Additional affidavit on behalf of Maharashtra Pollution Control Board in the matter of a news item appearing in the Press Journal dated April 10, 2024 about disposal of garbage around Mahim railway station's track. The report stated that platforms and railway tracks were found cleaned during inspection by the SPCB. …
WHEN was the last time you read a popular science book which made you laugh? Or which didn't treat you like a cretin and didn't make absurd, pseudo-scientific statements regarding mysterious connections between modern science and dancing masters of various kinds? Universe Down to Earth is just such a book, …
WITH THE claim of having the world's third-largest scientific humanpower, India should have at least three flourishing periodicals with countrywide circulation disseminating science at the popular level. But that is hardly the case. Newspapers fare no better in reporting science news or features. Very often, what they report is only …
THIS IS the centenary year of Physical Review, one of the leading journals on physics. The journal has grown from its humble beginnings in New York in 1893, to become an institution in its own right. And though in the first few decades of its existence it was primarily a …
STATIC library budgets in India and soaring printing costs abroad have drastically reduced the inflow of foreign science and technology (S & T) journals. Indian institutions subscribe to less than 20 per cent of the 60,000 S & T journals published the world over. The number has dropped alarmingly -- …
INDIAN scientists rank among the 10 most prolific producers of scientific papers in the world; yet their research is among the least cited in international scientific and technological literature. This dismal finding is contained in a paper published in the Journal of Industrial and Scientific Research (Vol 51, No 2) …
