Author: Science India Bureau

The innovation aims to address delayed testing and to help mitigate the impact of the ongoing second wave by giving quick results at home. Since the rise of COVID-19 cases in April-May, India has been testing samples in the range of 18-19 lakhs a day. The numbers, however, indicate that testing in the country is not being done at full capacity because we have a capacity of conducting 33 lakh tests a day. This implies that around 45 per cent of the country’s testing capacity is not being utilised. Many complain that getting tested for COVID-19 by a lab is…

If there is one common synonym for ‘excellence’ and ‘success’ for the teeming millions of India’s middle class, then it is the acronym IIT— Indian Institute of Technology. As soon as the child is born, parents start nurturing an IIT dream, even before the child has become aware of an entity called ‘life’, and regardless of what that child may want to study upon growing up. In India, IIT is a dream, passport to a good life in the developed West—especially the US, the surest way to climb the social ladder, a million-dollar coaching industry, and of course, the best…