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Marble, glass, steel: Indian architects caught between desires of cash-rich & climate alarm

The heady constructions, with their hyper-connected condos, now dot the urban sprawl at the edge of every city. For every 100 clients, there are 1,000 dealers.

Congress has little to gain and a lot to lose from Opposition unity charade

The best hope of the opposition would be to deny the BJP a majority. Rahul Gandhi would love it, but this also carries the risk of revitalising regional players.

British-era construction to 2023 floods — Delhi’s Old Yamuna bridge has been a witness to changing India

Known as 'lohe ka pul' in common parlance, the iron truss bridge was built in 1863 as part of a railroad link between Delhi & Calcutta. Now submerged in Yamuna, it waits for the flood to recede. 

South Korea building on K-pop craze to boost art scene. And India is part of its ‘big mission’

Seoul’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art aims to ‘build an overseas network’ for Korean art and has already collaborated with New York’s popular Guggenheim Museum.

Gulab jamun to ISRO SSLV—space evangelist Srimathy Kesan building satellites with teen girls

Gulab jamuns inspired Srimathy Kesan and her team of seven teenagers to develop tiny satellites the size of delicious round syrupy desserts. They built...

K-pop to K-dramas, there is a new K in the life of Indians – it’s Korean language

TOPIK – Test of Proficiency in Korean – exam takers in India have nearly doubled in the last six years, with 779 registrations in 2022.

MP’s Nepanagar forest is the new battleground. IPS, IFS, tribals, activists, mafia at war

Three district forest officers have been transferred out of Madhya Pradesh's Burhanpur district, and two of them served for less than two months.

Corruption isn’t over after 9 yrs of Modi rule. Now it’s just a weapon to make crooks join BJP

Maharashtra political battle shows Indian politics is now dead of ideology and divided into corruption and weaponisation of anti-corruption.

No one wants to talk about rapes in Manipur. There’s a silence at the heart of the violence

In India, communal rioting includes revenge attacks based on fake news – from Muzaffarnagar riots to Delhi riots. Manipur's ethnic clashes witnessed 'revenge rape' following a false claim.

‘Gunfire, bombs every night’ — caught between Meiteis & Kukis, Muslim village wants peace

In Kwakta village, perched between Meitei-dominated Bishnupur and Kuki-dominated Churachandpur, fear hangs heavy. Caught in the crossfire, villagers are desperate for a resolution.  

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.