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Photos of the week: A Delhi demolition, and persimmons in plenty

New Delhi: From protests against a demolition drive near Faiz-e-Elahi Masjid at Turkman Gate inDelhi to Kullu’s persimmon revolution delivering lakhs in profit to...

‘Consult dietitians, not Internet’: Experts after 39-yr-old Russian food influencer’s sudden death

Russian influencer Zhannah Samsonova died of 'starvation' after living on an 'only-fruits diet' for over a decade, according to reports.

IIT Guwahati researchers create edible coating to boost shelf life of fruits, vegetables

The layer, made primarily from micro-algae extract, can be directly coated on the vegetable or even morphed into a vegetable storage pouch.

Pomegranate to prawns — how Barmer is moving beyond desert staples bajra & cumin

Scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra have helped farmers in Rajasthan's Barmer district grow fruits and vegetables never grown here before, and earn up to five times more.

Food combining ‘ayurvedic’ taboos are back as fad. It’s ok to mix fruits with vegetables

Popular tips on ‘food combining’ are floating on social media and are followed by many. But are we ready to look into the evidence?

Allopathic drug in Jackfruit365 flour that ‘controls diabetes’? WhatsApp forward spurs fresh test

A lab report doing the rounds on doctor groups claims a brand of jackfruit flour sold by Kerala-based Jackfruit365 contains an allopathic drug. Allegation remains unverified.

A diet consisting mainly of fruit is bad for you

Some fruitarians claim that ‘going raw’ has marked benefits including curing cancer and eliminating bloating and body odour. There is no robust evidence to back these claims.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.