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3 weeks ago | 
thehindu.com | Sobhana K Nair |Jacob Koshy
‘Our whole universe was in a hot dense state and then 14 billion years ago expansion started it .’ This episode is about a scientist and one of the giants of cosmology who would have disagreed with the BareNakedLadies theme song to the Big Bang Theory. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, who passed earlier this month, was, as a scientist, best known for advancing alternate interpretations to the mainstream consensus that the Universe began as Big Bang.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Peerzada Ashiq |Sobhana K Nair
Touring the villages in Jammu and Kashmir affected by the recent Indo-Pakistan military confrontation, a five-member delegation of the Trinamool Congress on Thursday (May 22, 2025) advocated restoration of Statehood to the Union Territory. “It is a legitimate aspiration of the people. We firmly believe that Statehood must be fully restored to J&K.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Jacob Koshy |Sobhana K Nair
This week, we explore the lives of three Indian scientists, Kamala Sohoni, Anna Mani, and Janaki Ammal, who were the first women to get doctorates in science in India, making them the first women scientists in India. Spanning meteorology, botany, and nutritional sciences, they had long careers in prominent scientific departments – even heading some of them – at a time when these were overwhelmingly male bastions.
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1 month ago | 
shorturl.at | Sobhana K Nair |Suhasini Haidar
Pakistan did not resort to “nuclear signalling” in the wake of Operation Sindoor and the United States was “neither involved nor informed” about cessation of firing between the two countries, the government told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs headed by senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday (May 19, 2025).
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Sobhana K Nair |Suhasini Haidar |Sandeep Phukan
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju has reached out to senior leaders from the Opposition and the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as the government gets ready to send eight delegations to major countries in Europe, West Asia and Africa, to present India’s point of view on the recent conflict with Pakistan. According to sources, several leaders have accepted the invitation.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Suhasini Haidar |Sobhana K Nair
The government is planning to send multi-party delegations for a diplomatic outreach with other countries to present India’s point of view on the recent India-Pakistan conflict in wake of the Pahalgam attack, in which 26 tourists were killed by unidentified terrorists. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) didn’t respond to requests for a comment on the plan and why the government felt it was required.
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1 month ago | 
thehindu.com | Jacob Koshy |Sobhana K Nair
Producer’s Note: For a better experience, listen to the audio version as many elements weren’t used on YT because of copyright reasons. Science isn’t always the noble pursuit of truth. Ambition and greed can sometimes corrupt even promising scientists. This episode delves into one of the all-time great hoaxes perpetrated by Indian palaeontologist and geologist, Vishwajit Gupta, of Panjab University.
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2 months ago | 
thehindu.com | Sobhana K Nair |Vijaita Singh
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh chaired an all-party meeting on Thursday (April 24, 2025) in the wake of the terror attack at Pahalgam, where 26 men were gunned down by terrorists on Tuesday (April 23, 2025). In their briefing, officials from the Home Ministry and the Intelligence Bureau informed that there was no police permission to open the Baisaran meadow where the incident occurred.
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2 months ago | 
thehindu.com | Sobhana K Nair |Jacob Koshy
In this episode, we dive into the life of Dr Subhash Mukherjee, an obstetrician and gynaecologist from erstwhile Calcutta, who should have been one of India’s most famous and decorated doctors, but whose life took a very tragic turn. Dr Mukherjee pioneered techniques in what was then the fledgling science of In Vitro Fertilisation, but his work was ridiculed and denigrated by the establishment, so much so, that it influenced his unfortunate decision to end his life.
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2 months ago | 
thehindu.com | Sobhana K Nair |Jacob Koshy
Homi Bhabha, back from England, and embroiled into the scientific institutions of colonial India begins work on his vision of setting up independent scientific institutions. How did he manage to carve out a virtually uninhibited line of communication with Jawaharlal Nehru? How did he get a free hand to shape the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research? Why In spite of resources and patronage, has the nuclear story in India nit achieved its potential?
