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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicSilk Road

Topic: Silk Road

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

Akanksha Mishra -
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

+TFP Anirudh Kanisetti -
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

Riaz Dean -
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

Syed Munir Khasru -
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?

David Fickling -
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

Wade Shepard -
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

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

On Camera

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Opinion

Biting terror, doggone dilemma, urban menace. Indian TV war over Delhi street dogs

Shailaja Bajpai -
News channels were also in two minds about removing stray dogs to the government dog pounds. NDTV took credit for it and CNN-News 18 called ‘controversial order’.

Dogs matter more to Indian middle class than people

+TFP

Nehru and Jinnah made Indian politics their personal quarrel. Partition was a consequence

Economy

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Akanksha Mishra -
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

Defence

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

Javaria Rana -
21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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