ISW Desk

Rice is a staple food all over the world and India is the second largest producer and consumer of rice at global level. Production of rice in India is limited by several biotic and abiotic factors. Sheath blight disease caused by a…
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A team of Indian scientists has identified black pepper, the everyday kitchen spice, as a possible candidate for developing a drug against the Coronavirus. A computational study conducted by the researchers from the Department of Physics…
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There is a grave ecological concern in  the recent times due to the surge of human activity in extracting oils through offshore drilling resulting in spillage of oil either accidentally or due to negligence. Also, there are industrial…
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On 14, February 2003 when the first cloned variety of sheep, Dolly died there have been huge speculations about cloned varieties of animals. To take this challenge team of scientists from the Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes…
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The novel coronavirus pandemic is here to stay until we have a vaccine for it.  Some studies have shown that the virus is unaffected by hot or cold weather conditions. A recent study by University of Connecticut has revealed that the Ultra…
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A collaborative study from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, has now shown that the traditional practice of yoga has positive effects on the…
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The global population is continuing to rise at an unprecedented rate with the present estimate suggesting more than 9 billion people in 2050. With the growing needs of this ever-increasing population, industrialization has become…
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The agricultural sector plays a key role in the economy of India and twenty-five other East Asian developing countries across a distance of 18,000 km (from east to west) and 6,000 km (from south to north). The main influencing factor in…
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In a major development in the search for methods to improve the productivity of rice, a team of scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research’s Bengaluru-based National Centre for Biological Sciences has identified a protein that…
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A study on underwater sounds using a passive acoustic monitoring system during the winters has been able to probe sea ice melting in the Arctic and its contributing factors. The research was led by The National Institute of Ocean Technology…
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