NEW DELHI // Speakers at a prestigious science conference in Mumbai have said that a Hindu sage invented interplanetary spacecraft 7,000 years ago, that a herbal paste applied to a person’s feet can help locate underground water and that a bacteria found in cows can turn any material into gold....
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Indian prime minister Narendra Modi speaks at the start of the 102nd Indian Science Congress (ISC) in Mumbai on January 3. AFP Photo