In a land as diverse as India, the story of its cuisine is as intricate as its culture. Yet, persistent myths often cloud our understanding of its history.
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with Pankaj Chaudhary and full budget team during giving final touches to the Union Budget, in New Delhi, Monday, July 22, 2024. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan)(PTI07_22_2024_000234B) (PTI)
New Delhi, India - The government has partnered the private sector effectively to generate jobs (Photo by Sanchit Khanna/ Hindustan Times) (Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)
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Indian Muslim students wearing burqas leave Mahatma Gandhi Memorial college after they were denied entry into the campus in Udupi, Karnataka state, India, February. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
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Pune, July 21 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders during the first session of Maharashtra BJP State Convention addressed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, at Balewadi in Pune on Sunday. (ANI Photo)
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Varanasi, Jul 19 (ANI): Kanwariyas (Shiva devotees) carrying metal pots filled with water from the River Ganga during their annual Kanwar Yatra, in Varanasi on Friday. (ANI Photo)
FILE PHOTO: Customers look at a window display congratulating Canadian author Alice Munro at bookstore Munro's Books after she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in Victoria, British Columbia October 10, 2013. REUTERS/Andy Clark/File Photo (REUTERS)
In privatised childcare, there are still outdated curricula and meals lacking nutrition. Here, there is a need for government to set the guardrails and encourage further innovation and growth. (Photo by Raj K Raj/ Hindustan Times) (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
Iran's newly-elected President Masoud Pezeshkian (C) waves to supporters as he visits the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran on July 6, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (AFP)
Doda, Jun 13 (ANI): The Indian Army conducts a search operation in the dense forests of different districts to track down and neutralise terrorists after a Special Police officer was injured in exchange of fire with terrorists in the Gandoh area, in Doda on Thursday. (ANI Photo) (ANI)
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami with others holds a copy of the Constitution of India, at Vidhan Sabha Bhawan, in Dehradun, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024 (PTI)
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The Emergency was the darkest chapter in post-independence India’s history when an elected Congress government suspended civil rights, jailed the parliamentary opposition and even suspended elections.
India could help sustain populations in many other countries through immigration of its young to the deficit regions (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) (AP)
TOPSHOT - Parliamentarians of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, carry posters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, during a protest outside the Parliament house in Islamabad on July 18, 2024. Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP) (AFP)
Nagaon, Jul 01 (ANI): A herd of Deer cross a National Highway at the flood affected Kaziranga National Park near Burapahar range, in Nagaon on Monday. (ANI Photo) (Anuwar Hazarika)
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Prayagraj, May 20 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a mace during a public meeting for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha Polls, in Prayagraj on Tuesday. Uttar Pradesh Dy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya also present. Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and BJP allies Sanjay Nishad, Om Prakash Rajbhar and Anupriya Patel are believed to have indirectly targeted chief minister Yogi Adityanath (ANI Photo)
The National War Memorial, as a new entity, also has redefined the authorised rituals associated with national festivities.. (HT PHOTO/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)
India had 53 million-plus cities (or urban agglomerations (UAs), defined as a continuous urban spread constituting one or more towns and their adjoining outgrowths). (HT File/ For Representation)
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DALLAS, TEXAS - MAY 17: An attendee walks by guns displayed in the Daniel Defense booth during the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting & Exhibits at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on May 17, 2024 in Dallas, Texas.
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee with party candidates Saugata Roy and Sayantika Banerjee during a road show for Assembly bypolls, in Kolkata, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (PTI Photo) (PTI)
FILE PHOTO: A worker checks sift joints used for cement filtration at its manufacturing factory in the industrial area of Kolkata June 12, 2012. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)/File Photo (REUTERS)
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Antibiotics are crucial for treating bacterial infections, but since they do not discriminate between harmful and harmless bacteria, they can also disrupt the balance of our microbiome.
