shown to the Royal Society on November 3, 1664. A.S.Ganesh tries to hook you onto Hooke’s story…  

India has 450 companies making components to build and launch satellites, but ISRO’s vision requires new players, young talent, a thriving start-up ecosystem and large-scale investment from government and private sector

At home in the tropical forests of Central and South America, vampire bats feed on various animals, including tapirs, mountain lions, penguins and livestock.

All available data suggest human infections caused by the reassortant virus are attributed to direct poultry-to-human transmission, with no evidence of human-to-human spread

Researchers have found a surge in the prevalence of mutations that can be attributed to a protein family in the human body called APOBEC

While the highlight of COP16 was the engagement of Indigenous people and local communities, the event also raised red flags

New studies advance our understanding of how birds produce their colourful displays – and how these traits have evolved.

In a groundbreaking experiment, Saha Institute scientists have built bacterial computers that behave like artificial neural networks

An internship at the UN headquarters, meeting global leaders, Google challenges and more, the writer has it all at NYU.

Safe campuses cannot be built on the basis of restricting speech.

Has it managed to redeem itself in the world of academics even while critics condemn it for distracting students?

Delve into sociology, criminology and deviance to challenge your critical thinking.

The Prime Minister also urged the students to actively participate in sports and aim for gold medals in Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

Studying law, distinct teaching pedagogies and the English way of life — NIDHI SINGH writes about her experience at Oxford University.

French Minister Catherine Colonna stressed that gender balance was a necessity in the field of education

A relatively small e-commerce start-up Tagtile, co-founded by two IIT graduates, was acquired by Facebook last week.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has left the International Space Station (ISS) and is on its way back to Earth. 

The satellites can help detect, monitor, and predict critical global phenomena across agriculture, oil and gas, mining, environment, and other sectors in up to 50 times richer detail. 

It lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today at after 5:23 a.m. EDT (2:54 PM IST) from historic Launch Complex-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

The Union Cabinet today approved the first step towards the Bharatiya Antariksh Station.

While concerns have been raised repeatedly about the health of the astronauts stuck in space, recent photos have stirred the discussion. Williams appears gaunt, which experts say might indicate nutritional deficiencies 

Rasaranjani’s ‘Pampakalu’ was an engaging play with impressive performances.

Sayeed Alam’s "Ghalib" speaks little, conveys a lot.

The 28th Urdu Drama Festival charmed the audience with the variety of themes and presentational styles.

The reserves perked up in the reporting week as foreign currency assets (FCA) and gold holdings were up by $2.057 billion and $726 million, respectively.

 In the week ending September 27, 2024, the reserves reached an all-time high of $704.885 billion.

The decline was primarily due to a decrease in foreign currency assets by $3.511 billion, now at $612.643 billion.

The reserves shrunk by $10.746 billion during the reporting week to stand at $690.43 billion as on October 11, 2024

Trump’s policies on trade have tended to strengthen the US dollar in the past