Everything you need to know about Jadavpur University: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Jadavpur University: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Washington, May 18 (ANI): Heavy drinkers who smoke have more problems with their memory, ability to think quickly and efficiently, and problem-solving skills, a study has suggested.
Washington, May 16 (IANS) Scientists have estimated that Mars is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 3.9 meters across, US space agency NASA said.
Lumami, May 15 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday called upon the faculty and students of the Nagaland University to search, spread, sense and celebrate innovations in the region.
Lumani (Nagaland), May 15 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday called upon students and teachers in Nagaland to spread innovations.
Shimla, May 14 (IANS) A day after clash among students of Himachal Pradesh University here left at least 12 people injured, the authorities Tuesday constituted a committee to probe the incident, an official said.
Washington, May 10 (ANI): The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster.
Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) With the chit fund catastrophe causing a major public uproar, economists feel even if all shady companies operating in West Bengal are closed down, it would not pose any major setback for the economy, though the already crisis-ridden sectors like service and real estate may be hit.
Washington, May 9 (ANI): A biologist and a team of researchers from George Washington University have created the first large-scale evolutionary family tree for every snake and lizard around the globe.
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Sanskrit universities in the country are facing a shortage of teachers, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor told the Lok Sabha Wednesday.
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) The West Bengal government has turned down the state human rights panel's recommendations to compensate Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and his neighbour who were earlier arrested for circulating emails mocking Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, an official said Monday.
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) One can now have access to the entire oeuvre of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore online, in both Bengali and English.
Kolkata, May 5 (ANI): At a time when the nation is suffering from rising instances of atrocities against women in the country, President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said it was time to "reset the moral compass" of the society.
Kolkata, May 5 (IANS) Amid the rising instances of atrocities against women in the country, President Pranab Mukherjee Sunday said it was time to "reset the moral compass" of the society.
New Delhi, May 5 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee will undertake a three-day visit to West Bengal (Kolkata and Midnapore) from today.
New Delhi, May 4 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee will undertake a three-day visit to West Bengal (Kolkata and Midnapore) from May 5 to 7.
Washington, April 25 (ANI): University of Guelph researchers have created the first-ever vaccine for gut bacteria common in autistic children that may help control some autism symptoms.
Kolkata, April 24 (IANS) With the Mamata Banerjee government facing the heat following the collapse of the Saradha Group, rebel Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman added fuel to the fire by composing a song parodying the chit fund fiasco.
Washington, April 22 (ANI): A gene therapy approach developed by researchers at Northeastern University in Boston may one day stop Parkinson's disease (PD) in it tracks, preventing disease progression and reversing its symptoms.
Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) Two Maoists were arrested from the city and arms, ammunition and some documents recovered from them police said Friday.
Washington, April 19 (ANI): Those working in physically demanding jobs are more susceptible to heart disease, two new studies suggests.
London, Apr 18 (ANI): Super slow-motion footage of a moth in flight has revealed how insects use their bodies to hover.
Washington, April 17 (ANI): A binary star that potentially weighed 300 to 400 solar masses at birth has been observed, which astronomers believe that could be the most massive double star discovered so far.
Gangtok, April 16 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee laid the foundation stone of the Sikkim University campus today.
London, April 14 (ANI): Scientists have revealed that listening to some great tunes equals great sex, as it stimulates the same part of the brain that is triggered by a scrumptious meal or lovemaking.
Washington, April 14 (ANI): Students who are heavy texters place less importance on moral, aesthetic, and spiritual goals, and greater importance on wealth and image, a new study has found.
Washington, April 12 (IANS/EFE) Spain will emerge from the current crisis with a much healthier economy, Spanish power giant Iberdrola's CEO, Jose Ignacio Sanchez Galan, said Thursday during an event at Harvard University.
Washington, April 12(ANI): The way our hands look today has been shaped by our behaviour over millions of years, say scientists.
Washington, April 10 (IANS) A study by American scientists presented Wednesday supports the view that a substance in egg white has the ability to lower blood pressure without negative effects.
Kazan (Russia), April 9 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The $115 million swimming hall that will host much of the 2015 World Aquatics Championships here is to open Friday, organisers of the University Games told R-Sport.
London, April 7 (ANI): Computer scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have developed a new software, which uses LinkedIn network to guide your career.
Washington, Apr. 6 (ANI): A new line of caffeinated gum by Wrigley's, which promises to sooth commuters on the run, has raised concerns among health experts about the proliferation of such products.
London, Apr. 5 (ANI): American researchers have found the link between the success of a marriage and weight gain or loss.
Washington, Apr. 5 (ANI): A controversial Fox News host has sparked anger for saying that there was 'some indication' that 'Jesus may have been gay'.
Washington, April 5 (ANI): While it is generally accepted that some important ingredients for life came from meteorites bombarding the early Earth, scientists have not been able to explain how that lifeless rock transformed into the building blocks of life.
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) Students largely stayed away from schools and colleges while traffic came to a virtual standstill in many cities of West Bengal Thursday as Left youth groups protested over the death of a student activist in police custody.
London, Apr 3 (ANI): A mathematician from Cambridge University has come up with what he thinks is a sure-fire way to predict the winner at horse races.
London, Apr. 3 (ANI): Allowing people to drink for longer has led to an increase in the number of workers absenteeism, researchers have found.
Washington, Apr 2 (ANI): Your height is still in your hands even if you avoided veggies and milk as a child, a new study has revealed.
London, Apr. 1 (ANI): Britain's greatest poet and playwright William Shakespeare was also a tax avoider and a profiteer, a study has claimed.
London, Mar 30 (ANI): Researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan have developed a "smelling screen" that makes smells appear to come from the exact spot on any LCD screen that is displaying the image of a cup of coffee.
London, Mar 29 (ANI): Mariah Carey has been invited to give a masterclass at Oxford University, according to reports.
Washington, Mar. 29 (ANI): Scientists have unveiled a new technique for vaccine design that could be particularly useful against HIV and other fast-changing viruses.
Washington, Mar. 28 (ANI): Disgraced former CIA director David Petraeus has apologized for his extra-marital affair that ensnared his career in an emotional speech at the University of Southern California event honoring the military.
Washington, March 19 (ANI): People suffering from complicated grief may have difficulty recalling specific events from their past or imagining specific events in the future, but not when those events involve the partner they lost.
Washington, Mar 19 (ANI): Skull pieces of an early human buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors.
Abu Dhabi, March 19 (IANS/WAM) Japan and Abu Dhabi have held talks over joint cooperation in the field of higher education.
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Theoretical physicist and member of the Presidency Mentor Group (PMG) Ashoke Sen has donated Rs.25 lakh to the Presidency University Vice Chancellor's Fund for excellence.
Beijing, March 16 (IANS) China's top universities began their annual independent recruitment exams Saturday, with English no longer included among the compulsory subjects.
Washington, Mar 15 (ANI): For those with irritable bowel syndrome who wonder if stress aggravates their intestinal disorder, a new study has shown that it's not all in their head.
Scientists from Northern Ireland, Sweden and the US have carried out a research that shows that some diabetes drugs or insulin if taken as in a simple nasal spray could have a remarkable effect on Alzheimer's disease.
London, Mar. 11 (ANI): Diabetes drugs, which are delivered in a simple nasal spray could also have a remarkable effect on Alzheimer's disease, scientists have claimed.
London, Mar. 8 (ANI): Canada's Arctic Archipelago glaciers will melt faster than ever in the next few centuries.
London, Mar.7 (ANI):New research is aiming to produce hearing aids which can distinguish better between speech and background noise and benefit the lives of the six million people in the UK with hearing impairments.
London, Mar.7 (ANI):New research is aiming to produce hearing aids which can distinguish better between speech and background noise and benefit the lives of the six million people in the UK with hearing impairments.
London, March 7 (ANI): Astronomers have improved the measurement of the distance to our nearest neighboring galaxy and, in the process, refine an astronomical calculation that helps measure the expansion of the universe.
London, March 6 (ANI): People with mental disorders are at increased risk of being victims of homicide, a new study has revealed.
Washington, Mar 6 (ANI): Nearly half of Africa's wild lion populations may decline to near extinction over the next 20-40 years without urgent conservation measures, a report has said.
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) The West Bengal Human Rights Commission Monday granted six weeks' time to the state government for implementing the panel's recommendations regarding the "wrongful" arrest of a professor for circulating emails mocking Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Dhaka, March 3 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in the Bangladesh capital Sunday morning.
London, Mar.1 (ANI): A researcher at the University of Southampton, working as part of a team from the UK and USA, believes the global eradication of malaria could be achieved by individual countries eliminating the disease within their own borders and coordinating efforts regionally. The team's findings have been published in the journal Science.
London, Mar.1 (ANI): A researcher at the University of Southampton, working as part of a team from the UK and USA, believes the global eradication of malaria could be achieved by individual countries eliminating the disease within their own borders and coordinating efforts regionally. The team's findings have been published in the journal Science.
Amsterdam, Feb 28 (IANS) Millions of tonnes of food are dumped into the waste bin each year, as the "best before" date on the package has passed. Much of what is dumped might still be safe to eat. A new device could aid that eat-or-throw decision.
Washington, February 28 (ANI): Biologists at Tufts University have, for the first time, shown that transplanted eyes located far outside the head in a vertebrate animal model can confer vision without a direct neural connection to the brain.
Wellington, February 27 (ANI): Having multiple sex partners put young people at greater odds of developing alcoholism and cannabis dependency, a new study led by an Indian origin scientist has found.
London, February 27 (ANI): A team of astronomers from Colombia has traced the origin of the meteor that struck central Russia earlier this month injuring about 1,000 people.
Granada (Spain), Feb 26 (IANS/EFE) The artist whose prosthetic audio-visual implant makes him the world's first cyborg said here Monday that society needs to see technology "as a human creation, not as something extraterrestrial".
London, Feb 24 (IANS) Driving when you feel groggy with a heavy cold can be as hazardous as drunken driving, because of slow reaction times, says a study.
Washington, February 24 (ANI): A new psychology study from the University of Texas at Austin has revealed the reason to why straight women and gay men form close relationships with one another.
Montreal, Feb 23 (IANS) Canadian scientists have hit upon a new, more effective substance that can destroy the influenza virus.
Washington, February 22 (ANI): An international group of scientists has discovered a new class of molecular compounds capable of killing the influenza virus.
Toronto, Feb 22 (IANS) A discovery could spur a new generation of drugs that would be more effective against the flu virus than current drugs.
London, Feb 21 (ANI): Spending just a few minutes skipping with a rope could be the perfect way to curb your appetite and get slim, a new study has found.
Washington, February 20 (ANI): Buyers of beauty products should not trust the claims that liposomes - small fat capsules often added to beauty products - can improve skin's appearance, says an expert.
Wellington, Feb 18 (IANS) Children and adolescents glued to TV sets tend to exhibit anti-social and criminal behaviour as adults, according to a research from New Zealand.
London, February 18 (ANI): MIT scientists are working on a new alcohol-busting drug that could help boozers sober up in seconds.
London, Feb 17 (ANI): Eating at least three portions of fruit and vegetables daily - including carrots, cabbages and kiwi fruit - gives your skin a "healthy" radiance akin to a tan after just a few weeks, a new study has revealed.
Minister of Social Welfare, Women and Child Development and Education, Prof. Kiran Walia has exhorted the people to curb all types of crime against women and to give them a safe and secure atmosphere for carving out their future and career.
Washington, February 14 (ANI): It may be difficult for you to find your perfect mate, but for one wasp species, it only takes a whiff of his special love potion to know whether he's "Mr. Right."
London, Feb 14 (IANS) A study has found learning to play an instrument at a young age can make a child grow up smarter in life.
Washington, Feb. 13 (ANI): Children, whose parents praised their efforts more than they praised them as individuals, had a more positive outlook towards challenges five years later, a new study has claimed.
Washington, Feb 13 (IANS) Researchers have developed a new lithium-ion battery that can recharge within 10 minutes and hold thrice as much energy as its existing counterparts.
Wellington, Feb 11 (IANS) A healthy diet and avoiding eating for two during pregnancy helps limit excess weight gain for both women and their babies, says a new research.
Berlin, Feb 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) German Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan has announced her resignation after she was stripped of her doctorate by a university amid accusations of plagiarism.
London, Feb 9 (ANI): Researchers in Japan have calculated that a squid can fly through the air faster than Usain Bolt can run.
Washington, Feb. 7 (ANI): Ever wonder why CEOs at poorly performing companies continue to receive exorbitant pay packages? According to a study from a University of Illinois labor professor, firms that trumpet how much they value shareholders actually pay their CEOs more, regardless of the quality of their performance as executives.
Washington, February 6(ANI): The newly discovered comet ISON could give sky watchers one of the brightest shows ever in the night sky during its close-up with the Sun beginning November 2013, according to researchers.
London, February 6 (ANI): Most mammals, including humans, see in stereo and hear in stereo, but now it's known that a ubiquitous garden critter can smell in stereo too.
Washington, February 6(ANI): Scientists have found that there is a direct relationship between exposure to pesticides (Persistent Organic Pollutants, CPOs) in food, air and water and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in adults, regardless of age, gender and body mass index.
Washington, February 6(ANI): According to new research from the University of Leeds Natural, chemicals found in green tea and red wine may disrupt a key step of the Alzheimer's disease pathway.
London, Feb 4 (IANS) A new study has delinked an unusually large summer cyclone originating in Siberia from last year's record low for Arctic sea ice.
Washington, Feb 2 (ANI): A research team in Israel has devised a novel approach to identifying the molecular basis for designing a drug that could decrease the risk diabetes patients face of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Washington, January 30 (ANI): Ocean-based mollusks - a category of animal that includes snails, clams and squid - and their bacterial companions could be the source of next class of powerful medications, researchers have suggested.
Washington, January 30 (ANI): Ocean-based mollusks - a category of animal that includes snails, clams and squid - and their bacterial companions could be the source of next class of powerful medications, researchers have suggested.
Washington, Jan 28 (IANS) US scientists have linked poor sleep with memory loss and cognitive deterioration as we age, opening the door to therapies for better sleep and recall capacity.
Washington, January 28 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have for the first time found a link between poor sleep, memory loss and brain deterioration in older adults.
Washington, January 24 (ANI): Managers tend to pick higher-risk options when forced to choose between competing alternatives to complex situations, according to a new Canadian study.
Amsterdam, Jan 23 (IANS) A revolutionary coating permits cotton to absorb roughly three-and-a-half times its own weight of water from misty air or fog.
London, Jan 23 (ANI): Chinese researchers have developed a "ghost cape" that can make one object appear to look like another.
Washington, January 19 (ANI): Researchers from Lund University say it really is possible to use nanowires to manufacture more efficient and cheaper solar cells.
Washington, January 17 (ANI): People suffering from chronic inflammatory conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and asthma - in which psychological stress plays a major role - may benefit from mindfulness meditation techniques, researchers say.
