Less than human, more than lab rat

Imagine this: An adult human body, lying on a table. It is not alive — it never did have ‘life’. But it has all organs functioning — except the brain. It is not sentient; it can never feel pain or pleasure — it is “experientially blank”. A fully lab-grown zombie, produced for scientific experiments, including…

Focus on recycling and environment-friendly policies to make Telangana cleanest and safest  

 Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu along with Kitakyushu Mayor Kazuhisa Takeuchi in Kitakyushu, Japan on Sunday. After a series of meetings with major Japanese conglomerates to attract their investments in the State, the TelanganaRising delegation, headed by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy shifted its focus to studying the…

Vain digital arrest bid – The Hindu

In a digital arrest case, cyber criminals made an abortive attempt to dupe a Karimnagar-based singer cum event organiser Ch. Srikanth on Sunday. According to sources, the fraudsters allegedly made a video call on WhatsApp to Srikanth posing as Mumbai-based law enforcement officials and threatened him with digital arrest. The accused made a vain bid…

D.K. Shivakumar treading carefully on caste census

Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar. Amidst intense calculation over the political ramification of the Socio-Economic and Educational Survey on the Vokkaligas and the Veerashaiva-Lingayats, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar seems to be in a delicate situation. Any wrong move could either antagonise the Vokkaliga community or the Congress high command, any one of which is…

Exfoliating dead skin – The Hindu

Standing at the entrance of his two-room, single-storey house that has a leaking roof, fissured walls, and damaged floors, Ram Nath Yadav, 54, laughs sardonically. His neighbour, Vakil Ahmed, in his late 50s, has just told him that the Central government is planning to establish a mega leather cluster where 175 tanneries will be established…

Amidst Indo-Bangladesh tensions, railways halts connectivity initiative project funding

  India has suspended – nearly ₹5000 crore worth of funding, as per some estimates – and other construction-related work on railway connectivity initiative in Bangladesh, citing ongoing “political turmoil” and “safety of labour”.  The decision, which halts at least three ongoing projects and pauses survey work on five others, mostly disrupts plans to link India’s North…