Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), is a national Research & Development organisation in India. It is funded mainly by the Science Ministry of India.

The R & D activities of CSIR covers various fields such as aerospace engineering, ocean sciences, molecular biology, metallurgy, chemicals, mining, food, petroleum, leather, and environment. The current Director General of CSIR is Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar. CSIR celebrates its Foundation Day on 26th September. Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft and related topics. ... Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. ... Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and of materials engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements and their mixtures, which are called alloys. ... A chemical substance is any material substance used in or obtained by a process in chemistry: A chemical compound is a substance consisting of two or more chemical elements that are chemically combined in fixed proportions. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine This article is about mineral extraction. ... (Redirected from 26th September) September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 96 days remaining. ...

CSIR Achievements

• Achieved the first breakthrough of flowering of Bamboo within weeks as against twenty years in nature.
• First to analyze genetic diversity of the indigenous tribes of Andaman and to establish their origin out of Africa 60,000 years ago.
• Developed the first transgenic Drosophila model for drug screening for Human Cancer.
• First to introduce DNA fingerprinting in India.
• Helped India to be the first Pioneer Investor under the UN law of Sea Treaty.
• Invented the first ever only once a wekk non-steroidal family planning pill in the world by the name of Saheli.
• Designed India's first ever parallel processing computer Flosolver.
• Partnered more than 50,000 companies with turnover ranging from Rs 5 lakhs to Rs 500,000 crores.
• Rejuvenated India's one hundred year old refinery at Digboi using the most modern molecular distillation technology.
• Provided the critical technology for the NMP Lube Extraction Plant of capacity of 2,50,000 tonnes per year.
• Development of a versatile portable PC-based software 'Bio-Suite' for bioinformatics.
• Design of 14 seater plane 'SARAS'.
• Established first ever in the world 'Traditional Knowledge Digital Library' accessible in 8 international languages.
• Remained in Top 3 in the list of PCT patent applications amongst all developing countries.
• Topped list of USA patents holders.
• Successfully challenged the grant of patent in the USA for use of haldi(turmeric)for wound healing and neem as insecticide.

Diversity Around 91 genera and 1,000 species Subtribes Arthrostylidiinae Arundinariinae Bambusinae Chusqueinae Guaduinae Melocanninae Nastinae Racemobambodinae Shibataeinae See the full Taxonomy of the Bambuseae. ... Andaman could mean: Andaman Islands Andaman Sea The book The Andaman Islanders by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. ... A genetically modified organism is an organism whose genetic material has been deliberately altered. ... Type Species Musca funebris Fabricius, 1787 Species Many; see text. ... When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ... Genetic fingerprinting or DNA testing is a technique to distinguish between individuals of the same species using only samples of their DNA. Its invention by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester was announced in 1985. ... A steroid is a lipid characterized by a carbon skeleton with four fused rings. ... Digboi is an oil town in northern Assam (in North East India). ... Binomial name Curcuma longa Linnaeus Turmeric (Curcuma longa, also known as tumeric) is a spice commonly used in curries and other south Asian cooking. ... Binomial name Azadirachta indica A.Juss. ... An insecticide is a pesticide whose purpose is to kill or to prevent the multiplication of insects. ...

Laboratories under CSIR

1. CBRI - Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee
2. CBT - Centre for Biochemical Technology, Delhi
3. CCMB - Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
4. CDRI - Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
5. CECRI - Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi
6. CEERI - Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani
7. CFRI - Central Fuel Research Institute, Dhanbad
8. CFTRI - Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore
9. CGCRI - Central Glass & Ceramic research Institute, Calcutta
10. CIMAP - Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Lucknow
11. CLRI - Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai
12. CMERI - Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur
13. CMRI - Central Mining Research Institute, Dhanbad
14. CRRI - Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi
15. CSIO - Central Scientific Intruments Organisation, Chandigarh
16. CSMCRI - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar
17. IICB - Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta
18. IICT - Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad
19. IIP - Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun
20. INSDOC - Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre, New Delhi
21. ITRC - Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow
22. IHBT - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur
23. IMT - Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh
24. NAL - National Aerospace laboratories, Bangalore
25. C-MMACS - CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Bangalore
26. NBRI - National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow
27. NCL - National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
28. NEERI - National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur
29. NGRI - National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad
30. NIO - National Institute of Oceanography, Goa
31. NISCOM - National Institute of Science Communication, New Delhi
32. NISTADS - National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies, New Delhi
33. NML - National Mettalurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur
34. NPL - National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi
35. RRL,BHO- Regional Research Laboratory, Bhopal
36. RRL, BHU - Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneshwar
37. RRL, JM - Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu
38. RRL, JT - Regional Research Laboratory, Jorhat
39. RRL, TVM - Regional Research Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram
40. SERC, M - Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai

This article deals with the metropolis of Delhi. ... Hyderabad may refer to various places: Hyderabad, India, Hyderabad state, the pre-1956 Indian state Hyderabad, Pakistan, for the city in Sindh, Pakistan This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Lucknow (Devanagari: लखनऊ Lakhnau) is the capital city of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. ... The Humayuns Tomb, situated in New Delhi, has an architectural design similar to the Taj Mahal. ... This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ... Bangalore (Kannada: ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು; pronounced // in Kannada and // in English) is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. ... Pune (पुणे in Marathi), formerly known as Punavadi and Poona (पूना by British), is located in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. ... The Niō (仁王, lit. ... For other uses, see Goa (disambiguation). ... A city founded by the late Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata, Jamsehdpur (जमशेदपूर in Devanagari), India, then known as Sakchi was home to the first private Iron and Steel company of India. ... Bhopāl (भोपाल) is a city in central India. ... Bhubaneswarଭୂବନେଶ୍୊଒଍୅ଵର is the capital of the state of Orissa (ancient Kalinga). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Thiruvananthapuram (Malayalam: തിരുവനന്തപുരം), formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarter of Thiruvananthapuram District. ... Chennai (சென்னை in Tamil), formerly known as Madras, is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu and is Indias fourth largest metropolitan city. ...

External links

• http://www.csir.res.in