Good science is not possible without freedom of thought: Ramakrishnan – The Hindu
‘Empirical view has shaped modern outlook of science that has the capacity to transform societies’
The idea of favouring experiment and observation over belief, and the empirical over the anecdotal, which was at the core of the evolution [...]
Pak baby gets rare stem cell transplant in India
Doctors at New Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital performed India’s first unrelated stem cell transplant on a one-year-old Pakistani boy on March 15. Shaheer Imran had familial HLH, a rare disorder where the body’s immune system [...]
Hat trick for Bihar’s Super 30
All 30 students of Super 30, a free coaching centre in Bihar, have cracked the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) for the third consecutive year, the institute announced on Wednesday.
“We [...]
Sulabh Sanitation Movement
Read about the movement which aims to remove maybe India’s biggest Shame “Manual Scavenging“.
Sulabh Sanitation Movement
The noble idea of starting a vocational centre at Alwar is to take out women scavengers out of their [...]
Nai Disha meaning “A new paradigm”
Nai Disha: Started by “Sulabh International Social Service Organisation”
Rehabilitation and alternate livelihood of scavenger women: Success story of Sulabh‘s initiative
Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, Founder of the Sulabh Sanitation [...]
Lifeline Express of India: The world’s First Hospital On Rails
Lifeline Express: Can Trains-turned-hospitals Cure Rural India’s Health Care Woes? Grateful patients bearing small bags of fruit and vegetables are common along the railway platforms where Lifeline Express — the world’s first [...]
‘Smile on Wheels’ launched to make poor smile
A NEW initiative to provide healthcare to people at their doorsteps, especially in the slums, is reaching the underprivileged. A mobile hospital called “Smile on Wheels” has been launched for slums in east Delhi and Noida under the [...]
India test-fires Prithvi-II, Dhanush successfully
India has successfully testfired in March 2010; indigenously developed ballistic missiles ‘Prithvi-II’ and ‘Dhanush’ from different locations off the Orissa coast, adding more firepower to the armed forces.
“The [...]
World’s Second Seed Bank in India
India last month commissioned its own ‘doomsday vault’ for long-term storage of crops germplasm at a permanently frozen mountain in western Himalayas. It is the second such seed bank in the world after the one at Norwegian [...]
State and society must root out ‘honour killings’
Earlier article “Honour Killings in India“, a landmark case was delivered in a case of honor killing. There is every reason to hail the verdict of a Haryana court sentencing to death five people who killed a young couple, Manoj [...]
