This week in World in brief: Lower science budget announced in India; Gene bank to be created in Tibet; Telescope ready to go in Chilean desert; International Space Station goes Canadian; Kazakhstan teams up with UK on space; Skills shortage in store for Australia, agency warns; Fund foundation with ‘sin taxes’, say researchers.
Lower science budget announced in India
Funding for research has been lowered slightly, once inflation has been taken into account, in India’s budget for 2013-14. The budget, released on 28 February, did not appear to back up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement in January that the country should double its R&D spending.
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