- Prime Minister inaugurated 105th session of Indian Science Congress (ISC) at Manipur Central University in Imphal.
- The theme of 5-day ISC is “Reaching the Unreached Through Science & Technology”.
- The ISC 2018 was organised by the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), a premier scientific organisation of India.
- This is 2nd time the Science Congress is being held in the north east. Earlier it was held at Shillong (Meghalaya) in 2009.
Indian Science Congress Association
- ISCA was started in the year 1914 at its headquarters in Kolkata.
- It organises Indian Science Congress annually in the first week of January.
- The first meeting of the ISCC was held in January 1914 in the Asiatic Society, Kolkata.