Bangladesh has signed an agreement with India to formally join New Delhi's 'South Asia Satellite' initiative, through which the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch a communication satellite for serving the South Asia region.


Bangladesh to join India's South Asia Satellite initiative


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As India continues to have 24 per cent of the world's total Tuberculosis (TB) burden, the Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR) on Thursday called for a comprehensive research in multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis, citing that resistance to antimicrobials is growing at a faster rate than discovery of newer and more potent drugs.


India urged to intensify research for multi-drug resistant TB


As many as 34 young Indian scientists have been invited for the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany from June 25 to 30, it was announced on Wednesday.


34 Indian scientists to meet Nobel laureates in Germany


South Korea's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that North Korea failed in its test-firing of a missile that was believed to have exploded in the air, a media report said.


Seoul says Pyongyang failed in missile test


North Korea test-fired missiles on Wednesday but apparently ended in failure, South Korea's military said.


Seoul confirms Pyongyang missile test failure


Three Indian scientific journals have featured, for the first time since their inception, special issues authored exclusively by women scientists to trigger a debate on lower representation of women in science.


Women scientists focus of three Indian science journals


Doctors have cured a patient with rare blood disorder in which the patient's body did not produce enough red blood cells that could have caused progressive organ damage and early death.


Doctors cure first patient with rare blood disorder


A team of researchers has developed a cheap, portable camera that can photograph the retina without the need for pupil-dilating eye drops.


No dilating required with this pocket-sized retina camera 


Now doctors may soon be able to detect and monitor a patient's cancer with a simple blood test, reducing or eliminating the need for more invasive procedures, according to a new research.


Novel blood test may help detect cancer early


In the face of a travel ban issued by US President Donald Trump, academics must strengthen, rather than sever, ties to the country, an expert has suggested.


Need to strengthen ties with US academics: Expert


Australian scientists have discovered a "key molecule", which can kill microbes that infect the human liver, a breakthrough experts believe could bring a malaria vaccine one step closer.


Scientific breakthrough to aid malaria vacccine research


Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 789. Whether this pun makes you giggle or groan in pain, your reaction is a consequence of the ambiguity of the joke.


Why jokes are funny? Ask quantum theory


Chinese researchers have found that a drug used to treat diabetes could be effective against a form of breast cancer.


Diabetes drug may help treat breast cancer


The evolution of human skull took place along with two-legged walking, researchers have confirmed.


Human skull hole evolved with walking on two legs 


President Donald Trump's proposed budget for fiscal 2018 will "cripple" science and technology enterprise in the US, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has warned.


American science body slams Trump's budget proposals


The warming climate could make us shorter over time, suggests new research that found that mammals in the past had responded to extreme global warming events by shrinking in size.


Global warming could make us shorter


In a bid to develop New Town, a satellite township on the north-eastern fringes of the city, as India's happiest space, IIT-Kharagpur will study the happiness index of the locality as part of a two-year project, a statement said on Thursday.


IIT-Kharagpur to help New Town become 'happiest part of India'


Recovery after the world's worst mass extinction, or "Great Dying" that occurred about 252 million years ago, was slowed by two other extinction events, says a study.


'Great Dying' was followed by more extinctions


February 2017 was the second warmest February in 137 years of modern record-keeping, scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York have found.


Last month was second warmest February on record: NASA


Using biofuels to help power jet engines cuts particle emissions in their exhaust by as much as 50 to 70 per cent, says a NASA study.


Biofuels can cut jet engine pollution by half


Australia's Great Barrier Reef can be saved only if urgent steps are taken to reduce global warming, a new research revealed on Thursday.

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