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How basic Bengali food became a premium experience at Sienna

At this Kolkata restaurant, home flavours, forgotten traditions and hyperlocal sourcing meet a new, paying audience.

For the worker, by the worker, of the worker—Kerala cooperative’s century-old push for growth with dignity

The Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society (ULCCS) runs ventures ranging from construction to social care for the elderly and intellectually challenged.

A US man lived two days without lungs. Why it can revolutionise transplant practice

In India, infection-driven severe lung failure is common. Pneumonia, TB, air-pollution-related diseases make respiratory illness one of country’s leading causes of hospitalisation.

A winter bloom in city: How Pink Trumpet trees briefly soften Mumbai’s Eastern Express

Native to parts of Central America and the Caribbean, Tabebuia heterophylla is not indigenous to India. Yet in the last decade, it has become one of Mumbai’s most recognisable seasonal trees.

K-pop is on trial after Ghaziabad sisters’ deaths. Probe hints it was their only escape

What began as a local tragedy spiralled into a national debate about Korean content, its growing popularity among young people in India, and whether it had pushed the sisters over the edge.

Gurugram startup grew a snakeskin shoe in a lab. It wants to make India a bioscience power

After 10 years of painstaking research, Gurugram bioscience startup Absolute is finally taking its groundbreaking science to market. ‘Economics is greater than genomics.’

Payal Tadvi suicide: 7 years on, why case that prompted new UGC rules is still in limbo

Bhakti Mehare, Hema Ahuja, and Ankita Khandelwal—3 of her seniors—were initially arrested on charges of harassment & casteist remarks but later released on bail. Case remains stalled.

The idea of India rests on ‘traitors’ like Uttarakhand’s Mohammad Deepak

When I choose to be a dissenting voice within my community, or when I write about atrocities faced by minorities in Muslim-majority countries, people like Deepak become my strength.

Nuances, complexities & sore points of India-US trade deal sealed by Trump & Modi

Negotiations began even before Trump took office in January 2025. That said, it is still neither concluded nor signed.

Why Indian liberals respect Mamata—she’s a politician challenging their defeatist consensus

Secularism may be a tired, washed-out concept in much of India, but in Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal, it still reigns in all its majesty.

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Syringes, MRI to ventilators, West Asia war squeezing India’s medical supply chain—costs up 10 to 50%

Industry says manufacturers have 2-4 weeks of buffer stocks, but prolonged disruption could push up shortage risks, especially of consumables like IV and syringes.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.