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With around 2 million seafarers worldwide accounting for approximately 80% of international trade transport, opportunities abound for those willing to embrace the unique lifestyle offered by this profession. | iStock/ Getty Images The merchant navy continues to attract individuals who are drawn to life at sea, offering hands-on work, lucrative salaries, and promising long-term career … Read more
A fascinating spectacle is happening in the bustling arena of Indian higher education. Universities swirl to the clipped pulse of global rankings, with each step planned to impress the austere arbiters of one or the other global ranking agencies. While there’s nothing to hold against such rankers or their ambitions, some pertinent questions arise on … Read more
A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster enjoys trivia and music, and is working on a rock ballad called ‘Coffee is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’. @bertyashley Quiz: Easy like Sunday morning – Names in culture! The library of Alexandria in Egypt is a vast space designed to accommodate 2,000 readers. START THE QUIZ … Read more
Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar at an engineering college in Vijayawada in March. He says, “Coming from a small village and my father, who had a monthly salary of ₹70 as a school teacher, I have lived through the challenges that countless students from rural backgrounds and weaker sections face.” | Photo credit: G N Rao / The Hindu The … Read more
Mountains of muck, those stinky black spots of mixed garbage, are rising across the city again. But even as the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) claims to tackle them with a steep 36% garbage tax, a workable way out remains largely ignored: Wet waste composting. Localised ward-level composting with a multi-stakeholder approach could potentially solve … Read more
Often a lot of ignorance, and not a little distrust, marks the socio-political discourse between north and south India. Be it the history books which give expansive space to north Indian rulers, from the Mauryas and the Guptas to the Sultanate and the Mughals, or the latest delimitation exercise plans, the dice is loaded in … Read more
Survey reveals that four in 10 police personnel believe that reporting of custodial torture should be mandatory In recent years, concerns over police brutality and custodial torture have intensified, fuelling debates about justice, accountability, and human rights. The findings from a recent study on the ‘Status of Policing in India Report’ conducted by Lokniti-Centre for … Read more
In the ongoing debate on delimitation, a conflict between a principle of democracy and one of federalism has become apparent. ‘One person, one vote, one value’ is a principle of India’s electoral system. What this should mean in practice, at a minimum, is that all Lok Sabha constituencies should have roughly the same number of … Read more
Currently, an individual cannot transact more than ₹1 lakh through UPI. Though this applies to both P2P and P2M transactions though the latter is endowed with certain exceptions. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The story so far: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday, permitted banks and other relevant stakeholders to increase the upper … Read more
In Tamil Nadu, amid the debates about the three-language policy, Union Home Minister Amit Shah urged the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M.K. Stalin, to consider imparting medical and engineering education in Tamil on March 7, 2025. This call for imparting medical education in regional language, however, isn’t new nor peculiar to Tamil Nadu. In … Read more