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.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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..