Author: Priyanshu Mohanty

Overview The Indian National Congress has arraigned the government to be complicit in the violence that has rocked the Northeastern Indian states of Assam and Mizoram, stemming from a raging border dispute and intrastate clashes within Meghalaya. The party has strongly condemned the current situation and criticized the Central government for being inactive and inept to continue “unprecedented cycles of” lawlessness, heated conflicts, and pugilistic clashes. Pointing out the delicate and volatile situation of hostility betwixt Assam and Mizoram, the Chinese aggression and incursion into Arunachal Pradesh by building an illegal construction, and also the alleged violation of the non-starter…

Overview Body Dysmorphia or self-obsession with one’s own body is a lesser-known issue that significantly affects the present youth. Dr Mayurnath Reddy, a consultant psychiatrist from Yashoda Hospitals Hyderabad, elaborates that approximately one million cases arise annually in India.(Dysmorphia) He also iterates that this has a profound impact on the psyche of individuals and can decrement productivity whilst promulgating low-self esteem and, in extreme cases, even depression. A worrisome trend has been observed that the cases are rising exponentially each year and that we’re still equipped with so little knowledge to curb it. Dr Samir Parikh, director of Mental Health…

Overview Deep space is a mysterious realm. It has its share of uncanny, peculiar light secrets that humans have been trying to decipher since time immemorial. These secrets shape our understanding of the universe, in general, and our planet Earth, in particular. A holistic comprehension begins with deft studies in the fields of astrophysics, astronomy, and the like. It assists in understanding many erstwhile natural phenomena that we’ve deemed to be supernatural or miraculous just because of our limited knowledge and obliviousness. Blackholes are one such phenomenon that scientists have been trying to comprehend since the last century. There are…

Overview Over recent years, an insight of AI has hogged the limelight among modern technological marvels. So much so that it finds various applications in our day-to-day life — ranging from YouTube videos recommendations to weather forecasts, home automation, etc. It’s as if we’re sharing some symbiotic relationship with it.  With great power comes great responsibility. For a unique niche of technology to thrive, there should be a dedicated ecosystem of startups, organizations, or businesses entrusted with the responsibility to ideate ways to keep the interest alive. We’ve seen this with Edison’s idea of direct current electricity when he decided…

Overview The number of children admitted to hospitals due to COVID-19 throughout the U.S. has hit a new high with over 1900 cases, throwing the healthcare services into a tizzy with the highly contagious Delta variant being attributed as the reason.  Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reveals that with 1902 hospitalizations, it also accounts for 2.4% of all coronavirus-related ailments. Children are significantly prone because most of them are still unvaccinated. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and FDA (Food & Drug Administration) haven’t given the go-ahead for vaccines to be administered to children…

Taliban monitored teachers and their relationship with foreign aid groups, which invited animosity on the former’s behalf. It’s yet another horrific day for the ordinary citizens of Afghanistan. In a country ripped apart by war in the past two decades between Taliban militants and US-backed troops and Afghan armed forces, they’ve come face-to-face with a grim reality. The Taliban has already overrun 11 provincial capitals, and the day is not far when they will wrest control of Kabul and Kandahar, the latter of which has been a stronghold of its oppressive regime. Enforcement of Regressive Policies Teachers have learned the…

Overview A group of researchers from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine uncovered that brain signals that are instrumental in storing and processing memories could be a key to influencing sugar levels in the body. In ground-breaking research published in the Nature journal, it has been surmised that brain activities and metabolism may be more closely linked than originally thought. The researchers found a consistent pattern of a dip in sugar levels when “fire” or ripples were generated in the hippocampus region of the rats’ brains. What is the hippocampus? The hippocampus is a structure inside the temporal lobe of a typical mammalian…