Meet Svante Paabo, the Swedish scientist who won Nobel in medicine. His father got it in 1982Techniques that Paabo spearheaded allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins - the Denisovans as...
04 Oct, 2022, 11.32 AM IST
Heardle, August 15: Time to unravel hints, answer to today's gameIt's time to put your musical expertise to test by playing today's Heardle. So, get your headphones ready now.
15 Aug, 2022, 01.42 PM IST
Greta Thunberg feels UN climate summit in Glasgow is a 'failure'Delegates from nearly 200 nations are planning to hammer out ways to meet the Paris Agreement goals.
06 Nov, 2021, 10.27 AM IST
The antidote to 3rd Covid wave is combination of social distancing, health infra and massive vaccination outreachThe key question at this juncture is: will there be a third wave, and if yes, how should the government and citizens gear up to confront th...
16 May, 2021, 06.30 PM IST
An uplifting tale of two men who orchestrated Delhi-NCR’s growth‘Metro Man’ Dr E Sreedharan and M3M group director Pankaj Bansal transformed the region’s infrastructure.
09 Mar, 2021, 08.52 AM IST
Northeast's love for Turkeys and the challenges faced by those raising themThere are not all that many turkeys in India – 4,23,374 in the census, compared to 80.78 crore chickens. But this represents a whopping 66....
20 Dec, 2019, 11.33 PM IST
Cash rules everything around Germany in world that's using cardsIndia and China are both driving hard toward a cashless future, for different reasons. But, none of these novel methods is widely accepted ...
06 Feb, 2018, 11.48 PM IST
India can provide sustainability model to world: SwedenThe climate change envoy also said that India is on the growth path to address needs of a large population and meet the Sustainable Develop...
02 Dec, 2017, 03.37 PM IST
Maharashtra educationist's daughter Nila Vikhe Patil named Sweden PMO advisorNila would be working with Kjell Stefan Lofven, the Prime Minister of Sweden since 2014 and the leader of the Social Democrats since 2012.
24 Jan, 2016, 04.29 PM IST
Akhilesh Yadav wants UP to be an Asian miracle despite setbacks such as DadriSwedish home furnishing company Ikea is the latest to join the bandwagon: it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UP government on Sep...
26 Oct, 2015, 11.18 AM IST
How the startup ecosystem has transformed over the decades, and where it is headed“This is the golden era of India’s entrepreneurial journey. Entrepreneurs are the new celebrated, romanticised heroes,” says a serial entre...
03 May, 2015, 11.09 AM IST
'Make More in India': Why IKEA is beefing up its manufacturing ahead of its store launchIndia is currently among the top 10 sourcing countries for IKEA. The plan is to double sourcing from India to €630 million by 2020.
08 Feb, 2015, 10.15 AM IST
Watch out for books on 2G, Amit Shah; A Raja memoir in 2015A revelatory book by the controversial A Raja, biographies of Amit Shah, MS Dhoni and Netaji's aide A C N Nambiar has an exciting line-up o...
04 Jan, 2015, 12.45 PM IST
Local brands revise plans to take on Swedish furniture maker IKEALocal players have already begun to get aggressive on their expansion plans even as they believe that IKEA will benefit them by giving a fi...
21 Nov, 2012, 11.30 AM IST
- Slow foods can grow fast in India
The Slow Food festival is a testament to the power of an idea that sprang from a protest against a planned McDonald's outlet in the heart o...
09 Dec, 2010, 12.52 AM IST
Riga: Perfect blend of medieval centre and modern cityA city of many facets - many of them contradictory, all of them amazing - Riga is not unlike a microcosm of the tumultuous history of Europ...
27 May, 2010, 07.19 AM IST
- How Christmas celebrations link European nations
This week in Delhi, there was an unusual picture of Christmas presented to an India that has also succumbed to the template of “roast turke...
20 Dec, 2007, 12.00 AM IST