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Svante Pääbo: DNA Hunter

The palaeogeneticist who won the Nobel overturned ideas about our ancient past

Annie Ernaux: The Master Memoirist

For Annie Enraux, the new Nobel laureate in literature, the family narrative carries the biggest social story

Modi’s message to Zelensky, Putin reflect concern over cost of war

India will nurture ties with Russia but global slowdown is deepening New Delhi’s misgivings over wrecking ball effect of Putin’s actions

Code Red

QR codes to smear in Cong vs BJP war in poll-bound Karnataka

EC proposes parties reveal how much freebies will cost

Draft proposal intended to improve accountability in politics and deliver a reality check on poll promises

Food stocks buffer India against global shortages

The war in Ukraine has disrupted global supplies of foodgrains but it will not affect India directly as the country is self-sufficient

A Moveable Feat

With some creative skills and good old-fashioned jugaad, an informal industry lifts your home and sometimes shifts it too

Street-Smart

Advanced driver assistance technology, together with awareness and training campaigns, is helping make Indian roads safer

Terminal Questions

More men than women, more illiterates than graduates, more daily labourers than farmers, nylon ropes—suicides have unusual characteristics in India

‘I have written on Ambedkar in good faith’

Shashi Tharoor’s latest book, Ambedkar: A Life, dwells on the scholar-politician’s trials and tribulations, achievements and associations, and his differences with leaders of the stature of Gandhi and Nehru

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