Going ballistic

Only three weeks ago, at the Indian National Science Congress, the prime minister underlined the need to free science from the constraints of officialdom, to respect and nurture scientists. Such sentiments hardly explain the bizarre order by which the government has punished former ISRO chief G. Madhavan Nair for his alleged (and still unknown) role in a now-scrapped deal between Antrix (ISRO’s commercial arm) and multimedia company Devas, over the allocation of S-band spectrum without competitive bidding.

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