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The Price Of Triumph: NSG Waiver And After THE NSG waiver is now officially in the bag, with the Indian media portraying this to be a major foreign policy victory. What has been … Read more
The Hard Landing For Nuclear Power HYPE is very much like a drug induced high – makes you feel you are floating on air as long as it lasts, but the landing … Read more
Bailout For US Automobile Big-3 IT has been a while since the US Congress approved a $750 billion bail-out package aimed at pulling the US out of the biggest crisis in US and global … Read more
Twelfth Congress of the All India Peoples Science Network ON December 20, 2008, the streets of Ranchi reverberated to the sounds of Jan Vigyan Zindabad, AIPSN Zindabad as over 2,500 activists of the … Read more
(Below is an abridged version of the background paper circulated at a workshop, organised to examine the notion of Science Commons – a collaborative, open source framework for promoting advances and innovations in Science. … Read more
SOCIETY FOR DELHI SCIENCE FORUM D-158, Lower Ground Floor Saket, New Delhi – 110017 Memorandum of Association 1) Name of the Society: The name of the society shall be “Society for Delhi Science Forum” henceforth … Read more
Military Aviation Supermarket Aviation buffs and business analysts, especially of the India poised variety, were all agog at the Aero India show in Bangalore earlier this month. At last, the air show at Yelahanka air … Read more
HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 4978 OF 2002 Date of hearing: September 16, 2002 Date of decision: September 16, 2002 Delhi Science Forum PETITIONER Through: Mr S.Muralidhar with Ms. … Read more
Alternatively: Pakistan: Squandering its Technological Legacy Technology Acquisition in Pakistan: Story of a Failed Privileged Class and a Successful Working Class, Ghulam Kibria, City Press, 1998. Engineers and technologists are generally an inarticulate lot and … Read more
Broadcasting Culture and the Public Interest, David Page and William Crawley, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2000, pp. 455, Rs.250.00 India’s Communications Revolution: From Bullock Carts to Cyber Marts, Arvind Singhal and Everett M Rogers, Sage … Read more
Technical Education in India has had a huge quantitative expansion in the last two decades, particularly with the mushrooming of capitation fee colleges. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has allowed a number … Read more
The annual mela that is the Indian Science Congress took a turn for the worse this year. Vajpayee’s inauguration of the Congress on 3rd January was coupled with celebration of the militarisation of science. The … Read more