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Once upon a time, humans woke up, stretched, yawned, and greeted the sun. Now, they wake up, stretch, and immediately grab their phones to check WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter (or X, if you want to sound fancy). The sun can wait, notifications can’t…. Social media has pulled off something remarkable — it has transformed ordinary … Read more

B.R. Gavai | Photo Credit: Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar In March, Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, who has been recommended for appointment as the 52nd Chief Justice of India, travelled to Manipur with a team of Supreme Court judges to personally interact with the victims of the prolonged ethnic conflict. While the judges spent hours at … Read more

Sadanand Date | Photo Credit: Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar He is “one of the brightest gems” in the galaxy of IPS officers, retired supercop J.F. Ribeiro had said about Sadanand Date, the current chief of the National Investigation Agency (NIA). A decorated IPS officer and survivor of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Mr. Date, who keeps … Read more

By the time Nvidia disclosed in a regulatory filing that the U.S. government had imposed new licensing requirements on the sale of H20 chips to China, including Hong Kong and Macau, the chipmaker was already reeling. The decision, delivered by the Trump administration, would abruptly end shipments of its China-focused AI chips and saddle the … Read more

Two independent clinical trials demonstrate the safety of stem cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease. The papers, published in Nature, investigate the use of cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells and human embryonic stem cells, respectively. Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterised by the progressive loss of neurons that produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter. Cell therapy, specifically replenishing dopamine-producing neurons (dopaminergic) in the … Read more

CoQ9 is rich in wheat, rice, oats, barley, corn, rye, and millet. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Enzymes are proteins that catalyse reactions in a cell, making metabolism efficient. For efficient functioning, many enzymes require some molecules as cofactors. These helper molecules are called coenzymes. Coenzymes are naturally occurring organic molecules that bind to and … Read more

For the first time in Finland, researchers have isolated a giant virus — 200 nanometres in diameter, about twice the size of influenza or coronavirus —  which was named Jyvaskylavirus. The discovery shows that giant viruses are more common in northern regions than researchers have thought. It also illustrates that there are still many structures whose origins and functions … Read more

All three cats that tested positive for H5N1 clade 2.3.2.1a died one-three days after sampling | Photo Credit: REUTERS A two-year-old girl from Narasaraopeta in Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh, who was infected with H5N1 died on March 16, 2025; she was admitted to AIIMS-Mangalagiri on March 4. ICMR’s Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL) identified … Read more

The Maharashtra school education department has now made Hindi a mandatory third language in both Marathi and English-medium schools in classes 1 to 5 under the new curriculum framework for School Education, aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. While the government says this move is meant to kick-start the vision of a multilingual … Read more

Alodin J. Kalappurackal, hails from Murikkasserry in the Idukki district of Kerala. Now the Chairman of the Students Federation of India (SFI) at the CMS College, he follows the Congress-leaning background of his family. Before becoming a staunch SFI activist, however, he was a churgoer and regularly attended Sunday school classes, even though he was … Read more