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Narges Mohammadi, who won peace prize for her activism against oppression of women in Iran, is in prison in Tehran

Chester is ranked ‘prettiest city in the world’ by study due to high percentage of buildings adhering to golden ratio

Govt. to restart GIAN, PM Modi's pet project to bring foreign experts to teach in Indian universities. Since 2015-16, 1,612 foreign faculty members have visited from 59 countries, delivering 1,772 courses. IITs, NITs, State universities, IIITs, IISCs, IISERs, etc. have benefited, with 72,000 students directly impacted. MoE now insisting on…

Declarations of the end of an era are made only in exceptional circumstances. Henry Kissinger’s death is one of them.

An ‘enigmatic realist’ who fled Nazi Germany, Kissinger is remembered for ending the US war in Vietnam, opening China.

IIT-M suspends professor responsible for research scholar's death. A five-member committee found him solely responsible for Sachin Kumar Jain's suicide. Sen had delayed Sachin's research to 8 years, teased and humiliated him, and isolated him when he developed a close relationship with a female research scholar. On the day of…

The US reproductive health expert on being sued for $1m, and winning a top prize for her fight for free speech in the public interest

Boris Johnson should have imposed first national lockdown two weeks earlier, says chief scientific adviser

The country’s top scientists were never informed about the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, despite Boris Johnson saying they were consulted, the UK…

President of Italy-based The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Quarraisha Abdool Karim will be the chief guest at the 13th convocation of the Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (Deemed to be University), scheduled to be held on November 25. At a press conference on November 21 (Tuesday), university Vice-Chancellor G. Partha…

A reluctant librarian who became India’s father of library science