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Ludhiana: PAU scholar’s research paper adjudged best at national conference
Shrishti Joshi along with Shikha Mahajan, Arashdeep Singh and Sonika Sharma, authored the paper entitled “Recent advances in addressing the nutritional, industrial and therapeutic effects of magical spice: Kalonji
Published on Mar 19, 2024 10:52 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Ludhiana
PAU scholar’s research paper adjudged best at national conference
Punjab Agricultural University scholar Shrishti Joshi awarded for best research paper on Kalonji at national conference on seed spices and allied crops.
Updated on Mar 19, 2024 08:02 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Ludhiana
Dr Verma, acclaimed prof of South Asian literature, passes away
Professor Verma taught for 42 years at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ) in Pennsylvania was born in 1932 in Punjab
Updated on Mar 09, 2024 07:02 AM IST
Press Trust of India, Washington
Great Lakes, Chennai launches FPM course, apply here
The FPM course will offer aspiring scholars unique learning experience through guidance by world class faculty at Great Lakes as well as global experts.
Published on Feb 21, 2024 06:28 PM IST
JPS Uberoi: A scholar who lived in a world without borders
JPS’s distinctive capacity was to reveal the entrails of power but also to unravel counter-power as civil society, as sangat (the congregation) and swaraj.
Published on Jan 16, 2024 10:15 PM IST
Review: Becoming Baba Saheb by Aakash Singh Rathore
While Aakash Singh Rathore’s writing occasionally teeters on the edge of adulation, on the whole, Becoming Baba Saheb conveys Ambedkar’s achievements in a way that’s dispassionate yet engrossing
Updated on Oct 14, 2023 09:02 AM IST
Syed Saad Ahmed
Sumit Baudh, queer Dalit scholar: “I felt like an outcaste in more than one way”
The author of the monograph, Law at the Intersection of Caste, Class and Sex, talks about the debates on Dalit representation in Made in Heaven and other things
Updated on Sep 07, 2023 12:40 PM IST
Writers pay tributes to Sahitya Akademi award winner Ramesh Kuntal Megh
He is survived by his daughter Shiprali Megh. The scholar was 92 and as per his wishes, his body was donated to the PGI. Megh received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2017
Updated on Sep 02, 2023 11:40 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Chandigarh
A significant step to dispel colonial legacy
Three new bills aim to replace British-era codes that govern India. But Parliament must take care to excise the bad provisions while not diluting the good
Published on Aug 14, 2023 12:22 AM IST
Hari Narke, ideologue of state OBC movement, passes away
Hari was a member of a committee that oversaw the publication of Dr B R Ambedkar’s writings and speeches as well as a member of the Maharashtra state commission for backward classes to champion the cause of OBCs
Updated on Aug 10, 2023 12:57 AM IST
Sunil Tambe
Art historian Kavita Singh passes away
Singh served at the Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Arts and Aesthetics, where she taught for nearly two decades.
Updated on Jul 31, 2023 01:53 AM IST
Saptarshi Das
Over the rainbow: A Wknd interview with author and poet Ruth Vanita
A new book encapsulates poetry themed on identity, loss, same-sex love; another traces battles for marriage equality in rural India. Much has changed, she says.
Updated on Jul 24, 2023 06:13 PM IST
India’s scholarly output rises, global rank improves to 3
India’s scholarly output increased to 149,213 scientific papers in 2020 from 60,555 in 2010 , the foundation’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2022 report highlighted, placing the country in the third position in the global league table.
Updated on Dec 19, 2022 11:51 PM IST
HT Correspondent, New Delhi