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• Vote for India

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  21 May 2008

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  If you would like to see “India” as a local hub on Nature Network (in navigation bar), then please change your location.

  Please see details posted by Matt Brown here.
  http://network.nature.com/forums/india/1602

• Commenwealth Scholarships for Indian Students in NewZealand 2009

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  16 April 2008

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  COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIP PLAN, NEW ZEALAND AWARDS-2009

  Last Date : 30th April, 2008

  Further Information Here

• Indian Government plans multiple universities and hikes science spending.

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  21 January 2008

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  India aims for ‘quantum jump’ in science
  Government plans multiple universities and hikes science spending.
  K. S. Jayaraman

  Published online 9 January 2008 | Nature 451, 112 (2008) | doi:10.1038/451112b

  http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080109/full/451112b.html

• NORTH INDIAN athletes are as likely to be world-class

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  28 December 2007

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  NORTH INDIAN athletes are as likely to be world-class sprinters if it were just a matter of genes, according to a duo of geneticists at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow.

  ACTN3: Athlete gene prevalence in
  North India
  Himanshu Goel and Balraj Mittal*
  Department of Genetics, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of
  Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226 014, India

  Also published in todays Hindustan Times print edition..

• Biotechnology YES Young Entrepreneurs Scheme

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  09 August 2007

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  Biotechnology YES (Young Entrepreneurs Scheme)

  Application Deadline: 24th August, 2007

  Biotechnology YES (Young Entrepreneurs Scheme) is aimed at encouraging young postgraduate and doctoral students in developing biotechnology entrepreneurship and exposing them to issues involved in commercialization of bio-science.

  1.2 The scheme is sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) & UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), UK Government.

  YES is supported by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), New Delhi, a worldwide not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship globally and Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprise (ABLE), the apex Biotechnology Industry Association of India.

  Details can be found at http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/proposals/Areas/IC/ADVT_YES.doc

• Call for nanotechnology proposals by Indo-German Science and Technology Cooperation

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  08 July 2007

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  Call for nanotechnology proposals by Indo-German Science and Technology Cooperation

  Full Details Here

• India Turning Ocean Water Into Rain

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  03 July 2007

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  India is using Low Temperature Thermal Desalination Technology to convert ocean Water into drinking water. This is world’s first low temperature thermal desalination plant started in 2005 which uses ocean’s temperature gradient to produce fresh water.

  Recently Science published the success story of Kavaratti plant developed by National Institute of Ocean Technology, India.

  

  The government is planning to set up more desalination plants with a capacity of 10 million litres/per day on all islands and coastal areas as an alternative source of fresh water.

  Full Story in Science, 29 June 2007: Turning Ocean Water Into Rain by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

  National Institute of Ocean Technology, India

• Uniform admission for PhD, MPhil soon

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  01 July 2007

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  University Grants Commission (UGC) is set to introduce uniform guidelines for admission and examination for PhD and MPhil courses in order to bring parity in them

  Full Story at Tribune News

• Goodwin Biotechnology Expands to India

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  29 June 2007

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  Wallace Pharmaceuticals (www.wallacepharma.com) of Goa, India, acquired Goodwin Biotechnology, the oldest contract manufacturing organizations (CMO) of mAbs and recombinant proteins in America.
  
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• Math, Science teachers sought from India

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  29 June 2007

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  Beaufort County School District is recruiting in India to help the shortage of math and science teachers. The school board approved in December an incentive plan to give incoming math, science and special education teachers a $3,000 signing bonus among other perks.
  
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• London School of Economics and Tata Institute of Social Sciences Partnership

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  28 June 2007

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  The Jamsetji Tata Trust has pledged £1.8 million to the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to support research collaboration between the LSE and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India.

  Read full Story at Hindu

• Oxford University tie-up with CII, India to set up India Business Centre

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  26 June 2007

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  A memorandum has been signed by CII President Sunil Bharti Mittal and Dr John Hood, Vice Chancellor, University of Oxford to build India Business Centre in India and UK.

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• NERC UK-India Collaboration on Science of Climate Change

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  26 June 2007

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  Science project manager

  NERC UK-India Collaboration on Science of Climate Change

  Closing date: Expressions of Interest to be submitted by 31 July 2007

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• New opportunities in India for New Zealand IT companies – and management training

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  26 June 2007

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  The Massey University’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) and its Auckland-based e-Centre have both signed agreements for partnerships with India-based CMC Limited, formerly IBM.

  Read Massey University Press Release