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New chief for astrophysics institute DHNS, Bengaluru, Oct 16 2019, 00:45am ISTupdated: Oct 16 2019, 02:59am IST Annapurni, S.   Noted scientist Prof Annapurni Subramaniam on Tuesday took over as the Director of the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), a premier national research institute in astrophysics. The autonomous research institute under the administrative control…

Two destructive earthquakes within a week of each other, the first with a 7.5 magnitude on the Iran-Pakistan border, on April 16, and the second measuring 5.6 in eastern Afghanistan last Wednesday, were unsettlingly felt over much of north India, but were geologically unconnected to India’s seismic anatomy. However, the massive tectonic processes intrinsic to…

Dear Colleagues,     Emerald Publishing has announced complete access to all Emerald eJournals for a month (between November 1 and 30, 2013). This complete access will enable you, to download / read articles that are not part of our current subscription to Emerald eJournals.   The following are the link to access the content, http://www.emeraldinsight.com/  …

Dear Colleagues, Mrs.Lalitha Chandrasekhar wife of Prof.S.Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate passed away this week. Read More: Librarian

Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that’s morphed into a posthumous cause celebre. Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide in New York on Jan. 11 as a trial loomed involving charges that he had allegedly illegally…

Prof. Vinod Krishan (formerly Senior Professor, IIA) has written a book on Plasmas: The First State of Matter and Cambridge University Press has published the book recently.   Read more