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Ancient civilisation casting a shadow on modern politics

Excavation work at Rakhigarhi, an Indus Valley Civilisation site in Haryana. (Saumya Khandelwal/ HT Archive)

Updated on Apr 5, 2024, 6:16 AM IST

Candidates chess: All eyes on India’s young stalwarts

Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa during Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz Tournament 2023, in Kolkata. (PTI)

Updated on Apr 4, 2024, 10:44 AM IST

Russian Grandmaster Svidler to be by Pragg’s side as ‘second’ at Candidates

India's Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (AFP)

Updated on Apr 2, 2024, 6:30 AM IST

Power of judicial review must also steer policy changes: Justice Gavai

Supreme Court judge Bhushan R Gavai. (Wikipedia)

Updated on Mar 30, 2024, 9:41 AM IST

In Maoist-hit Bastar, an upsurge in aggression from both sides

CRPF officers during a camp in Puvarti. (HT photo)

Updated on Mar 29, 2024, 7:18 AM IST

India’s elite race walkers make a mark, with Paris on their minds

Race walking is considered one of the most technical in athletics. (REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 28, 2024, 7:29 AM IST

Can the CM run the government from jail? Experts weigh in

ED officials taking Kejriwal to the agency’s headquarters hours after arresting him. (ANI)

Updated on Mar 27, 2024, 7:08 AM IST

Dilli Haat, a centrepiece of Delhi, turns 30

Visitors at Dilli Haat, an open -air market spread across 6 acres that has proved to be just the right spot for cash-strapped college students, young professionals, and for weekend family outings with kids in tow, in New Delhi on March 13. (Arvind Yadav/HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 25, 2024, 5:02 AM IST

World faces drastic fall in fertility rate: Lancet study

A lab technician puts fertilised egg under the microscope at a fertility laboratory. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated on Mar 21, 2024, 8:39 AM IST

Tragic cocktail of bad health care, superstition for MP’s tribals

A slogan warning people against branding written across a house in Shahdol. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Feb 14, 2024, 3:06 AM IST

Andhra’s political fight, on a celluloid battlefield

Yatra 2 follows the life of Jagan Mohan Reddy. (HT Photo)

Updated on Feb 13, 2024, 6:20 AM IST

Mir Sultan Khan: Recognised decades later, meet Asia’s first Grandmaster

Mir Sultan Khan (centre) playing multiple boards at the Empire Chess Club, London in 1931. (Bettmann Archive/ GettyImages)

Published on Feb 6, 2024, 8:08 AM IST

Politics & faith: Jagannath project marks BJD’s Odisha push

The Jagannath Temple in Odisha’s Puri. (File)

Updated on Jan 11, 2024, 7:36 AM IST

CES 2024: AI to EV, what to expect at global tech showcase

The four-day CES 2024 began on January 9. (Official images)

Updated on Jan 10, 2024, 8:59 AM IST

How new insights into Indus Valley were unlocked

Across the ancient world, all writing systems were invented from the needs of accounting and commercial administration. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jan 4, 2024, 12:53 AM IST

In ULFA deal, a long and complicated quest for closure

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with members of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) during signing of a peace accord between ULFA and the central and Assam governments, in New Delhi, Friday. (PTI)

Updated on Jan 3, 2024, 2:15 AM IST

Jewel thief in Bihar jail behind spate of heists?

Subodh Kumar Singh alias Dilip Singh was arrested in January 2018 with 15kg of gold — the takings from a heist in a jewellery store in Patna district.

Updated on Jan 2, 2024, 4:57 AM IST

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo interview: ‘If we want to end extreme poverty…'

Economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.

Updated on Jan 1, 2024, 11:08 AM IST

Water conservation in an era where flooding, drought collide

Amid erratic rainfall, water is wasted as run-off. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 29, 2023, 1:41 AM IST

In urban hot boxes, the need for a plan

Three acres in this bustling East Andheri suburb are being converted into an urban forest as part of the city’s climate action plan launched last year. (HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 26, 2023, 11:30 AM IST

Life in a Delhi colony, with a big cat on the prowl

Life in a Delhi colony, with a big cat on the prowl

Updated on Dec 18, 2023, 11:15 AM IST

Accounting for colonial rule reduces India’s climate role by 15%

HT Archive

Published on Nov 27, 2023, 10:01 AM IST

Mix, rebottle, supply: The big liquor swindle in NCR

Mix, rebottle, supply: The big liquor swindle

Updated on Oct 31, 2023, 6:19 AM IST

From Zampa to Rashid: Googly masters have batters in a spin

Australia's bowler Adam Zampa celebrates with teammate Josh Inglis after taking the wicket of Netherlands' batter Roelof van der Merwe during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 match

Updated on Oct 26, 2023, 10:31 PM IST

Role-playing, motorcycle chases: How budding snatchers prepare in Delhi

According to Delhi Police data , 5,018 FIRs on snatching have been filed in the city till September 30 this year. At least, 8,387 snatching cases were reported in 2022, and 9,383 cases in 2021. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 24, 2023, 12:04 AM IST

A missing student, cries for justice, an enduring mystery

Fatima Nafees, Najeeb’s mother, participated in several protests organised by various student outfits, demanding the authorities find his son. (HT Archive)

Updated on Oct 15, 2023, 12:35 PM IST

Gehlot aims to counter BJP’s Hindutva plank

HT Image

Updated on Oct 13, 2023, 6:46 AM IST

How the colourful world of quantum dots changed electronics and therapy

A screen shows this year's laureates US Chemist Moungi Bawendi, US Chemist Louis Brus and Russian physicist Alexei Ekimov during the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry in Stockholm on Wednesday. (AFP)

Updated on Oct 8, 2023, 11:39 AM IST

How 3 physicists froze time for a peek at electron dynamics

Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier are announced as the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics at a press conference in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday. (REUTERS)

Updated on Oct 4, 2023, 6:38 AM IST

Cong faces anti-incumbency, BJP stares at disorder in house in Rajasthan

A safer assumption however would be that the voter is silent, keeping his cards close to the chest. He’s watching on which side of the fence comes down the camel: Uunth kis karvat baithta hai. (File photo)

Updated on Sep 26, 2023, 4:41 AM IST

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