India Study Group

Joke: HRD hopes to make $10 laptops a reality

Source NEW DELHI: Having rejected Nicholas Negroponte’s offer of $100 laptops for schoolchildren, HRD ministry’s idea to make laptops at $10 is firmly taking shape with two designs already in and public sector undertaking Semiconductor Complex evincing interest to be a part of the project. So far, the cost of one laptop, after factoring in [...]

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Typical big talk? India plans moon mission ‘by 2007′

Is it the typical Indian big talk? Now it’s mid of 2008 now: Source India plans moon mission ‘by 2007′ NEW DELHI, India – Indian space scientists believe the moon is within reach for the country’s space program and expect to launch an unmanned lunar probe within five years, reports say. According to the Times of India, scientists with [...]

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What will happen when the two most populous nations on Earth join scientific forces?

Source In 1956, China started building a road through Aksai Chin, a remote region of the Himalayas claimed by India. When Indian leaders learned about the move—which, due to the area’s inaccessibility, didn’t happen until a couple of years later—they were incensed. By 1962, the two countries were battling it out between the peaks of the [...]

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Education and R&D gap between China and India

This is a good article published on IndianExpress. It lists and points out the huge gap between China and India in the education and science and technology R&D. The source of the article: http://www.indianexpress.com/story/12493.html We need the best for the brightest Arun Shourie Posted online: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST An inverse snobbery [...]

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India’s scientific talent pool much smaller than China’s

Indians and many of India’s propagandas often say that India is a scientific and techological power. But this claim can hardly be tested by real numbers. Of the 14 countries spends on research and development, India is the only country who spent single digit of US dollars per capita on R&D. India has [...]

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India way behind China, world in innovation

New Delhi: India had a meagre 6,406 patents as compared to 182,385 in China and the world average of 846.71 patents in force in 2004, with the total number of patent filings by Indians per million population standing at 3.40 in 2004-05 as compared to the world average of 250.72 worked out [...]

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