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Nagaland’s music goes beyond Hornbill. Its talent is market-ready for India’s 5-star hotels

Musicians are Nagaland's soft power. And the state government's Task Force for Music and Arts wants to catapult its young talent onto the national stage.

A genetic testing revolution is on. Indian patients lining up for answers to rare diseases

Genetic testing can also tell why a person cannot digest certain foods and arm them with the knowledge to prevent or delay negative reactions.

Nagaland’s no longer the only state without a medical college. Can Kohima be next Vellore?

The Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (NIMSR) opened its doors in September to 100 students after nearly a decade of delays.

LinkedIn may lack coolness quotient. But with a billion users, it’s doing what it knows best

Other social media platforms have gone head-to-head, rebranding themselves and experimenting. LinkedIn has stayed steadfast, sharpening their tools.

In Telangana’s Mulugu, 2 women candidates with Maoist backgrounds brave ultras’ threats to seek votes

CPI(Maoist) has called for boycott in this constituency which borders Chhattisgarh. Villagers say fight primarily between sitting Congress MLA Anasuya Danasari & BRS' Bade Nagajyothi.

Kadak Singh’s Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury taking Bengali cinema beyond Bengal

Despite his success in Bollywood, Roy Chowdhury has not left Kolkata or its cinema behind. It informs his art, his stories.

Congress, BJP called Kaleshwaram KCR’s ‘ATM, farmhouse project’. Why Telangana voters aren’t interested

BRS showcases KLIP as 'mammoth engineering marvel'. Farmers unimpressed as waters yet to soak new ayacut fields; canal works pending. Voters focus on issues like lack of govt jobs.

A Diwali murder and a Godfather-style gang war is back in this Haryana village

A dreaded Jat gang, minted in the crucible of Haryana's prohibition, panchayat capture, and land grabbing nearly 30 years ago, has resurfaced this month. It’s third-generation warfare.

Dharamshala future is on steroids. All it took was a cricket stadium

Dharamshala is changing, from soul tourism to stadium tourism, Tibet to T20. New hotels, convention centre, airport expansion and perhaps even an IT park dominate official conversations.

Sriharikota, we have a problem. The ground is eroding

ISRO’s spaceport island has lost over 100 metres of shoreline to erosion in the last 4 years. Scientists may now have to zero in on a new launchpad for India’s space ambitions.

On Camera

In Tejas Dubai crash, the harm goes beyond the loss of an aircraft and pilot

Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.

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.

From a small Kangra village to Tejas cockpit: IAF fighter pilot Namansh Syal’s journey cut short

Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.