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Cellular memory

India, June 15 -- The lights went out and the maximum-security prison was plunged into the clotted darkness of night. Muffled groans and cries seemed to emanate from 54 narrow cells. Built in 1849, th... Read More


Israel hit Iran's main nuclear facility: IAEA

DUBAI, June 15 -- UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that Israeli strikes destroyed the above-ground section of Iran's main nuclear facility at Natanz.... Read More


A stroll down Jane street

India, June 15 -- Everyone has comfort films or comfort books that bring them joy. I have a set of comfort books or, perhaps more accurately, a comfort author. She wrote only six major novels in her l... Read More


Beauty in the beast: The joys ofDeafheaven's sonic paradox

India, June 15 -- I'll admit it: I'm not typically drawn to the thunderous chaos of metal. This might seem odd coming from someone who has lived for nine years in Finland, a country that produces more... Read More


Is it just me or...

India, June 15 -- It looks different to every person who fights it. In Japan and South Korea, people are so lonely, they may die and not be discovered for days. (In Japan, a country of 124 million, ov... Read More


'As someone put it: Loneliness is laughter... in other places'

India, June 15 -- "What does loneliness sound like?" In 2019, Fay Bound Alberti, a professor of modern history at King's College London, posted the question on X. The answers were evocative. "The wind... Read More


Amid WW1, a hidden spice route

India, June 15 -- On December 24, 1914, amid the bloodshed and chaos of the Great War, peace unexpectedly broke out along the Western Front. Spontaneously and without official sanction, troops on both... Read More


Smooth operator: Cold truths about ice

India, June 15 -- Adding ice to milky drinks used to be a bit of a nightmare. The temperature differences caused the fats to solidify and drift about unappetisingly. As the cubes melted, the beverage ... Read More


Master of disguise

India, June 15 -- In some ways, he is himself the stuff of science-fiction. For thousands of years, dating to ancient Greek and Welsh myths, then sci-fi and the worlds of HG Wells and Harry Potter, st... Read More


Father's Day special| Rakul Preet Singh: My dad's time in the Indian Army made me strong emotionally

India, June 15 -- Rakul Preet Singh's entire life has been shaped by the fact that she is an Army kid. Her father Col (Veteran) Kulvinder Singh served in the Regiment of Artillery, the Arm which fires... Read More