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Celebrating the youth

The monthly classical music events organised by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture are serving the cause of music in a big way.

Lifting the curtains on Bengali theatre

Tapati Gupta's recent book, Analysing Bengali Drama: Time, Text & Performance (Dasgupta and Company), looks into some landmark aspects of Bengali theatre with regard to text and performances. 

For a lesser cause

Haris Azhar and Fatia Maulidiyanti, who had coordinated the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS), were accused of defamation by Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan.

Technology–Boon or Bane

The fast-paced stream of information on the Internet is not really in sync with the slower pace of real-life situations, which often results in frustration and bitter disappointment.

Choked flyovers

Although Delhi roads must be the heaviest administered part of the country, after the enactment of the new Motor Vehicles Act, there is no traffic cop in sight to help anyone.

Microbes to help develop Martian rocket bio-fuel on Red Planet

That transportation is expensive: ferrying the needed 30 tonnes of methane and LOX is estimated to cost around $8 billion. To reduce this cost, NASA proposed using chemical catalysis to convert Martian CO2 into LOX, but this still requires methane to be transported from Earth.

‘Science-based agri-innovations to help farmers’

It was organized jointly by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Biotech-KISAN Hub at ICAR-IARI, PUSA, New Delhi under the "Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav" celebrations, a statement from the Ministry said.

Rethink on education system

The new National Education Policy is also a step in this direction, as it seeks to lay a strong foundation on which to base higher learning.