‘Chewing betel leaf may help fight cancer’
September 18th, 2012 - 2:32 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 18 (IANS) Chewing 'paan' or betel leaf could help fight a form of bone marrow cancer, a group of Indian researchers say.A molecule derived from betel leaf may ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Global warming causing Himalayan glacier to diminish each year
June 9th, 2012 - 12:58 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, June 9 (IANS) Global warming is diminishing the Chhota Shigri glacier in the Pir Panjal ranges of Himachal Pradesh at 0.67 metres a year, report French and Indian ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Scientists now know tomato better
May 31st, 2012 - 9:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) Scientists have successfully sequenced the genomes of tomato, which is expected to lower costs and increase the vegetable's production worldwide, officials said Thursday.It took seven ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Indian scientists give high marks to Manmohan (Lead)
February 26th, 2012 - 5:13 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) Indian scientists give high marks to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for bringing about a "sea change" in India's scientific environment and showing grit on issues ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Indian scientists give high marks to Manmohan Singh
February 26th, 2012 - 12:52 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) Indian scientists give high marks to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for bringing about a "sea change" in India's scientific environment and showing grit on issues ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Gonorrhea cure gets tough as bug grows drug resistant
November 8th, 2011 - 4:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) At a time when the controversy over the antibiotic resistant superbug in the capital's hospitals refuses to die down, Indian researchers have found that the ... Read more...
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Electronic Nose can sniff tuberculosis
November 6th, 2011 - 3:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) It's a device that can sniff out tuberculosis. A group of researchers from India and the US is developing the hand-held 'Electronic Nose', which has ... Read more...
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Indian trio in Scotland invent device to identify fake whisky
November 3rd, 2011 - 1:34 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 3 (IANS) A team of three Indian researchers in Scotland have designed a laser test to identify fake whisky from genuine Scotch malt.Praveen Ashok, Kishan Dholakia and Bavishna ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Why Indian researchers fail to make news (Comment)
October 29th, 2011 - 11:29 am ICT by IANS
Most Indian scientists working in the anonymity of their labs or research institutes seldom make news even if they achieve a vital breakthrough or invent something new. Their discoveries and insights ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Gen Now mantra is ticking bomb for heart attacks!
September 8th, 2011 - 11:47 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Working 16 hours a day to climb the corporate ladder, puffing away at 20 cigarettes, life condensed in a laptop, Gen Now that lives by ... Read more...
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Indians claim research work plagiarised by British professor (Lead)
March 6th, 2011 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, March 6 (IANS) Two Indian researchers who have been relentlessly pursuing a plagiarism charge against a British professor for over three years say they feel vindicated with the violation ... Read more...
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Indians feel vindicated, but British professor denies plagiarism
March 6th, 2011 - 11:02 am ICT by IANS
Bangalore, March 6 (IANS) Two Indian researchers who have been relentlessly pursuing a plagiarism charge against a British professor for over three years say they are at last vindicated, but ... Read more...
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India, Cuba to cooperate on natural medicine usage
February 18th, 2011 - 10:42 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Ties between India and Cuba may soon reach new levels after a top official of a medical research organisation in Havana met Indian scientists to discuss ways ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Indian, Australian joint team studying penguin evolution
January 7th, 2011 - 9:58 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Jan 7 (IANS) A joint team of Indian and Australian scientists is studying molecular changes in Adelie, a penguin species commonly found along the entire Antarctic coast, triggered by global warming.The ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Use medical research to treat patients: Health Minister
December 9th, 2010 - 3:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Thursday urged Indian researchers not to treat medical research only as an academic exercise but use the findings in treating patients."There are ... Read more...
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How TB bacteria to survive in infected organs
December 7th, 2010 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 7 (ANI): Indian researchers at the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in New Delhi, have identified how tuberculosis bacteria thrive in infected organs.Tuberculosis, caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Eggshells could help combat climate change, say Indian scientists
October 27th, 2010 - 1:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 27 (ANI): Indian researchers say that the food industry generates a lot of waste products, but one of these, eggshells, could help combat climate change.Basab Chaudhuri of the University of ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
India’s vegetable farmers hit with ‘pollination crisis’
September 28th, 2010 - 12:59 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 28 (ANI): Reduced vegetable production in India is an outcome of decline in the pollinating insects and it may limit people's access to nutritional diet, scientists have warned.Indian researchers said ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Everest’s biggest mystery solved
August 9th, 2010 - 11:35 am ICT by IANS
Toronto, Aug 9 (IANS) The greatest mystery in mountain climbing involving the death of two British mountaineers who might have climbed Mount Everest in 1924, nearly 30 years before Edmund Hillary and ... Read more...
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British minister supports UK border agency’s tight security norms
July 29th, 2010 - 8:48 pm ICT by ANI
By Sandhya SharmaNew Delhi, July 29 (ANI): Defending UK border agency's security norms, the visiting British Minister of State for Universities and Science David Willetts said here on Thursday that tight ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Seeing forest and trees could help detect heart problems
July 27th, 2010 - 5:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 27 (ANI): Observing forests and trees could offer a rapid and precise way to diagnose heart problems, revealed a study by Indian researchers.C. Vimal and colleagues at the PSG College ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Soot from India triggers retreat of Himalayan glaciers
February 4th, 2010 - 3:41 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) Nobody disputes that glaciers in the Himalayas are thinning. Now a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Surabhi Menon has set out to isolate the impacts of ... Read more...
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Black carbon from India contributing in melting of Himalayan glaciers
February 4th, 2010 - 1:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 4 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found that airborne black carbon aerosols from India are a major contributor to the decline in snow and ice cover on the ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Proposals sought for studying India-French satellite data
December 30th, 2009 - 6:06 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 30 (IANS) The Indian and French space agencies have sought research proposals on data to be generated from a payload on a satellite to be launched next year.
Indian Space ... Read more...
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Yoga improves heart health, confirm Indian researchers
November 10th, 2009 - 12:59 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee, in Uttrakhand, India, have confirmed that yoga keeps heart healthy.In the study, which will be published in a forthcoming ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Indian researchers get Bill and Melinda Gates grants
October 22nd, 2009 - 4:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced 76 grants for bold and innovative ideas to improve global health and three of them have been bagged by ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Keeping a flower beautiful for years - Indian researchers tell how
October 19th, 2009 - 3:28 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Oct 19 (IANS) Imagine preserving the colour and shape of a flower for nearly 15 years! A team of researchers at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) museology department claims to have developed ... Read more...
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Brain mechanisms of cocaine addicts may pave way for future therapies
September 23rd, 2009 - 12:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 23 (ANI): A team of Indian researchers at University of Missouri is exploring how brain reacts to cocaine addiction - something that would open up new avenues for developing future ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Indian researchers convert textile waste into rich manure
July 17th, 2009 - 2:03 pm ICT by IANS
Hissar (Haryana), July 17 (IANS) Earthworms and some animal manure could convert waste from the textile industry into a rich compost for agriculture, researchers here have found.
Most gardeners will tell you earthworm ... Read more...
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Smoking linked to brain damage, say Indian researchers
June 24th, 2009 - 1:58 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) There is a direct link between smoking and brain damage, according to new research conducted by Debapriya Ghosh and Dr. Anirban Basu from the Indian National Brain ... Read more...
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National Conference on “State of Competition in the Indian Economy” to begin today
June 11th, 2009 - 10:06 am ICT by ANI
New Delhi, June 11 (ANI): A two-day National Conference on the 'State of Competition in the Indian Economy' will begin here today.The conference is being organised by the Competition Commission of ... Read more...
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Bill Gates’ foundation targets Indians for research grants
April 2nd, 2009 - 8:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation Thursday announced $100,000 grants for researchers to develop innovative ideas to address maternal and child health care issues. The third round ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Indian researchers nano-pill will soon make insulin jabs history
January 24th, 2009 - 2:33 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan 24 (ANI): Diabetics would soon be able to take a pill of insulin-filled nanoparticles instead of having to give themselves painful jabs, an Indian researcher has claimed.Researcher Chandra Sharma ... Read more...
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Indian researchers improved anti-hacking system for wireless networks
September 4th, 2008 - 12:30 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 4 (ANI): Computer scientists at Florida Atlantic University, including an Indian-origin researcher, have devised a new anti-hacking system to protect wireless sensor networks (WSN).
Feng Li, Avinash Srinivasan, and Jie ... Read more...
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Indian researchers on way to creating vital part of human eye
August 13th, 2008 - 1:46 pm ICT by IANS
By Papri Sri Raman
Chennai, Aug 13 (IANS) Half a dozen eye hospitals in India are collaborating with a research centre here to create the inner layer of the cornea, the vital window ... Read more...
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