Milind Brahme

Jul 24, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |R. Ramachandran |Syed Siraj |Milind Brahme

The allegations of large-scale paper leaks and the surfacing of serious irregularities in the NEET examination, in which 67 students have scored a perfect 720/720 this year, exposes the loopholes in an ill-conceived, hastily introduced and haphazardly implemented system (Cover Story, July 26). It is unfortunate that a dozen examinations had to be brought under the purview of a single centralised testing agency in order to achieve the ambition of “one nation, one examination”.

Jul 24, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | R. Ramachandran |Vaishna Roy |Syed Siraj |Milind Brahme

Hubble data reveals intermediate-mass black hole in Milky WayA NEW study, led by Maximilian Häberle of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany, has found evidence of what astronomers had been suspecting for some time: Omega Centauri, a cluster in the Milky Way of about 10 million stars and about 18,000 light years from the earth, may contain a central black hole.

Jul 24, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Jenny Erpenbeck |Michael Hofmann |Milind Brahme |Vaishna Roy

The 1993 revised edition of the popular German language primer Sprachkurs Deutsch 1 contains a small text about Germany, Austria, and Switzerland meant for simple reading comprehension. About German reunification it says pithily:“The wall has fallen, but the deep economic differences, the social differences, the psychological differences are not going away as quickly as the GDR [German Democratic Republic] newspapers. The outer unity is an opportunity, the inner unity is a task.