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Friday, July 25, 2025
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Topic: Albert Einstein

Experiments with untruth in 2024 & Lights! Camera! Meditation!

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Einstein was a fraud, West stole calculus from India’ – mathematician’s claims slammed by peers

C.K. Raju claims 'Church invented Euclid' & 'ganita is practical while mathematics is religious'. Peers say reverting to 'small subset of ideas will be a great step backward'.

3 salty lakes under Mars’ surface raises possibility of life on the red planet

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

Einstein’s contempt for peer review wasn’t misplaced, it is something of a lottery

The process of peer review has become inconsistent and subjective to the degree that it is unnervingly close to what you'd expect from purely random selection.

Gandhi never celebrated his birthdays, but made an exception on his 75th. For Kasturba

When a reporter asked Gandhi for his message on the ‘auspicious day’, he declined saying, ‘I am not accustomed to giving messages on such occasions.’

What unfolded when Gandhi met a playwright, a fascist, a comic legend, a Nobel laureate

Mahatma Gandhi's visit to Europe in 1931 proved historic in many ways. He got to meet several iconic personalities whom he wouldn't have otherwise met willingly.

Piyush Goyal, it was Isaac Newton & not Albert Einstein who discovered gravity

Union minister Piyush Goyal has defied our accuracy meter on multiple counts with bizarre ‘gravity’ claim.

2 possible gravitational waves spotted, scientists suspect black hole mergers caused both

Gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space and time caused by cosmic events — were first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916.

A glimpse of starlight in 1919 gave hope for science

The 1919 eclipse generated worldwide headlines and served as a symbol of reconciliation – a demonstration of science transcending nationalism.

Einstein predicted blackholes in the early 1900s but their weirdness stopped him

The recent close-up images of a black hole fall straight from Einstein’s 1915 theory of general relativity.

On Camera

India uses BRICS to push reforms—not to challenge the US

India has been pleading for long to bring reforms in institutions like the United Nations, IMF, and World Bank, which it believes are West-dominated and don’t reflect current global realities.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China

The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.