15th March 2013 New Delhi, India
Continuing our series of guest blogs from people we’ve worked with recently, here’s a blog from Arun Muthirulan, Accelerator India, about an exciting event in Bangalore a few weeks ago… Feb 5th 2013. Bangalore played host to RiffStream#, a very interesting “event”, focused on companies from UK and India operating in the medical devices, equipment […]
5th February 2013 New Delhi, India
A former SIN Team member, Rajesh Parishwad, left to work for the Royal Society of Chemistry a couple of years ago. But we don’t like to lose touch with old friends and with Rajesh this isn’t difficult to achieve: he still sits in our office in Bangalore! Anyway, we asked Rajesh to bring you some […]
25th January 2013 New Delhi, India
Last week was Health Week for the British Deputy High Commission in Bangalore, with four separate delegations in Bangalore, all with a health interest. First we had Anna Soubry MP, the UK Minister for Public Health. She was in India (visiting Delhi, Trivandrum, Bangalore and Chennai) to explore opportunities for increased collaboration on primary healthcare […]
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18th January 2013 New Delhi, India
Last week I visited the Indian Institute for Science where a distinguished delegation of academics from Imperial College London were holding a joint workshop organised by the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial and the Divecha Centre for Climate Change at IISc Bangalore. Aside from a fabulous lunch up in the trees of IISc’s […]
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16th October 2012 New Delhi, India
Today is Ada Lovelace day. If you’re wondering who Ada Lovelace is, she was a pioneering computer programmer and contemporary of (the potentially better known) Charles Babbage. As Suw Charman-Anderson and Helen Arney write on the Guardian’s science blogs, today is a chance to celebrate the “unsung heroines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)” and so […]
24th September 2012 New Delhi, India
In a week when the UK was confirmed as having four universities in the top six in the world, we had a high-powered delegation from the University of Cambridge (ranking top in the UK) in town, led by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz. The main event on 13th September was Science, Innovation and […]
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6th July 2012 New Delhi, India
As excitement built around this week’s announcement of the latest results from the Large Hadron Collider, I wondered whether we ought to be using this blog to mark the occasion in some way. With scientists asking people not to speculate too much about what the result might be, I was pretty sure we ought to wait for […]
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14th June 2012 New Delhi, India
It’s what everyone wants to know about! We have news of an exciting research professorship and updated UK policy on international collaborators in social sciences.
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9th May 2012 New Delhi, India
Where I visit Thiruvananthapuram, a city with an exciting portfolio of science & innovation, and discover that you can travel 6000 miles around the globe but still find a connection to your roots.
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1st May 2012 New Delhi, India
Ministers meet to agree the broad science and innovation agenda for the UK-India relationship and S&IN India invades the UK!
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