‘The government has defined hydrogen produced by electrolysers using electricity from solar and wind as green and has provided incentives’ | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The goal of achieving a net-zero economy can be realised only by massive electrification of end uses of energy. Besides their use in generating electricity, fossil fuels are used to … Read more
Justice Kurian Joseph. File. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Former Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph, who will head a high-level three-member committee appointed by the Tamil Nadu government to review the provisions of the Constitution and laws to suggest measures to strengthen State autonomy and federalism, said the panel will examine if Centre-State relations … Read more
Professionals with 15, 20, even 25 years of experience who’ve given their all to companies, stayed loyal, built teams, hit targets are suddenly finding themselves jobless, and invisible. | iStock/Getty Images We often hear about layoffs hitting freshers and early-career folks hard. But there’s a quieter storm raging in the mid-career space. Professionals with 15, … Read more
It’s a health metric that’s constantly spoken about, measured at every visit to a doctor’s office and, in India, increasingly a cause of concern, but how much do you really know about blood pressure? What exactly does it measure? What do the numbers indicate? And why is it so important to keep these numbers in … Read more
Commuters wait under the scorching for buses near the Egmore Railway Station on April 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: R. Ragu Residents across the city are struggling to cope with stifling afternoons and a surge in humidity that’s turning daily work into exhausting ordeals. Meteorologists noted that sea breeze, a source of relief from peaking … Read more
According to the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2021-22 report, more than 42,000 students registered for PhD programs in the sciences. Some 7,200 got their PhD degrees. The PhD is often the lifetime work of a researcher. Many drop out — some estimates put drop-out figures at as high as 40%. And some … Read more
Pulse polio drops being administered to a child at the Vijayawada Railway Station. File photograph | Photo Credit: RAO GN Over the past five decades, vaccinations have prevented more than 150 million deaths among humans from deadly infectious diseases. The once-dreaded infection small pox for instance, had been eradicated; other serious infectious diseases like polio … Read more
Daily Quiz | On Leonardo da Vinci ‘Salvator Mundi’, a work of Leonardo da Vinci which was sold at a Chistie’s auction for a world record $450m in 2017 to a private collector START THE QUIZ 1 / 8 | Under which Florentine master artist did Leonardo do his apprenticeship? 2 / 8 | What … Read more
A: To keep our torso stable and conserve energy, we swing our arms backwards and forwards while walking. When you swing, say, your right leg forward to take a step, you provide a rotational moment about the central vertical axis of your torso. By the principle of conservation of angular momentum, an opposite reactionary moment … Read more
With the country’s population continuing to age, there has been an exponential rise in the demand for geriatric care services. This demographic shift has been pushing healthcare systems to come up with ways to care for the rising ageing population. While the availability of geriatric care is steadily improving, health is not the only concern: … Read more