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Topic: MTR

India’s filter coffee is now best in the world. Why is it absent from global menus?

Filter coffee has secured the top spot on TasteAtlas’ ‘Top 62 Coffees in the World’. It has even surpassed the beloved café Cubano. For some, the recognition comes too late.

MTR invented rava idlis when Japan invaded Burma. It caused a rice shortage in Bengaluru

In ‘India’s Most Legendary Restaurants’, editor Ruth Dsouza Prabhu compiles essays on the food and history of Paragon, Peter Cat, Karim’s and more.

Bisibele bath to rava idli: How Bengaluru’s MTR mixed tradition and innovation perfectly

MTR today does not want to change its core product – even though, ironically, its founders kept innovating in early 20th century to make it what it is today.

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Chinese chatter on Delhi-Shanghai flight — ‘normalisation’ needs more than linking the skies

Chinese commentators consistently portray India as the driver of rapprochement. New Delhi’s outreach is framed as a pragmatic, reluctant choice shaped by multiple pressures.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘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.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.