Ananya Bhattacharya

4 days ago | ndtv.com | Ananya Bhattacharya

Under the reign of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran, once America and Israel's closest ally in the Middle East, became their bitterest enemy Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran on February 1, 1979. Photo: Getty Images On March 13, 1978, Iran's omnipotent monarch Mohammad Reza Cyrus Pahlavi received two visitors at his vacation residence on the island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, a few miles off the Iranian coast. These two visitors weren't just anybody.

1 week ago | ndtv.com | Ananya Bhattacharya

Flights are an event in themselves. A flight home, more so. So, sometime last month when I found out I had to go home to North Bengal, the airline of choice was undoubtedly Air India. The national carrier has been a personal favourite all these years, no matter how many air-conditioner vents leaked overhead or how many entertainment systems turned out faulty onboard. Air India is pride. Air India is also marked by a crew that's superhuman.

1 week ago | restofworld.org | Ananya Bhattacharya |Munira Mutaher

India is betting on Chinese technology to keep its electric-vehicle transition on track. At a time when the U.S. is erecting trade barriers to keep Chinese EV giants at bay, India has taken a different course. “Without Chinese tech, India would face supply shortages, delayed rollouts, and reduced product diversity,” Pragathi Darapaneni, senior battery materials scientist and former researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, told Rest of World.

1 week ago | scroll.in | Ananya Bhattacharya

This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West. India has just made it harder for Starlink to enter the market. Around two months after Starlink announced retail partnerships with the country’s leading telecom operators, India – home to the world’s second-largest internet user base – introduced a new set of rules that satellite internet providers must comply with for permission to operate.

1 week ago | ndtv.com | Ananya Bhattacharya

An Air France Concorde taking off from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in 1999. Photo: Getty Images An Air France Concorde, Flight 4590, crashed on July 25, 2000, killing all 109 onboard and 4 on the ground. The Concorde was an Anglo-French supersonic airliner that flew at over Mach 2. The Air France Flight 4590 crash is a chilling throwback to the Air India plane crash of June 12 this year.