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A trailblazer in many ways, Dr N Kalaiselvi has created history by becoming the first woman director of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

A new study conducted by the scientists at Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research–Central Food Technological Research Institute (CSIR–CFTRI) found that new protein-based antimicrobials from beneficial microbes could be a better replacement for conventional antibiotics look p in the food industry.

For the first time, scientists from the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have planted hing saplings in Himachal Pradesh’s Kwaring village.

Entirely self-trained, this ace inventor from colonial-era Bombay shot to global fame with his revolutionary 'Bhisotype.' And yet he remains all but forgotten in his own country. Time this changed! #ForgottenHeroes #History

“I can truly say that [but] for Dr. Bhatnagar you could not have seen today the chain of national laboratories”, once said Nehru about the ‘Father of India’s Research Laboratories’. He was not wrong.

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

Just yesterday, the Supreme Court ordered that only ‘green firecrackers’ can be manufactured and sold. Here’s what CSIR has in store to help implement the same!

Prototypes of the device, named WAYU, have been installed at the ITO Junction in central Delhi and Mukarba Chowk in north Delhi.

The 72-seater aircraft was Spicejet’s Bombardier Q400 (VT-SUI) and was flagged off by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat from Dehradun’s Jolly Grant airport.

Setting an eco-friendly example, Maharashtra government has made it compulsory for the state PWD to use plastic waste for road construction and repair.