Great at coding, yet stuck with old thinking: Is India wasting its 'economic supremacy' potential? Akshat Shrivastava explainsFinancial educator Akshat Shrivastava highlighted that while India has top-tier engineering talent, it still lags in achieving global tech ...
12 Jul, 2025, 08.30 PM IST
Pills, promotions and a dose of doubt: Influencers, VC money fuel India’s booming supplements marketIndia's health supplement market is booming, fueled by increased health awareness post Covid-19 and social media marketing. Venture capital...
26 May, 2025, 01.38 PM IST
CIA, mystics, and a biblical treasure: How the US spent millions on psychic spies to find the Ark of the CovenantIn 1988, a top-secret CIA experiment under Project Sun Streak reportedly used a psychic to locate the Ark of the Covenant. The psychic, una...
27 Mar, 2025, 08.37 PM IST
'Arrogant left-liberal': Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu strikes back at Liver Doc for calling him 'illiterate uncle' over cow urine claimsThe debate over the medicinal properties of cow urine resurfaced after Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu supported claims made by IIT Madras Di...
23 Jan, 2025, 12.40 PM IST
Who is V Kamakoti? Meet IIT Madras director who praised cow urine's medicinal properties, claimed it can cure IBSA viral video shows IIT Madras director V. Kamakoti allegedly praising gomutra (cow urine) for its “anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and digest...
19 Jan, 2025, 05.12 PM IST
Shark Tank India season 4: Anupam Mittal questions entrepreneur’s lack of Ayurvedic qualifications, calls business ‘poora gadhbadh’Shark Tank India Season 4 featured Bharat Khatri from Indore seeking Rs 50 lakh for 2% equity in his hair care business. Despite impressing...
19 Jan, 2025, 01.38 AM IST
How a talk on 'Garbhavigyan' at IIT Bombay ignited debate over Ayurvedic pseudoscienceAn event on 'the science of begetting a good progeny' at IIT Bombay raised concerns among students. Organized by the Sanskrit Cell, the tal...
17 Jan, 2025, 04.06 PM IST
Karnataka HC restores TheLiverDoc account on XA trial court had earlier suspended the account after the Bengaluru-based pharma company had sued Philips in September last year when he po...
10 Oct, 2023, 08.12 PM IST
Won't get dissuaded because my work is closely connected to my activism: ‘TheLiverDoc’ Abby PhilipsLiverDoc's account with 187k followers was suspended on an order of the Bengaluru Civil Court on a suit filed by Himalaya Wellness. Dr Phil...
08 Oct, 2023, 08.38 AM IST
'Sixth Sense, Gut Feeling': How can power of intuition help you in day-to-day life?Intuition, or the Sixth Sense, involves unconscious decision-making based on patterns and prior experiences. The ancient Indian shastras ca...
29 Jul, 2023, 03.17 PM IST
Happy Twosday! Why numbers like 2/22/22 have been too fascinating for over 2,000 years"Twosday" carries absolutely no historical significance or any cosmic message. Yet it does speak volumes about our brains and cultures.
22 Feb, 2022, 11.47 AM IST
Pregnant or worried about infertility? Get vaccinated against COVID-19It is completely understandable to have questions about how a new vaccine might affect reproductive health. But the science is clear that g...
26 Aug, 2021, 11.39 AM IST
Honour Norman Borlaug on his centenary by approving GM cropsBorlaug was an outspoken supporter of GM crops. He blasted anti-GM activists as alarmists ignorant of nature and spreading falsehoods based...
06 Aug, 2014, 04.57 AM IST
- An immortal intimation
So did he believe in a Creator? From his writings, we know he despised organised religion, mysticism, spirituality and other such forms of ...
21 Jun, 2011, 06.02 AM IST
Gardner of beliefsMartin Gardner, who died at 95 recently, became synonymous with recreational math with his column in Scientific American. But he also had a...
17 Jun, 2010, 04.44 AM IST
An ontological sense of comfortIt’s funny how the reactive human thought process generally works. You have a person who, say, spends his whole life debunking paranormal o...
10 Apr, 2009, 01.41 AM IST
- The American anti-intellectual threat
US must return to the global consensus based on shared science rather than anti-intellectualism. That is the urgent challenge at the heart ...
23 Oct, 2008, 01.11 AM IST