India’s GDP grows at 7.8% in Q3 FY2025-26: Top highlights from first data under new series

Spread the love       India GDP growth (AI image) India’s real GDP grew at a robust 7.8% in the third quarter of FY 2025-26 according to data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). This is the first GDP data that has been released by MoSPI under the new series which revises the base year for calculation purposes.India’s...

National Science Day| An astrophysicist’s journey from starlight to solving the solar neutrino puzzle

Spread the love      From childhood inspiration to working at the Institute for Advanced Study — once home to Albert Einstein — she reflects on curiosity, challenges, and uncovering the Sun’s deepest secrets. The Sun is right under our noses, so to speak, and when one thinks of astrophysics, one thinks of more distant celestial objects. What made you curious about the Sun?...

National Science Day | What do scientists do?

Spread the love      Everyone knows scientists are in the business of “discovering” things. But what exactly do they do? When I was growing up in a small village in Kerala, there were no scientists around to ask this question. Even now, my friends ask me this question, half joking, half curious. I often laugh it off and change the topic.  A...

Relief for ‘The Kerala Story 2’: HC pauses previous order halting film release for 2 weeks

Spread the love       <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-128846219,imgsize-39446,width-400,resizemode-4/supreme-court-ruling.jpg" alt="Relief for ‘The Kerala Story 2’: High court pauses single judge order halting film release for two weeks" title=" Representative image ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Representative image NEW DELHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday stayed for two weeks its single judge order that had put the release of the film ‘The Kerala Story 2 –...

Helping children aim for the stars | National Science Day

Spread the love      More often than not, in the larger Indian context, students learning science at school follow a formulaic manner of engaging with the subject. There is a strict syllabus, way of learning, way of grading that learning, and even an inquisition that’s tied to viewing science as merely an academic subject. Those of you sitting in schools right now...

Anthropic CEO tells Nikhil Kamath why he could not work in OpenAI

Spread the love       Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (Image source: Wikipedia) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said that differences over the vision and approach to artificial intelligence were the primary reasons he left OpenAI, the AI company he joined in 2016. Speaking at Nikhil Kamath’s podcast, Amodei said that after joining the company, he and a few other colleagues developed their...

Drones, border posts and TTP: 5 reasons why Pak is in ‘open war’ with Taliban

Spread the love       People watch as rubble is cleared after a Pakistani cross-border strike in Nangarhar of Afghanistan, Sunday (AP photo) On February 27, the Afghanistan-Pakistan border turned into a front line. In Kabul, witnesses described night skies interrupted by jets and blasts. A taxi driver, Tamim, told Reuters that he woke to the sound of an aircraft and then...

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