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This report by Ramesh Menon over at India Legal is an update only in the sense that we now have more details. Here's an excerpt: The ...

Mark Johnston fires the first shot in his editorial at the journal Genetics with a journal-to-journal comparison (within a select set of b...

... against Bangladesh, the "minnow" that sent England packing , here's a fake interview of MCC Chairman . Much fun there, inc...

V. Vinay's tweet-essay on Pi is a must-read! Story of Pi . Manil Suri's op-ed in NYTimes : Don’t Expect Math to Make Sense . ...

Vinod Mehta, the founder-editor of Outlook , passed away a few days ago. Many obituaries have noted his courageous journalism, one of its hi...

If you ever visit the website of the Prime Minister, there's this link that beckons you: Interact with PM . Don't click the link! ...

While the present government has chosen to continue with the UPA regime's policy of opening new AIIMS in different states, how well has ...

Disturbing report in The Hindustan Times : PMO Rejects TIFR Director's Appointment : he Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has rejected the ...

A great infographic on migration patterns of international students . Duncan Watts at BuzzFeed Books : Should you go to grad school? ...

... something new . This one is about the vicious campaign in 1897 at the University of Cambridge to protest against "proposals to al...

That's the title of this charming Paris Review essay about the six-year slice of the philosopher's life spent as a teacher in seve...

In Nautilus , he tries very hard, perhaps too hard, to convince us that people whose research gets scooped would always feel bad -- horribly...

Prashant Nanda reports in Mint that MHRD has "allowed" IITs and IIMs to hire engineers, civil servants and other such professiona...

An article he published in 1986 in The Writer -- Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in Ten Minutes -- is largely dev...

Ah, the possibilities of student exchange [This is six months late, but I'm struck by the timelessness of this "news"]: A s...