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Extreme heat can destroy DNA in tissue, blood. How forensic teams will recover it from Air India crash site

At crash sites, experts look for bone samples. That said, due to the impact, chances are high that the samples can get mixed up, which makes profiling tougher

Air India crash: Inside Ahmedabad hospital morgue, bodies await DNA ID as doctors race against heat, time

All of Ahmedabad’s morgues combined don’t have enough space to store the bodies, it is learnt. Cold storage is available only at a few hospitals, and in limited capacity.

AI isn’t just for future but the past too—it’s identifying Jews in photos from World War II

Here are 6 ways the technology is being used around the world to help us understand the past and prepare for the future.

Copyright issue, says UIDAI, days after ‘Aadhaar’ maker says release of film put on hold

Directed by Suman Ghosh, the film was cleared by the censor board in 2019 and premiered in Busan the same year. But its India release in February was stalled over objections by UIDAI.

How Jamaican Supreme Court has killed India’s hope of selling Aadhaar to the world, for now

Jamaican Supreme Court sided with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud’s minority opinion in Aadhaar verdict while striking down its government's biometric project.

On Camera

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.