A group photograph during the 106th session of the Indian Science Congress in Jalandhar on Thursday. The Indian Science Congress is also counting the cost of such claims, which have become a fixture at the event over the past few years. Officials at the Indian Science Congress pledged on Sunday to curb the spouting of baseless claims from their platform. Andhra University vice-chancellor G. Nageswara Rao averred at the Science Congress in Jalandhar on Friday that the Kauravas of the Mahabharat were test-tube babies. “It is unfortunate -– the Science Congress is being systematically misused to propagate personal beliefs,” Banerjee, the IISER professor, said.

Source: The Telegraph January 06, 2019 22:18 UTC