Sandeep Verma (स्वर) Hindu Business Line Vipin Sondhi Arguably, four such attempts have been made, with mixed successes CSIR in the 1950s TIFAC in the 1990s/2000s CSIR-tech in the 2010s ETG in 2020 All led by the govt, but with varying degrees of industry participation Today you have CTIER and Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology trying to do this.

Beyond grateful to @indscifest for sharing our first blog from #GenophenLab written by my students Bhagyashree and Pooja Bhagyashree Choudhury pooja rani This is about their first #scicomm experience at India Science Festival. I am happy they got back smiling and wanting to do more. Please do read

A new bionic knee outperforms other prostheses in helping people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb stairs, and avoid obstacles. In a small clinical study, users navigated more easily and said the limb felt more like part of their body. news.mit.edu/2025/bionic-kn…

New from MIT: What if AI could learn from sensitive data, like medical records or financial info, without risking your privacy? A new method called PAC Privacy does just that. It keeps AI accurate and secure, no trade-offs needed. news.mit.edu/2025/new-metho…

A small milestone in bringing Gita concepts to kids! Up and onwards...

Excellent news. World-class educational institutions can transform cities & states. Congratulations N Chandrababu Naidu Aditya Birla Group

We are delighted to share that Iowa State University (ISU) and the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) have officially launched a Dual Degree Program that empowers students to earn a Bachelor’s degree from IITGN and a Master’s degree from ISU!

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Perhaps a hint towards the post-LLM era? New paper shows information lattice learning (ILL) solidly beats Transformer models for visual classification tasks in the only-one-shot setting.

#ETMorningBriefPodcast | Varun Aggarwal and Shubham Bansal of Change Engine talk to Anirban Chowdhury about their accelerator playbook for nonprofits to scale to million beneficiaries, latch on to govt projects, raise more CSR funds and utilise tech and innovation [🎙️]

50 years on, a pioneering ISRO project underlines tech’s value in real-life use, not just in missions. Brings back memories of early days of ISRO economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-com…

India needs bold, ambitious institutions in the social sector and we believe the next decade is our chance to build them. Varun Aggarwal and I had a great conversation with Anirban Chowdhury at Economic Times about why this is the best moment to build 100 #NonProfitUnicorns and what it

We invite applications for event spots at #ISF2026! Submit your innovative S&T event ideas and bring them to life at the India Science Festival. Get recognized as an official ISF collaborator and connect with top S&T minds worldwide. Visit: indiasciencefest.org/call-for-appli…

India needs more high-quality international conferences to serve as platforms for global engagement, academic excellence and industry-academia collaboration. I am happy to share that two high-quality international conferences we initiated a few years ago, both IEEE-backed and

India needs more research funding, especially from private sector.

In 1929, Alexander Fleming published his paper outlining the antibacterial properties of penicillin, and began the era of antibiotics. Read the Nobel Prize laureate's full article online: goo.gl/G8mUHd

#Legal certainty is as vital as #tariff certainty. #India's judiciary, executive, and legislature should work together to do what's needed. Amrita Agarwal and I write for the Mint.

Excellent initiative - wish more corporates would do this