No pension, no recognition — the plight of officer trainees injured during military training
Officer trainees disabled during training are given monthly ‘ex gratia’ of Rs 9,000 & disability award of Rs 16,200 for 100% disability, both lower than minimum defence pension of Rs 18,000. Read Smruti Despande’s report.
Fermi to Bhabha — scientists who shaped the atomic era, both in and out of ‘Oppenheimer’ frame
The biopic ‘Oppenheimer’ included some of the atomic-era’s greatest physicists in cameo roles, while others were entirely overlooked. A closer look at some of their accomplishments, reports Sandhya Ramesh.
Why medical college teachers without MBBS are protesting against NMC’s faculty norms
There are nearly 3,000 MSc & PhD holders across medical colleges who teach non-clinical subjects to MBBS students. Medical education regulator has reduced their allotted numbers, reports Sumi Sukanya Dutta.
Iron Age in India began over 4,000 years ago. Tamil Nadu’s Mayiladumparai revises research
Discoveries from Mayiladumparai and a few sites in Telangana urge us to reassess a long-running debate on the genesis and spread of iron throughout the subcontinent, writes Disha Ahluwalia.
Gujarati poet Krishnalal Shridharani’s thesis was ‘gospel’ for American civil rights activists
Shridharani ‘took the mysticism out of Gandhianism and instead provided a Gandhi of pragmatic action or realpolitik’, writes Urvish Kothari.
Forget 10 days of vipassana. It’s been 20 years, but I am still a work-in-progress
I didn’t realise much when I began my journey years ago. Today, I see myself as a young but ignorant learner, completely clueless about self-development, writes Deepa Nailwal.
Modi has exhumed Nehru’s Global South. Which fails the test of geography, geopolitics and economics
Global South is the idea that India, or its leader, could be the leader of the rest. Narendra Modi has emerged as its most prominent and powerful global brand ambassador, writes Shekhar Gupta in this week’s ‘National Interest’.