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The mantis shrimp is a colourful, 10-cm-long resident of the ocean whose appearance belies its reputation as one of the most fearsome predators on the planet. These unassuming crustaceans use a hammer-shaped appendage called the dactyl club to strike their prey at a blistering 23 m/s (about 50-times faster than the blink of an eye), … Read more
Vital point: The Moore Market Complex (MMC) station, the nerve centre of suburban train operation on the western and northern routes, is teeming with thousands of commuters. Those alighting here run to board MTC buses or trudge along the Central square to get into suburban trains at the MRTS Park station or Metro Rail. | … Read more
Southern Railway is installing escalators at the three platforms in Avadi railway station. For N. Harish, a regular commuter at the railway station, everyday he has to take a train from Avadi station is a source of annoyance. Despite the presence of escalators in the railway station, not installing access routes from both sides of the railway … Read more
New Delhi, April 15: Sikkim has overwhelmingly voted for the abolition of the institution of Chogyal and for full statehood within the Indian Union. The voting took place in a referendum throughout the Himalayan State yesterday. Within minutes of the declaration of the result of referendum, the Chief Minister, Kazi Lhondup Dorji, conveyed it to … Read more
This news might not have aggressively grabbed the headlines when it was released, but the publication of the preliminary findings of the GenomeIndia report marks significant progress in possessing genetic information specific to the Indian population. A massive project that has been several years in the making, and much anticipated, the results are likely to … Read more
London, April 15: Two hundred boy-messengers of the Eastern Telegraph Company, London, have struck work on the ground that their employment is in the nature of a blind alley occupation and demand guarantees of promotion on increase to a maximum wage of 29s. 10d. per week by 8s. The strikers have refused to hand in … Read more
(This story is part of The Hindu on Books newsletter that comes to you with book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. Subscribe here.) Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The shortlist of the International Booker Prize 2025 was announced last week; Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp (And Other Stories), a collection of 12 short … Read more
One-stop centre: The Child Guidance Clinic at the Institute of Mental Health handles children with Specific Learning Disability and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and those with behavioural and psychological issues. | Photo Credit: M. VEDHAN At the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), a Child Guidance Clinic has been providing comprehensive services to children with neurodevelopmental … Read more
History, textbook revisions As someone who wrote the Central Board of Secondary Education Class XII Board examinations, with history and political science as my subjects, the deletion of select topics and chapters by the National Council of Educational Research and Training in the guise of a “rationalisation of content in the textbooks” is appalling. Under … Read more
The relationship between the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala and the Governor has been more or less a tranquil affair during the past decades with two rare exceptions. In the late 1980s, there was a face-off between the CPI(M) and the Governor during the two-year-long tenure of Ram Dulari Sinha, who was … Read more