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Students of Environmental Science from JNU at a bus stop on the campus during their class preparing sound pressure level data to check with noise measuring instruments, on March 21, 2018.

The JNU difference

Jawaharlal Nehru University’s unique admissions policy ensures that students come from all corners of the country, from all socio-economic backgrounds

The Rafale fighter aircraft at the AERO India 2019 show in Bengaluru on February 18.

Devil in the details

The CAG report on the Rafale deal remains silent on several crucial issues, and its meek acceptance of the government’s line of thinking is another tr

A Dassault Aviation Rafale fighter jet on an assembly line in Merignac, south-western France, on January 14, 2019.

L’affaire Rafale

As the controversy over the Rafale deal continues to simmer, the question is whether it will turn out to be Narendra Modi’s Bofors.

Eric Trappier, chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation; Anil Ambani, chairman of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group; and French Defence Minister Florence Parly in Nagpur on October 27, 2017, to attend the foundation-stone-laying ceremony for Dassault Reliance Aerospace Limited.

Problematic all the way

In cancelling the original tender and going for the outright purchase of a mere 36 Rafale fighters instead of the projected requirement of 126, the go

'Vigyan Rail', a science exhibition on wheels, organised by Anna University, Chennai; Vigyan Prasar, New Delhi; and Indian Railways, at Chennai Central Station in April 2004.-V. GANESAN

Technology deficit

Science is seen mostly as mediated by technology. Yet science popularisation' in India is rarely about technology.

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