Assam Scientist

A scientist from Assam - Chayan Dutta - is a senior ISRO scientist and is leading the space agency's bid to successfully complete India's first soft landing on the lunar surface.

The flood situation in Assam continued unabated today with over 8 lakh people across 2,585 villages in 29 districts hit by the natural disaster. Fourteen people have died in the floods and landslides triggered by pre-monsoon rains.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma congratulated Dr Jubilee Purkayastha, a scientist with the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, for her outstanding contributions in the development of an anti-Covid drug.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal met with senior scientists today to ask for a study of tremors reported from the Baghjan region, where last week a leaking gas well caught fire and killed two people

Altogether 284 child scientists from 33 districts of the state are participating in the four-day event.

Scientists who are studying water issues in the Brahmaputra basin have agreed that a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Tibet in November could have made the water of Siang River, in China, to turn muddy as it flowed into India. Siang is known as Tsangpo river in Tibet and it enters India in Arunachal Pradesh; it becomes Brahmaputra near Sadiya i...

The last meal that the supermassive black hole of the Milky Way had was six million years ago, when it consumed a large clump of infalling gas before burping out a colossal bubble of gas weighing the equivalent of millions of suns, a new research led by an Indian scientist from here has found.

In collaboration with researchers from Assam's Tezpur University, Russian scientists have developed a substance-based cobra venom and quantum dots that can glow and help surgeons see the boundaries of cancerous tumour.

The government has asked scientists to work towards developing a system to predict cloudburst, the Rajya Sabha was told today as it discussed the flood situation which has claimed lives of 196 people and caused other damage in various parts of the country.

Scientists from Assam's Tezpur University and West Bengal's Visva-Bharati University have unlocked the potential of natural chemicals derived from a particular species of Hibiscus that can help generate a better therapeutic agent for diabetes.According...

Is it possible to eat rice without having to cook it? Yes indeed, the soft rice varieties grown across Assam and the north east is ready to eat after it is soaked in plain water.

A scientist from Assam - Chayan Dutta - is a senior ISRO scientist and is leading the space agency's bid to successfully complete India's first soft landing on the lunar surface.

The flood situation in Assam continued unabated today with over 8 lakh people across 2,585 villages in 29 districts hit by the natural disaster. Fourteen people have died in the floods and landslides triggered by pre-monsoon rains.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma congratulated Dr Jubilee Purkayastha, a scientist with the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, for her outstanding contributions in the development of an anti-Covid drug.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal met with senior scientists today to ask for a study of tremors reported from the Baghjan region, where last week a leaking gas well caught fire and killed two people

Altogether 284 child scientists from 33 districts of the state are participating in the four-day event.

Scientists who are studying water issues in the Brahmaputra basin have agreed that a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Tibet in November could have made the water of Siang River, in China, to turn muddy as it flowed into India. Siang is known as Tsangpo river in Tibet and it enters India in Arunachal Pradesh; it becomes Brahmaputra near Sadiya i...

The last meal that the supermassive black hole of the Milky Way had was six million years ago, when it consumed a large clump of infalling gas before burping out a colossal bubble of gas weighing the equivalent of millions of suns, a new research led by an Indian scientist from here has found.

In collaboration with researchers from Assam's Tezpur University, Russian scientists have developed a substance-based cobra venom and quantum dots that can glow and help surgeons see the boundaries of cancerous tumour.

The government has asked scientists to work towards developing a system to predict cloudburst, the Rajya Sabha was told today as it discussed the flood situation which has claimed lives of 196 people and caused other damage in various parts of the country.

Scientists from Assam's Tezpur University and West Bengal's Visva-Bharati University have unlocked the potential of natural chemicals derived from a particular species of Hibiscus that can help generate a better therapeutic agent for diabetes.According...

Is it possible to eat rice without having to cook it? Yes indeed, the soft rice varieties grown across Assam and the north east is ready to eat after it is soaked in plain water.