The Times Of India is carrying what has now become a controversial story on the decline of science and research facilities in India.
* Between 1980 to 2000, the number of scientific papers from India, indexed in the Science Citation Index, fell from 14,987 to 12,127. China's grew from 924 to 22,061.
* A recent much accepted top 500 ranking of world universities features only three Indian universities - one in the 251 to 300 rank slot and the other two in the 451 to 500 slot.
* Among the 149 top countries in science and technology, India ranks 119 when it comes to number of citations per scientific paper.
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