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Startups to govt policies—India wants to lead the lab-grown meat revolution

Once limited to science fiction films like Star Trek, cultivated meat is on the brink of hitting restaurant plates and grocery stores.

Small hotels are the backbone of India’s new sex culture. And this is their daily fight

Budget short-stay hotels gave young India privacy and a sex life but they’re the latest targets of moral policing. ‘Nobody cares about our problems— we’re villains in everyone’s eyes.’

Baniya-branded food is finally on the table. Being Bania, Baniya Kitchen, Baneeya Sa

Baniya cuisine is venturing out of home kitchens to Zomato, Swiggy, Amazon, Blinkit. It’s part hustle, part love — ‘people don’t know enough about it’.

Hindu group vs Miss Rishikesh contestants. “Girls fight such battles since childhood”

More than 5,000 people attended the final event, where all contestants wore ethnic and Indian outfits. The controversy arose only during rehearsals, when the girls wore Western clothes.

Can monkeys teach ‘dumb’ robots? Bengaluru’s CynLr & IISc lab are making automation smarter

Robotics startup CynLr has teamed up with neuroscientists at IISc’s Vision Lab to build intuitive robots that could transform automation. Tie-up will also fund PhDs and train new talent.

Delhi’s Azimganj Serai conservation has been stuck for 8 yrs—over trees

To access the site, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture needs approval from the Delhi government and the National Zoological Park authorities. This has been pending since 2017.

Industries finally returning to Bihar—There is Britannia, Zara, Van Heusen and Adani

Between 2016 and 2020, 1,238 factories received Phase One clearance, attracting Rs 16,832 cr in investment. Since 2020, that figure has leapt to 2,154 factories, with investment ballooning to Rs 90,503 crore.

Bihar is seeing a stock market revolution. Patna to Ara, people moving from FD to futures

In just five years, stock market participation in Bihar has grown by 715 per cent, putting the state among India’s top ten retail investing hubs.

Did National Museum need a shake-up? Nehru’s vision to Modi’s Yuge Yugeen

Modi govt’s new Yuge Yugeen has set off lamentations about the loss of the old National Museum. But the institution did not always do justice to its role as the custodian of India’s patrimony.

New British boarding schools are here. The latest accessory for India’s rich

Ten new British boarding schools are en route to India, while three have already set up shop. This new-age passage to India is banking on Indians’ ever-expanding aspirations to clinch a global stamp.

On Camera

Europe’s sanctions are not the moral compass it paints to be. Look at the EU’s own data

Three years into the war, Europe’s sanctions regime now resembles a policy of managed hypocrisy: Moral rhetoric for public consumption, exemptions for industrial preservation.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

IAF’s leased KC-135 lands in Agra, American firm’s pilots to man mid-air refueller

India’s refueller fleet comprises six Russian Ilushin-78 tankers, first inducted in 2003, which are facing huge maintenance and serviceability issues.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.