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Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar
Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar is a National Award instituted by the Government of India to recognize the contributions of outstanding researchers in the fields of science, technology and innovation. The award has been the subject of controversy because the final selection of awardees is conducted by a political official, the Ministry_of_Science_and_Technology_(India), Minister of Science and Technology, rather than a scientific committee. Background The institution of this award was announced in January 2024 and the names of the first set of awardees were announced on 7 August 2024. The awards were distributed on 22 August 2024, a day ahead of the National Space Day. The award consists of a certificate signed by the President of India and a medallion. Eligibility Scientists, technologists and innovators working in Govt. or private organizations in India who have done highly impactful research, discovery or innovation are eligible for the award. Moreover, such persons of Indian origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohit Srivastava (scientist)
Rohit Srivastava (born 1976) is a Himanshu Patel Chair Professor in the Department of Biosciences and Bioegineering at IIT Bombay specialising in medical diagnostic devices, nanoengineered materials and photothermal cancer therapy. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Sciences in the year 2021 for his contributions to the development of affordable medical devices. Rohit Srivastava heads the NanoBios Lab in the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering in IIT Bombay. The lab has developed and commercialised several products including UChek which is a mobile based portable urine analysis system, a low-cost reader for analyzing urine dip sticks, and Suchek which is an indigenous, low-cost glucometer. He along with his collaborators has as many as 90 granted Indian and three US patents to their credit with more than 250 patent applications filed over 19 years at IIT Bombay. Srivastava was honoured with the Vigyan Shri award, one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Science And Technology (India)
The Ministry of Science and Technology is the Indian government ministry charged with formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws relating to science and technology in India. Organisation The ministry includes the following departments: Department of Biotechnology Autonomous Institutes * National Institute of Immunology, Delhi * National Centre for Cell Science, Pune * National Brain Research Centre, Manesar * Kalam Institute of Health Technology, Visakhapatnam * Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad *Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, Imphal *National Institute Of Plant Genome Research, Delhi *Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore * Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneshwar * Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram *Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad *Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad *National Institute of Animal Biotechnol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxy Koll
Roxy Mathew Koll is a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune. His research focuses on climate change and extreme weather events in the Indo-Pacific region, with significant contributions to understanding of Indian Ocean warming, monsoon dynamics, heatwaves, tropical cyclones and their impacts on public health. He was involved in writing the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate and the Sixth Assessment Report. Education Koll completed a B.Sc. in physics from CMS College Kottayam, followed by an M.Sc. in physical oceanography from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Ocean and Atmospheric Dynamics from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2007. Career Koll worked as a Research Scientist at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) in Bologna, Italy, from 2008 to 2010. Since 2010, he has worked as a scientist at IITM, Pune, involved in projects related to ocea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR; IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada'') is a research and development (R&D) organisation in India to promote scientific, industrial and economic growth. Headquartered in New Delhi, it was established as an autonomous body in 1942 under the aegis of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. CSIR is among the largest publicly funded R&D organisations in the world. CSIR has pioneered sustained contribution to science and technology (S&T) human resource development in India. it runs 37 laboratories/institutes, 39 outreach centres, 3 Innovation Centres and 5 units throughout the nation, with a collective staff of over 14,000, including a total of 4,600 scientists and 8,000 technical and support personnel. Although it is mainly funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, it operates as an autonomous body through the Socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Awards And Decorations Of India
Civil may refer to: *Civility, orderly behavior and politeness *Civic virtue, the cultivation of habits important for the success of a society *Civil (journalism) ''The Colorado Sun'' is an online news outlet based in Denver, Colorado. It launched on September 10, 2018, to provide long-form, in-depth coverage of news from all around Colorado. It was started with two years of funding from blockchain ventu ..., a platform for independent journalism * Civil (surname) See also * {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suman Chakraborty
Suman Chakraborty (born 8 August 1973) is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Sir J. C. Bose National Fellow (bestowed by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India). In June 2025, he was appointed as the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, becoming one of the few faculty members to rise to this prestigious position from within the institute. Recently, he has been awarded the 2026 TWAS Award in Engineering and Computer Sciences by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for his seminal work in micro- and nanoscale flows that has enabled innovations in diagnostic technologies and improved healthcare access for marginalized populations. He has been the first in the history of IIT Kharagpur to be bestowed by the National Award for Teachers in the Higher Education Category by the honourable President of India. He is also Institute Chair Professor Awardee of 2023. He has served as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principal Scientific Adviser To The Government Of India
The Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) is the chief advisor to the Government of India on matters related to scientific policy. It is currently a Cabinet Secretary level position created in 1999 by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. The first appointed Principal Scientific Adviser was A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. This was followed by Rajagopala Chidambaram who held the rank of a Minister of State and was the PSA for 16 years. The current PSA is Ajay Kumar Sood. The 'Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser', through the Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC) helps scientific cross-sectoral synergy across ministries, institutions, and the industry. Appointees There have been a total of four PSAs so far: Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India advises the government in science and technology policies and interventions that are of strategic socio-economic im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize For Science And Technology
Shanti or Shanthi may refer to: In Sanskrit * Inner peace, a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress * Kshanti, one of the paramitas of Buddhism * Shanti Mantras or "Peace Mantras", Hindu prayers or sacred utterances believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers * Shanti Parva, a book of the ''Mahabharata'' People * Shanthi (actress), Indian actress * Shanthi (choreographer), Indian choreographer and actress * Shanti Devi (1926–1987), Indian woman at the center of a case of supposed reincarnation * Shanti Devi (Uttar Pradesh politician) (born 1937), Indian politician * Shanti Roney (born 1970), Swedish actor * Shanti Snyder (born 1981), Japanese/English lyricist, singer, songwriter, and music TV host * Oliver Shanti (born 1948), New Age musician * Shanti Wintergate, musician/writer * Shanthi Krishna (born 1960), Tamil and Malayalam movi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suvrat Raju
Suvrat Raju is an Indian physicist. He is known for his work on black holes. He was awarded the 2019 ICTP Prize and the 2022 Nishina Asia award. Research Raju advanced a potential resolution of the black hole information paradox, which is based on the idea that "all the information inside a black hole can be recovered from outside" in quantum gravity. Together with Kyriakos Papadodimas, Raju formulated the Papadodimas-Raju proposal for black holes Raju was part of a collaboration that proposed the utility of the Mellin transform in AdS/CFT arguing that it provided a "natural language" for correlation functions. Raju was part of a collaboration that developed an "index" for quantum field theories with super-conformal symmetry. Career Raju studied physics at St. Stephen's College in Delhi University from 1999 to 2002. He earned his PhD at Harvard University in 2008. He is currently a professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbasi Sinha
Urbasi Sinha is an Indian physicist and professor at the Raman Research Institute. Her research considers quantum information science and quantum photonics. She was named in the Asian Scientist 100 list in 2018, appointed an Emmy Noether Fellow in 2020 and awarded the Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award in 2023. She was awarded the Vigyan Yuva Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in the Physics category in 2024. Early life and education Sinha was born in London and completed her undergraduate from Jadavpur university graduate and doctoral degrees at the University of Cambridge. Her research considered superconducting devices. Her doctorate involved explorations of the Josephson effect. She moved to the Institute for Quantum Computing for her postdoctoral research, where she became interested in quantum computing and optics. Here she developed a triple-slit variation to the double-slit experiment; testing the Born rule. The Born rule predicts the probability that a meas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pragya D
Pragya is a development organisation which addresses the needs of people living in areas such as high-altitude regions and areas emerging from conflict. Pragya implements projects in the high-altitude Himalayan regions of India and Nepal, and the highlands and savannas of East Africa. Pragya shapes and enables sustainable development with a focus on communities and ecosystems in remote and hard-to-reach areas of the world, focusing on social development, natural resource management, appropriate technology, and enterprise development. History Pragya was founded in 1995 to address the serious issues that face indigenous communities in the high Indian Himalayas. Since then, Pragya has worked to protect the natural environment of the Himalayas and support the people. Pragya is an alliance of practitioners. In its early work, Pragya took care of the ecosystems and cultures of the people who lived in the Indian Himalayas. Pragya has been successful in developing solutions such as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahesh Kakde
Mahesh Ramesh Kakde (born 1983) is a mathematician working in algebraic number theory. Biography Mahesh Kakde was born on 1983 in Akola, India. He obtained a Bachelor of Mathematics degree at the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore in 2004, and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 2005. He completed his PhD under the supervision of John Coates at the University of Cambridge in 2008. He subsequently worked at Princeton University, University College London, and King's College London, before becoming a professor at the Indian Institute of Science in 2019. Research Kakde proved the main conjecture of Iwasawa theory in the totally real case. Together with Samit Dasgupta and Kevin Ventullo, he proved the Gross–Stark conjecture. In a joint project with Samit Dasgupta, they proved the Brumer–Stark conjecture away from 2 in 2020, and later over \mathbb Z in 2023. Generalising these methods, they also gave a solution to Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
