
Walking the path to success in law and science
The Hindu
How did a mechanical engineering student from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) who played cricket with Ravi Shastri in college become the Director of the National Centre for Biologica
How did a mechanical engineering student from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) who played cricket with Ravi Shastri in college become the Director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru? And why did a young girl from Varanasi who topped her board exams in school eschew the obvious choice of medicine as a career?
In a session, ‘Careers in Science’, on the third and final day of the ‘The Hindu Career Counselling Digital Conclave’ on Sunday, Smith Jain, associate director (academia and government relations-India) at Cactus Communications, and Satyajit Mayor of NCB,S drew from their personal experiences to talk about opportunities in science beyond medicine and engineering.

BJP State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that the electoral battle in Nilambur is between the BJP candidate and the INDIA alliance. “There is only one candidate who speaks of development. That is BJP’s Mohan George,” he said. Describing the candidates of the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Left Democratic Front (LDF), the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and P.V. Anvar as part of the INDIA alliance, Mr. Chandrasekhar said that the people of Nilambur had only two options: either to vote for Narendra Modi politics or INDIA alliance politics.