Long time, no science news. Luckily, the 106th Indian Science Congress took place yesterday at Jalandhar.

First off, vice chancellor of Andhra University, G Nageshwar Rao, said Mahabharata and Ramayana were the starting points for India’s research on stem cell research, test tube fertilisation and guided missiles. As reported by Scroll, Rao said: “We had hundreds of Kauravas from one mother because of stem cell research and test tube baby technology. It happened a few thousand years ago. This was science in this country…Mahabharat says, 100 eggs were fertilised and put into 100 earthen pots. Are they not test tube babies? Stem cell research in this country was present thousands of years ago.”

The Hindu reports: “Mr Rao said that as Darwin stated life started from water the first avatar of Lord Vishnu was also a fish (Matysa)”

Meanwhile, Outlook reports that Kanan Jegathala Krishnan, a “senior research scientist” said once common understandings of physics “changes”, gravitational waves will be renamed “Narendra Modi waves”, and that gravitational lensing effect will be called “Hashvardhan effect”. Outlook also reported Kanan as saying  modern physics “will be completely destroyed”, with a new genre of physics emerging from his observations.