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Look ma, no hands!

India, Jan. 4 -- "T here's never a dull moment in timekeeping," says Poonam Arora, senior principal scientist and head of the Indian Standard Time Metrology Division of the National Physical Laborator... Read More


Look ma, no hands: Rachel Lopez pays a visit to India's atomic clocks

India, Jan. 3 -- "There's never a dull moment in timekeeping," says Poonam Arora, senior principal scientist and head of the Indian Standard Time Metrology Division of the National Physical Laboratori... Read More


Tick talk: Rachel Lopez takes a trip through time, as IST turns 120

India, Jan. 3 -- Milestone alert! January 1 marked 120 years of the adoption of Indian Standard Time. For anyone whose eyes quickly darted to their watch, it means that our national clock - five-and-... Read More


Rachel Lopez picks her favourite reads of 2025

India, Dec. 26 -- I read Samantha Harvey's Orbital in January, which left a high watermark for the year. It is slim at about 140 pages. I thought I'd speed through the 2024 Booker-prize winner over a ... Read More


The unrequited loves of fandoms: Cambridge Dictionary names'Parasocial' word of 2025

India, Nov. 19 -- Who saw this coming? Cambridge Dictionary has named Parasocial as the Word of the Year for 2025. It defines the term as "involving or relating to a connection that someone feels betw... Read More


word of the year

Mumbai, Nov. 19 -- Who saw this coming? Cambridge Dictionary has named Parasocial as the Word of the Year for 2025. It defines the term as "involving or relating to a connection that someone feels bet... Read More


word of the year

Mumbai, Nov. 19 -- Who saw this coming? Cambridge Dictionary has named Parasocial as the Word of the Year for 2025. It defines the term as "involving or relating to a connection that someone feels bet... Read More


The unrequited loves of fandoms: Cambridge Dictionary names 'Parasocial' word of 2025

Mumbai, Nov. 19 -- Who saw this coming? Cambridge Dictionary has named Parasocial as the Word of the Year for 2025. It defines the term as "involving or relating to a connection that someone feels bet... Read More


word of the year

Mumbai, Nov. 19 -- Who saw this coming? Cambridge Dictionary has named Parasocial as the Word of the Year for 2025. It defines the term as "involving or relating to a connection that someone feels bet... Read More


Travel special: Almaty in Kazakhstan is one of the world's last secrets

India, Oct. 31 -- For Kazakhstan, don't listen to the influencers. The ones who've travelled there from India tend to be young, penniless students, making the most of the rupee's advantage over the te... Read More