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Ras Al Khaimah Ruler Grants $3.25 Million to Bangalore Research Centre

  •   Sat, Feb 04 2012 01:15:52 AM

Bangalore, Feb 3 (IANS) : Ras Al Khaimah ruler Sheikh Saud in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) granted $3.25 million (Rs.16 crore) to the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) here for buying equipment and funding research projects.

"The six-year grant will be used to buy equipment and chemicals and fund research of junior as well as senior scientists," the centre said in a statement here Friday.

In recognition of the grant, a wing of the new building set up for materials and chemistry research will be named after the ruler as 'Sheikh Saqr Laboratory', which will be part of the international centre for material science.

Centre's director and Prime Minister's Scientific Advisory Council chairman C.N.R. Rao will head the lab.

Set up by the department of science and technology in 1989 to mark the centenary of Jawaharlal Nehru, the multi-disciplinary institute promotes world-class scientific research and training at the frontiers of science and engineering.

As a deemed university, the centre grants Master's and Ph.D degrees to about 150 graduate students every year.
  

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  • JOJI ANTONY, RAS AL KHAIMAH

    Thu, Aug 16 2012

    This shows how generous His Royal Highness is. His vision and and abilities will take our Emirate also to new heights in days to come. All the very best for His Royal Highness and royal family.

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  • Joseph Rego, Kinnigoli/Ras al khaimah

    Sun, Feb 05 2012

    Great news. Thanks to His Highness Sh. Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Ruler of Ras al khaimah.We Indians greatful to him for his generous contribution. God bless him and royal family.

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  • Rolen Quadros, kundapura

    Sat, Feb 04 2012

    Dear all, With supporting excellence in science, major programs in college-level entrepreneurship, skills colleges, policy initiatives to accelerate economic growth in emerging economies and for your all information Department of Biotechnology, government of India is funding millions of rupees for life sciences research in India. Its not that government is not interested we need to be more innovative and compete with other in the world.
    Success in cutting-edge science requires us to be nimble and flexible. It allows research institutes put in place the best teams, including fellowships for group leaders, post-docs and students of any nationality to work in their campus, and for our students and postdocs to go elsewhere for collaborations. These fellowships will link researchers with their global collaborators working on the cell and molecular biology of cardiac and neural development, disease and regenerative medicine.
    It comes with the broad mandate to assist our scientific goals and with a requirement that we seek to achieve the highest standards of science. We hope that such philanthropy will inspire others to generously support science at our location and elsewhere in the country. Science is Global there is no discriminarion in science. We Indians should to proud to have prestigous research institutions like NCBS Bangalore, TIFR mumbai , IISc bangalore, JNCASR bangalore, ISRO, CCMB, IGIB, NII all are performing research with global standards with quality of research and scientific publications.

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  • haneef, puttur / dubai

    Sat, Feb 04 2012

    Great News. Hope the center will utilize this fund in right ways.

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  • Jaimini P.B., Manipal,Sharjah

    Sat, Feb 04 2012

    GREAT NEWS..This is a fitting reply to negative minded people..

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  • Ashok Fernandes, Mangalore/Kuwait

    Sat, Feb 04 2012

    Do we need this grant to fund and equip the research work of our Indian Scientists? Don't we have enough funds to build a building and equip ourselves? Are we so poor that a foreign hand is required for all this? The thing is, our Indian politicians as well as bureaucrats are busy with scams, hand in hand, fulfilling eachothers interests pocketing crores as party and personal funds. They have no time to look at our own self development and natural resources. Are we all still sleeping with our eyes open when someone else is taking credit for the researh and development works in India. People, please.... it is time to wake up.

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  • GERALD, MODANKAP

    Sat, Feb 04 2012

    WHAT A NOBLE GESTURE !!!!!!

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