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TopicSilk Road

Topic: Silk Road

6th century Brahmin who took Buddhism to China—his DNA analysis rewrites Silk Road history

Researchers at Fudan University carefully extracted DNA from Li Dan's tooth. It highlights the long-standing cultural connections between India and China.

AI-enabled DNA ‘switches’ can now control gene functions in tissues, organs

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Dancing Shiva in Samarkand: Central Asian traders spread Hinduism, Buddhism along Silk Road

800 years before Babur, Hindu gods were worshipped by merchant diasporas in Central Asia.

We know very little of the Kushans— middlemen of silk road & empire that gave India Kanishka

In ‘The Stone Tower’, Riaz Dean blends aims to solve a 2,000-year-old riddle: Where was the Stone Tower, the lost landmark that represented the midpoint and thumping heart of the Silk Road?

China is trying to win over critics of the new Silk Road

BRI is yet to reframe its image as a responsible initiative. A good start would be to make it more transparent in its implementation.

What are we to make of China’s plans to build a Silk Road railway through the heart of Asia?

In China itself, rail traffic peaked in 2013 and has never quite recovered, despite an economy that’s grown by half since then.

How to travel the ancient cities that are part of the $800 billion Silk Road

Here’s everything you will need to do while exploring the authentic, less spoiled ancient cities of Silk Road.

China’s superpower potential could fizzle out before it’s fully realised

Measuring China's growth through a Western rubric is proving inadequate for a country that wants to be "anything but America". 

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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.