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<keyword id="664247" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="CNR-RAO">CNR Rao</keyword>, the eminent Indian scientist who was awarded the Bharat Ratna for his work in the field of chemistry and currently heads the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India, has said that 90% of the Indian universities and higher educational institutions have outdated curriculum. According to Rao, this is the reason why Indian institutes are not listed in the top institutes of the world. 
 "90 per cent of the universities in our country have outdated curriculum. We talk about increasing funds, increasing infrastructure but there is no improvement in the content we are teaching in our hi-tech classrooms," Rao was quoted saying during the <keyword id="3127703" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Visitors-Conference">Visitor's Conference</keyword> at the Rashtrapati Bhawan yesterday. 
 
"One of the major reasons behind why Indian institutions don't make it to the top 100 universities in the world. There are lot of Indian students abroad who want to study in our country and come back but there are no quality colleges to offer them the same kind of environment and education," he added. 
 
"Talent search in our country has always been marginal. We teach our students what Newton and Faraday did but there is no mechanism to look out for similar talent in interiors of the country," he said. 
 
Talkimg about the bureaucratic hassles in the education system, he said that, "You want to introduce a course, institute a fellowship, establish an exchange programme, utilise the already allocated funds... there are so many laws, too many bureaucratic rooms. I think that process should be simplified." 
 The conference, which started yestersay, has the Heads of 114 institutions, including President <keyword id="6359124" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Pranab-Mukherjee">Pranab Mukherjee</keyword>. The subjects that will be deliberated upon during the conference include creating inter-linkages of Industry-Academia, interfacing with ranking agencies, providing impetus to research and innovation in educational eco-system, establishing international networks and workforce sustainability, among others. 
 Nobel laureate <keyword id="377475" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Kailash-Satyarthi">Kailash Satyarthi</keyword> and renowned geneticist <keyword id="96510" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="MS-Swaminathan">MS Swaminathan</keyword> are also a part of the conference. 
 
Talking about the Right to Education, Satyarthi said, "Though the introduction of Right to Education (RTE) has contributed to a significant progress in the sector but lack of three things - inclusion, quality and equity, are still roadblocks in ensuring progress at the ground level." 
 
Swaminathan, known as 'Indian Father of Green Revolution', called for developing courses in "Sustainability Science" in all the institutions. 
 
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Indian universities need to improve, says Bharat Ratna CNR Rao

Infosys cofounder NR <keyword id="6355623" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narayana-Murthy">Narayana Murthy</keyword> shares the same sentiments as that of Bharat Ratna Professor CNR Rao and believes that the <keyword id="75850" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Indian-Institute-of-Science">Indian Institute of Science</keyword> is yet to meet higher expectations and that there is work to be done. 
 
While delivering a gathering during the convocation of the IISc, Murthy on Wednesday said that as compared to western universities, India had no earth-shaking invention and urged higher educational institutes to incentivise focused research. 
 "IISc is the leader in engineering and <keyword id="2952898" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="research-in-India">research in India</keyword>. Therefore, expectations are higher. IISc can do better even by Indian standards. We all want IISc to be one of the top institutions in the world and there is work to be done,” said Murthy. 
 
Murthy said that the scientific research had not received enough attention of prime ministers since Jawaharlal Nehru. “Nehru's exhortation to Indian researchers in the US to come back to India (in 1962) resulted in the green revolution, white revolution, advances in atomic energy and the space programme. We have to recreate the magic of the sixties," he said. 
 
Murthy called on academicians, politicians, and corporate leaders and urged them to pitch in to enable impactful work in the real world. 
 
Many researchers agreed with Murthy. 
 
Vijay Kumar Sutrakar, a DRDO scientist who won the gold medal for his PhD thesis in aerospace engineering, said, “IISc lacks instrumentation and testing facilities for advanced research. We have to synchronise our syllabus with next-generation aircraft,” said Sutrakar. 
 
Dr Sheik Rehana, assistant professor with IIIT Hyderabad and gold medalist in civil engineering, told ET: "We need to deal with real problems like drainage issues in our research to learn how to solve it in real life." 
 
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India has had no earth-shaking invention, claims Narayana Murthy

BANGALORE: Russian supercomputing company RSC group and the Russian Academy of Sciences have proposed collaboration with India to set up advanced supercomputing facilities that will rival China’s Tianhe-2, the world’s fastest supercomputer. 
 
“India has many skills for building supercomputers. It is very strong in software,” said Alexey Shmelev, co-founder and chief operations officer of RSC group and delegate to the Russian Academy of Sciences. “I am ready to share technology with India. I guess there would not be many players who are willing to do so.” 
 In a letter last month, <keyword id="2187361" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="40" keywordseo="Boris-Shabanov">Boris Shabanov</keyword> of the Russian Academy of Sciences has invited a delegation from the Indian Institute of Science and the <keyword id="58906" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Karnataka-government">Karnataka government</keyword> to explore the possibility of a supercomputing centre in Bangalore. 
 
CNR Rao, a Bharat Ratna awardee who heads the scientific advisory council to the prime minister, said it is difficult to assess a potential collaboration right away, but was of the view that “the Chinese are way ahead”. 
 Tianhe-2, developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, retained its position as the world’s number one system according to TOP500 project which ranks the most powerful computer systems in the world. It beat Titan, a US supercomputer which briefly held the world speed crown. India’s supercomputer Param Yuva-II is ranked at 83 while <keyword id="6358826" type="COUNTRY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Russia">Russia</keyword>’s Lomonosov supercomputer is ranked at 37. 
 
If the joint cooperation between Russia and India is found viable, it can result in a computing system as big as a basketball court that can perform approximately as many operations per second as several million personal computers. 
 In 2009, India had taken a huge leap in supercomputing with EKA which was then the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world and fastest in Asia. “But in the next few years, China took over and it has retained its position as the world’s number one system,” said Vipin Chaudhary, former chief executive of <keyword id="643605" type="COMPANY" weightage="40" keywordseo="Computational-Research-Laboratories">Computational Research Laboratories</keyword>, a subsidiary of <keyword id="46894" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Tata-Sons">Tata Sons</keyword> that built the EKA supercomputer.

Russia Offers To Develop Supercomputer With India To Counter Chinese Supremacy

<ul><li>India accounts for only 0.25% of the 4,000 highly-cited scientists across the globe, according to <keyword id="4393714" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="clarivate-analytics">Clarivate Analytics</keyword>. </li><li>The number has doubled since 2017 but that’s only because the company added an additional category to include ‘cross field’ researchers. </li><li>India’s neighboring country, <keyword id="1334" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="China">China</keyword>, stands at the third position with nearly 482 scientists.</li></ul>With only 10 Indian scientists featuring in the list of 4,000 highly-cited researchers across the globe, the country lags far behind China in new contributions towards science and innovation,<a href="https://clarivate.com/blog/news/global-highly-cited-researchers-2018-list-reveals-influential-scientific-researchers-and-their-institutions/"> said a recent report by</a> Clarivate Analytics — a company that names people with multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and year. Interestingly, most of the science experts listed do not come from highly ranked institutes in India that are always creating buzz for their scientific innovation. However, a professor from each IIT-Kanpur, IIT Madras, JNU, and NIT-Bhopal are on the global list. Meanwhile, China is among the top three countries with 482 science experts. India couldn’t even make it up to the top 10 countries. <keyword id="23050" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sweden">Sweden</keyword> (53%), Austria (53%), Singapore (47%), Denmark (47%), China (43%) and South Korea (42%) are among the nations that have 40% of their Highly Cited Researchers selected in the cross-field category. India and China used to be on the same page in terms of contribution about 15 years ago but now China accounts for nearly 16% This could be considered a victory for India since the number of scientists on the list has doubled since 2017. But Dinesh Mohan, one of the scientists on the list, says that’s only because the report includes an additional category of ‘cross field’ researchers. The list highlights the need to improve the research ecosystem in India and deal with <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06048-2">problems </a>like predatory journals. According to experts, Indian academicians lack focus on quality research. Ashok Pandey, a researcher featured on the list, claims that poor representation in science is a matter of national concern and need to be addressed by lawmakers, government and other respective stakeholders. Analysts add that India has a negligible representation in the world’s highly cited researchers primarily because the nature of research is theoretical. Here are the Indian figures featured on the list - Alok Mittal <ul><li>Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology </li><li>Specialisation: Environmental Science, Water Treatment and Chemistry. </li></ul>Ashok Pandey <ul><li>Council of Scientific &amp; Industrial Research (CSIR)</li><li>Specialisation: Microbial and Enzyme Technology, Food and Fermentation Technology Industrial Biotechnology </li></ul>Rajeev Varshney <ul><li>International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics</li><li>Specialisation: Applied Genomics, Molecular breeding, Crop Biotechnology. </li></ul>Jyoti Mittal <ul><li>Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology </li><li>Specialisation: Environmental Science, Water Treatment and Surface Chemistry. </li></ul>Dinesh Mohan <ul><li>Jawaharlal Nehru University</li><li>Specialisation: Water and wastewater monitoring, biofuels products. </li></ul><keyword id="3690833" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="avinash-kumar-agarwal">Avinash Kumar Agarwal</keyword> <ul><li>IIT-Kanpur</li><li>Specialisation: bio butanol, biodiesel development, Engine combustion investigation.</li></ul>Rajnish Kumar <ul><li>IIT-Madras</li><li>Specialisation: Carbon dioxide capture, methane and hydrogen storage, and Gas hydrates. </li></ul>Sanjeeb Sahbo <ul><li>Institute of Life Sciences,</li><li>Specialisation: Use of nanotechnology in cancer drug delivery, especially cancer cure</li></ul>CNR Rao: Is <keyword id="100256" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bharat-Ratna">Bharat Ratna</keyword> <ul><li>Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research</li><li>Specialisation: Structural Chemistry, solid state, and material chemistry</li></ul>Sakthivel Rathinaswamy <ul><li>Bharathiar University</li><li>Specialisation: Applied Mathematics (control theory)</li></ul>See more- <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/latest/culture-of-fear-india-fifth-deadliest-country-for-journalists/articleshow/67178072.cms">Culture of fear — India fifth ‘deadliest’ country for journalists</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/miners-trapped-in-meghalaya-for-over-two-weeks/articleshow/67257937.cms">15 miners have been trapped in a rat hole mine for two weeks — Indian government at a loss for solutions</a>

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