Vivahkumari Mandal Apoorva Khare is an associate professor of mathematics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He is one of the winners of the recently announced 2022 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes (now remodelled as the Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award). He spoke to Mohan R., a mathematician at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, for The Hindu. The … Read more
Gupta won Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences in 2019, Nari Shakti Award in 2021 and DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Award in 2021. Photo credit: Infosys Science Foundation On the way to a conference dinner in Bengaluru in 2014, Neena Gupta, a postdoctoral student, was discussing a fundamental problem in algebraic geometry with a field expert, … Read more
The leaders of the Andhra Pradesh Teachers Federation (APTF) have demanded that Class 10 students attending special classes on Saturday and Sunday be provided with mid-day meals and transport facilities for their academic preparation for the upcoming board exams. In a statement, the federation’s state president G Hriday Raju and general secretary Y Chiranjeevi on … Read more
A dispute between neighbors in an Ajmera Heights apartment building in Kalyan, Maharashtra turned into a story of communal conflict between Maharashtrians and non-Marathi speaking residents of the state. This controversy gained enough traction to even be mentioned in the state assembly meeting. Six persons, including Akhilesh Shukla and his wife, were produced before the … Read more
Chief Secretary Shalini Rajneesh unfurling the Golden Chariot Flag by Railways at Yashwantapura Railway Station. | Photo credit: Handout e-mail Karnataka’s luxury train, the Golden Rath, was relaunched on Saturday, December 21 at the Yesvantpur railway station. Karnataka Tourism Minister HK Patil flagged off the train. Originally launched on January 23, 2008 by then-President Pratibha … Read more
On the evening of December 22, 1964, 14-year-old Purushothaman was playing with his friend Muniyasamy at his home in the railway quarter of Dhanushkodi. When he asked his friend to stay the night, a worried Muniyasamy refused, replying that he had to go to his home at the edge of town to take care of … Read more
Legislative Council Chairman Basavaraj Horatti Photo Credit: File photo Karnataka Legislative Council Speaker Basavaraj Horatti appeared to have set a precedent by allowing the police to register a case and arrest BJP MLC CT Ravi for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Women and Child Development Minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar, when the House adjourned due to heat. … Read more
Muhammad Yunus, Chief Counsel, Bangladesh. file Photo credit: Reuters India’s “strong protest” in response to a now-deleted Facebook post with an enlarged map of Bangladesh that included neighboring Indian territories has drawn the attention of student-advisors to Bangladesh’s interim government. The Facebook post that drew the MEA’s response appeared on the page of Mahfuz Alam, … Read more
The former division cyber crime police busted online fraudsters and arrested four people, including a branch manager of a private bank in Rajkot, Gujarat, for accessing the website of a payment gateway company and withdrawing Rs 12.5 crore within two days. CRED, having their corporate nodal account at AXIS Bank Indiranagar branch in Bengaluru, filed … Read more
A set of decisions taken at the 55th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting on Saturday is expected to address Kerala’s grievances about the Integrated GST (IGST), Finance Minister KN Balagopal’s office said. A meeting chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Jaisalmer decided to ensure that the state where the consumer is … Read more