Islamic clerics push back against human milk banks as Shari’a proscribes marriages between so-called milk siblings. But several Islamic countries, including Iran, operate them.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
Terrible twist for Pakistan. Having travelled to a ‘Gaushala’ near Nagpur, I worry also for India. While it is far from comparable, the elevation of cows to the position of god and the insistence that their urine cures cancer without feeling the need of validating such claims through peer review, blind testing and other scientific methods, many Indians seem to have tacitly accept the primacy of culture over science. Maybe the same can be said about homeopathy. What tools do civil societies have to counter such fantastic claims? Invoking reason will only alienate them as elites from the masses. Or worse, make them subjects of violence..
Terrible twist for Pakistan. Having travelled to a ‘Gaushala’ near Nagpur, I worry also for India. While it is far from comparable, the elevation of cows to the position of god and the insistence that their urine cures cancer without feeling the need of validating such claims through peer review, blind testing and other scientific methods, many Indians seem to have tacitly accept the primacy of culture over science. Maybe the same can be said about homeopathy. What tools do civil societies have to counter such fantastic claims? Invoking reason will only alienate them as elites from the masses. Or worse, make them subjects of violence..