Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis: the physicist who gave India its statistical foundation

The institutions P.C. Mahalanobis built—the ISI, the NSS, and the very culture of data-driven policy—remain the bedrock upon ...

Putin is turning eighth-grade classrooms into army training grounds

A vast militarization of the education system is gathering pace in Russian classrooms, where students are trained to handle weapons by active soldiers.