Dr Ranjana Aggarwal, Director, CSIR-National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies (CSIR-NISTADS), New Delhi, has been assigned the additional charge of the post of Director, CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (CSIR-NISCAIR), New Delhi. Previously, Dr Ranjana Aggarwal has served as Professor of Chemistry and Director, Women’s Studies Research Centre at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra where she was actively engaged in capacity building programmes, promotion of gender sensitization and skill development particularly among rural women. Read More

Shri Narendra Modi was sworn-in as India’s Prime Minister on 30th May 2019, marking the start of his second term in office. The first ever Prime Minister to be born after Independence, Shri Modi has previously served as the Prime Minister of India from 2014 to 2019. He also has the distinction of being the longest serving Chief Minister of Gujarat with his term spanning from October 2001 to May 2014. In the 2014 and 2019 Parliamentary elections, Shri Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party to record wins, securing absolute majority on both occasions. The last time that a political party secured Read More

Structural and computational biologist and Director of the Punebased National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Dr. Shekhar C. Mande has been appointed as the Director-General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Research (DSIR). One of India’s leading experts in DNA fingerprinting and diagnostics, Dr. Mande assumed the charge on 16 October 2018. As Director of the National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), an autonomous Institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Dr. Shekhar Mande oversaw the launch Read More