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For his pioneering work on ribosomes, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009.

Bonded labour in this day and age is more unseen, more hidden, but still ruthless. It has journeyed far and beyond its conventional contours.

A realisation of the potential that organic waste handled in this manner holds and a push for the adoption of the same by the Ministry could give quite a fillip to this model.

Let’s harness the power of data to make sharper decisions and achieve a better impact. On this Republic Day, let’s resolve to look at facts and act fast for better India!

Uthara is a quintessential changemaker or "The Guardian" in Plato’s terms, a development sector professional specialising in grassroots community engagement.

It started with 25 residents and slowly grew by word of mouth.

From HAL to ISRO, IISc's enormously talented scientists played pivotal roles in building India’s aerospace programme. This is their story.

A pioneering IISc professor, Lakshmi Sita's lab at IISc attracted visitors such as Prince Charles and Ratan Tata.

Here is a collection of 15 such stories that gives a glimpse of important developments reported by Indian scientists during the year.

Children as young as eight and senior citizens as old as 83 stood in the human chain, demanding that the road destroying the sanctuary and the metro work, be stopped immediately.