A team of researchers from the Zoological Survey of India recorded the forest-dwelling frog from the Talle Wildlife Sanctuary

Amit Shah said that Madhya Pradesh contributes 12% of the nation’s forest cover and termed the State as the ‘lungs of Bharat’

NCP president reinforces his party’s commitment towards preserving values of the Constitution, ending poverty, and bringing about development through schemes launched by Mahayuti govt.

While filming, the boy slipped from the wall and suffered a jerk in his neck. His friends did not realise this and assumed that he was still acting, official says

The Arunachal Pradesh Government is planning to close more such schools with zero or low enrolment

A students’ body has asked the panel to justify the ‘missing candidates’ who should have been called for the police service interview according to the prescribed number per post

The police recovered a car, a motorcycle, ₹2.10 lakh in cash, a pistol, some ammunition and two marriage agreement certificates from his possession

Ms. Thakur’s remarks come about two weeks after the Supreme Court stayed directives by the U.P. and Uttarakhand governments mandating eateries to display the owners’ names

The dog was shot and buried on Kazi Road in the State’s capital Gangtok on July 19

The train movement on the track remained hindered for nearly three hours

Senior doctors and faculty members joined the protests at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a female post-graduate trainee doctor was sexually assaulted and murdered on August 9

Colleges have also been asked to set up ‘Bharatiya gyaan parampara’ cells

Visva-Bharati is concluding a two-week workshop called Heritage Awareness Camp

In November, the State will launch the Yuva Shakti Mission for youth, the Nari Sashaktikaran Mission for women, the Kisan Kalyan Mission for farmers, and the Gareeb Kalyan Mission for the poor, the Chief Minister said in his Independence Day speech

The CM spoke of Uttar Pradesh’s vast potential as he listed development works that had been completed

Students’ organisations and Opposition parties said citizenship to a Bangladesh-born man was a violation of the Assam Accord of 1971

Dara Singh, the main accused in the triple murder, was convicted and sentenced to death by a CBI court in 2003

Police said masked men on a scooter fired five rounds on Tuesday evening. In July 17, miscreants had lobbed a grenade, but it did not explode and was later disposed of by a special squad

It is likely to move nearly northwards and intensify into a depression over the northwest Bay of Bengal off north Odisha-Gangetic West Bengal coasts on September 8

A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Sanjay Kumar and R. Mahadevan partially set aside the Patna High Court verdict acquitting all the accused and asked convicts Mantu Tiwari and ex-MLA Shukla to surrender within 15 days

The Cabinet has approved additional assistance of up to ₹3,900 per hectare to farmers under the Rani Durgavati Shri Anna Protsahan Yojana, over the minimum purchase price

Got this in an email from one of my lists:

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This presumably will be drawing some attention shortly. It is a very disturbing report by editors from the Journal of Cell Biology and the Journal of Experimental Medicine who have joined with the Executive Director of the Rockefeller University Press in reporting their inability to verify published impact factors using data provided provided by ISI itself. Their fruitless efforts to replicate published impact factors for their own and other journals revealed numerous and serious errors in several data sets provided by ISI and call into question the validity of both ISI's dataset and their published impact factors. If the problems they encountered are widespread, then the host of evaluative decisions that rely at least in part on published impact factors are suspect. Published impact factors affect authors' decisions about manuscript submission, funding awards, and promotion and tenure. While critiques of the use of impact factors are quite common, this is the first serious question raised about the underlying validity of the data used to calculate impact factors and therefore the accurracy of the metrics that are published.


The editorial by Mike Rossner, Heather Van Epps, and Emma Hill was published in the Journal of Cell Biology and is available at
http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/179/6/1091

The URL for the mock-up Leila showed last Tuesday is:
lnadams.org/msl.htm

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Chopra finished second at the Doha Diamond League as his big final effort of 88.36m fell short by just two centimeters of Jakub Vadlejch's winning effort on May 10

Today’s 2cm victory is a little revenge for the previous year: Jakub

India got a favourable decision and Herath was disqualified. Rinku, who originally finished third with an effort of 62.77m, was upgraded to second while Ajeet (62.11m) was handed a bronze

Neeraj Chopra said he would not want to risk injury in an Olympic year and hence decided to skip the prestigious meet.

ATHLETICS | Junior international Jeyavindhiya also figures in NADA’s list; sprinter Neha banned for four years

The 21-year-old from Rohtak ran the country’s fastest 400m at the recent Haryana Championships

There are no eye-popping names in the fray, perhaps because the National inter-state championship is scheduled in close proximity (June 27-30 in Panchkula, Haryana).