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Innovations galore: The Wing-in-Ground craft would travel four meters above the sea surface. It aims to cut travel time and fare. For 1,000 km, the cost would come to ₹600, says the company that displayed the craft at IInvenTiv2025. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM The third edition of IInvenTiv2025, held at the Indian Institute … Read more
Memorable knock: Dean Jones scored a splendid 210, despite the heat and humidity that forced him to throw up beside the pitch in the first test of the 1986 series. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives The Ashes and matches featuring India and Pakistan are often deemed the highest points in cricketing rivalry. But over … Read more
Dr. Ajay Sood, prior to being appointed as India’s third Principal Scientific Advisor in 2022, was one of India’s foremost physicists at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He explains to The Hindu where India is positioned in the domains of artificial intelligence and quantum computers and why the world is on the cusp of … Read more
Lotus stem, nadru in the local language, is an exquisite aquatic vegetable found in the Kashmir Valley. The Anchar Lake, which is connected to the Dal Lake through a channel and located on the outskirts of Srinagar, is one of the primary sources of this vegetable, which has found a pride of place on menus … Read more
Hantavirus has no specific cure, but early medical care can improve survival rates. Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Reuters According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hantaviruses are a family of viruses that can cause severe, potentially fatal illnesses. These viruses lead to life-threatening diseases, including hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), … Read more
Indian films often depict love at first sight, reducing women to mere objects of attraction. | Photo Credit: SREEJITH R. KUMAR Indian cinema has long shaped cultural norms, inspiring dreams but also reinforcing harmful stereotypes. One of the most damaging narratives is the portrayal of women as possessions to be “won” in the name of … Read more
Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Large Language Model Technology | Photo Credit: Getty Images The story so far: On March 6, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s IndiaAI Mission launched AI Kosha, a national dataset platform that will gather non-personal data from various ministries and departments in order to develop Artificial Intelligence models and tools. … Read more
Plataniste or Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangética), Karnaphuli river, Bangladesh | Photo Credit: The Hindu The story so far: The first ever census of Gangetic dolphins, the only riverine dolphins in India, which began four years ago, has found 6,327 of the species in the river Ganga and its tributaries. What did the census survey … Read more
In one of his first acts in his second term as president of the United States, Donald Trump fired several hundred employees of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The move triggered a lot of discussion in the climate community and beyond about how it will hurt critical weather and climate services. The … Read more
