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Up in arms: The residents of 13 villages, including Ekanapuram, have been protesting against the land acquisition for the Parandur airport project for more than 950 days. Ekanapuram residents even boycotted the 2024 Lok Sabha election to draw attention to their opposition to the project, which they say will blight their livelihood. | Photo Credit: … Read more
A critical concern is that creating superintelligent AI could be a one-shot attempt with irreversible consequences. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Imagine constructing a robot so intelligent that it surpasses every human mind on earth. A concept lifted straight from the realms of science fiction? Perhaps. But what if this machine evolved beyond our understanding … Read more
Life is a mysterious experience and an enigmatic journey. For, it is a series of events that unfold with the efflux of time, beyond the control of human will; steeped in the labyrinth of uncertainty and imponderables, life seldom affords one the opportunity to grasp its breadth, and in this state of oblivion, the ship … Read more
By now, the discussion around Adolescence has died down, and our distracted world has moved on to other topics that enrage and outrage. But as a boy-mother, I just can’t get it out of my head. A criticism of the Netflix series was that the final episode should have been about the family of the … Read more
Representative image | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI The story so far: Sixteen years after David Coleman Headley (Daood Gilani) and Tahawwur Hussain Rana were arrested by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed an FIR and a charge-sheet against them, Rana has been extradited to India. His extradition marks … Read more
M. A. Baby | Photo Credit: Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar In a political landscape ruled by grandstanding and strategising, Mariam Alexander Baby’s election as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was as quiet as it was resolute. After remaining in the shadows for several years, he emerged as the right choice … Read more
Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images The story so far: The preliminary findings of the GenomeIndia project, which attempted to study whole genomes of 10,000 healthy and unrelated Indians from 83 population groups, were published in the journal Nature Genetics on April 8. After excluding two populations, the published findings are based on the … Read more
The U.S. and Iran have started talks about the latter’s controversial nuclear programme. After Donald Trump, in his first term, unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran had maintained that it would not hold direct talks with the U.S. There were multiple … Read more
The story so far: On April 8, the Supreme Court declared Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi’s prolonged refusal to give his assent to 10 Bills as illegal and erroneous in law. In a landmark verdict, Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan underscored the importance of cooperative federalism, amid growing concerns over the increasing politicisation of … Read more
Researchers have found that besides sharks, bees and platypus, even fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields and navigate toward the negative electric potential using a small set of sensory neurons in their head. Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara immersed a fruit fly larva in an electric field and they found … Read more