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India's cows offer biogas alternative to Mideast energy crunch

India's cows offer biogas alternative to Mideast energy crunch

Across much of India, an energy crunch caused by the Iran war has prompted long queues for cooking gas cyclinders. That's not a problem for Gauri Devi. On a stove with blue flames, she flips a chapati flatbread, burning biogas produced from cow dung -- an alternative fuel helping

Gas shortages push India's poor back to wood and coal

Gas shortages push India's poor back to wood and coal

Soaring black-market prices of cooking gas in India's capital are pushing poorer families back to wood and coal, raising health risks and worsening air quality in the highly polluted megacity. India is the world's second-largest buyer of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), which is used

India's historic haveli homes caught between revival and ruin

India's historic haveli homes caught between revival and ruin

Once the grand residences of Mughal-era nobility, the Indian capital's haveli homes now stand at a fragile crossroads -- a handful lovingly restored but many more sliding quietly into ruin. Across Old Delhi -- the 17th‑century walled city founded as the Mughal capital Shahjahanabad -- cracked facades, shuttered gateways

India moves closer to dengue vaccine as final trials underway

India moves closer to dengue vaccine as final trials underway

As dengue surges globally, an Indian vaccine candidate has entered the final stage of testing, raising hopes for one of the world's first single-dose shots against the deadly mosquito-borne disease. Dengue, which causes severe flu-like symptoms and debilitating body aches, has exploded globally, fuelled by

India chases 'DeepSeek moment' with homegrown AI

India chases 'DeepSeek moment' with homegrown AI

Fledgling Indian artificial intelligence companies showcased homegrown technologies this week at a major summit in New Delhi, underpinning big dreams of becoming a global AI power. But analysts said the country was unlikely to have a "DeepSeek moment" -- the sort of boom China had last year with a