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Statesman News Service

A quest for God in irrational numbers

My physicist friends sometimes go crazy with the “magic” of numbers. A recent discussion involved the famous irrational number “pi”. A friend was mesmerized by a YouTube video on what the speaker in the video called “Powell’s Pi Paradox”.

In abeyance

Apprehensions, thus, that it is only buying time, by assuring wrestlers that the police probe into the allegations leveled by them will be concluded by 15 June and charge-sheets presented by that date, will persist.

Gamechanger

The Union Health Ministry has spent over Rs 1,100 crore on the new AIIMS in Assam and more monies are expected to be made available for the latest medical equipment.

Wars of plunder

he international system, constructed following the Second World War, is almost unrecognizable. New geopolitical realities demand new structures of global governance and a new economy for many which will provide a greater voice for developing and emerging countries. But it remains a work in progress thanks to US intransigence. The US record of being on the wrong side of history is unparalleled