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Published on Oct 30, 2025 07:54 am IST

A tale of Homi Bhabha, MF Husain and a trove of art at a science institute

Gallerist Mortimer Chattrejee delivered a lecture at TIFR on Monday. (Anshuman Poyrekar/ / Hindustan Times)

Published on Jun 03, 2025 09:12 am IST

A horticulturist bids adieu to the magnificent trees of TIFR

The campus has a gigantic Banyan tree, whose canopy spreads out over 6,000 square feet. (Raju Shinde/HT Photo)

Published on May 23, 2025 09:24 am IST

A horticulturist bids adieu to the magnificent trees of TIFR

The campus has a a gigantic Banyan tree whose canopy spreads out over 6,000 square feet. (Raju Shinde/HT Photo)

Published on May 23, 2025 07:32 am IST

Narlikar’s life in science: A scientist for people

Narlikar could have continued to work in prestigious positions abroad, but chose to return to India and joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1972 (@ONGC_)

opinion

Updated on May 20, 2025 08:20 pm IST

Science academia loses a visionary physicist and an educationist

Mumbai...25th June 2011... Professor Hemachandra Pradhan, Centre Director, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mankhurd, Mumbai (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Dec 29, 2024 07:24 am IST

Mind craft: Brain researcher Shubha Tole discusses embryos, dreams and dance

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‘The brain is like a magnificent building that constructs itself from the ground up, and somehow ends up with everything — stairs, windows, fire exits — in the right place,’ Tole says. (Photo: Gayatri Narayanan)

art culture

Updated on Nov 30, 2024 05:28 pm IST

TIFR neuroscientist first from developing world to head global neuroscience body

Updated on Oct 16, 2024 09:51 am IST

Vigyan Yuva awardee Vivek Polshettiwar: From carbon dioxide to fuel using gold

Vivek Polshettiwar.

Published on Aug 23, 2024 03:20 pm IST

IIT-B, TIFR profs bag awards for their work in biosciences, nanocatalysis

Updated on Aug 08, 2024 07:10 am IST

Indian astronomers discover 34 new Giant Radio Sources using GMRT

The GMRT is located near Khodad village, approximately 90 km north of Pune. It was built and is being operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) Pune of the TIFR. (HT FILE PHOTO)

Updated on Aug 02, 2024 07:28 am IST

Indian astronomers reveal rare type of millisecond pulsar

Spider pulsar (at the centre) destroying its companion. (SOURCED)

Updated on Jul 19, 2024 05:32 am IST

How to bridge India’s gender gap in STEM

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While young boys, too, face societal expectations — that they must be breadwinners — they are not shackled with the relentless advice that limits girls from having ambitions. (Mint Archive)

opinion

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 05:53 pm IST

Radio astronomer Prof Govind Swarup dies at 91

Prof Govind Swarup

Updated on Sept 08, 2020 05:27 pm IST

TIFR develops country’s first low-cost mask testing equipment

The low-cost testing equipment developed by TIFR to assess the efficacy of masks.

Updated on May 12, 2020 03:45 pm IST

Dahisar children visit orphanage

The students of St Mary’s High School, Dahisar (East) at the event.

Published on Aug 30, 2019 01:13 am IST

Mumbaiwale: What happens when scientists take a Mumbai train?

Mumbai locals have something unique: Their Auxiliary Warning System, a network of sensors and magnets on the tracks and in the trains, automatically apply brakes and stop trains even if one somehow passes a red signal.

Updated on Jul 20, 2019 07:40 am IST

Sudeshna Sinha is the woman who brought order in computing from chaos

Sudheshna Sinha is a professor at the department of physical sciences at the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, Mohali, since 2009.

others

Updated on May 30, 2019 05:10 pm IST

Longevity protein, brain chemical combo may help treat Alzheimer’s, autism

(From left) Vidita Vaidya, TIFR, Ashok Vaidya, Kasturba Health Society, Sashaina Fanibunda, TIFR and KHS and Ullas Kolthur-Seetharam, TIFR

Published on May 15, 2019 01:19 am IST

TIFR gives half salary to staff citing fund crunch, pays remaining amount after news goes viral

TIFR is a national centre of the Government of India under the umbrella of the Department of Atomic Energy, and a deemed university since 2002, awarding degrees for master’s and doctoral programmes.

Published on Mar 07, 2019 10:16 pm IST

33 honoured with India’s most-coveted science prize

Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave away the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize — India’s most coveted science and technology award — to 33 winners of past three years on the occasion of National Science Day in Delhi on Thursday.

Published on Feb 28, 2019 06:30 am IST

Campus connect: Radio astronomy winter school at Pune gives experimental learning experience to 30 students

Students of winter school learning about the four metre radio telescope at National Centre for Radio Astrophysics.

Updated on Dec 21, 2018 04:29 pm IST

Alumni connect: As COEP club activity we used to have night sky party, says Prakash Gaikwad

In future, Gaikwad says he would like to come back to India and establish a numerical simulation group to plan the scientific goals and address the problems in Astrophysics through observations.

Updated on Dec 07, 2018 04:05 pm IST

Twitter to talks, MMRC goes the extra mile to clear air on Metro-3

The MMRC runs a series on Twitter called ‘Know Your Station,’ to provide information on the 27 stations on the Metro-3 route.

Updated on Nov 04, 2018 10:28 am IST

Isro-Nasa project finds black hole that spins near max possible rate

It was the indigenously built SXT and Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) instruments on-board the Astrosat that first observed the black hole in a favourable state so as to be able to interpret the X-ray at the end of 2016.