Mind The Numbers
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Where are the women? A study of High Court judges in India offers a number of insights
First quantitative analysis of 1,800 High Court judges appointed through the collegium system over the past 25 years reveals their backgrounds.
Rukmini S, IndiaSpend.com
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Honeybees can tell the difference between odd and even numbers
A study shows the miniature brains of the insect are capable of parity categorisation.
Scarlett Howard, The Conversation, Adrian Dyer, The Conversation, Andrew Greentree, The Conversation & Jair Garcia, The Conversation
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Why the International Statistic of the Year is 332
That is the number of days it took for scientists to develop the coronavirus vaccine.
Liberty Vittert, The Conversation
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Memoir: A journalist remembers the 1960s and how the Naxal movement was portrayed in books and films
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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Congress moves Madras HC seeking Election Commission action against Modi for propagating hate speech
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‘What does it take / to let go?’: There’s a new anthology of English haikus written by Indian poets
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Manjummel Boys’ was a blockbuster
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Nicolas Bourbaki: One of the greatest mathematicians of 20th century never really existed
When an editor of the journal ‘Mathematical Reviews’ wrote that Bourbaki was a pseudonym, he was refuted by Bourbaki himself.
David Gunderman, The Conversation
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Vaccination rates among India’s rich have dropped, the national family health survey shows
Meanwhile, 55% of all Indians do not go to public hospitals to seek treatment.
Nayantara Narayanan
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Global TB report reveals that India has been massively underestimating the disease
The results of an unpublished government survey, now used by the WHO, show that India has almost twice the number of TB cases as previously reported.
Menaka Rao
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‘Hind’s Hall’: Rapper Macklemore releases poignant song in support of Palestine, US campus protests
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Met Gala 2024: From Alia Bhatt to Isha Ambani, what Indians in attendance wore
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Watch: South Korean band performs Rabindra Sangeet accompanied by traditional Korean instruments
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Watch: This man fused hip-hop with Bharatnatyam to dance to Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’
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Watch: Comedian hilariously mimics different types of announcements at railway stations
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What makes a mathematical genius?
You may have got what it takes to be a mathematical genius without even being aware of it.
David Pearson, The Conversation
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Four charts that show the urgency of India's burgeoning dementia problem
India has over four million dementia patients, and over the next 15 years this number is expected to more than double.
Nayantara Narayanan