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Ross Ulbricht, who created Silk Road, a dark web market that used Bitcoin to facilitate millions of dollars in drug sales, takes the stage to speak at Bitcoin 2025, a cryptocurrency convention at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, May 29, 2025. (Gabriela Bhaskar/ The New York Times)

The spectacular comeback tour of a crypto overlord

September 08, 2025 9:36 am

As the creator of Silk Road, a dark web market that used bitcoin to facilitate millions of dollars in sales of heroin, cocaine and other drugs, he had been sentenced to life in prison in 2015 without the possibility of parole.

An old stone path in Sichuan (left) and porters carrying tea in China in 1908.

How the historic Tea Horse Road connected India to China, through Tibet

February 25, 2025 10:02 am

Although not as well-known as the Silk Road, which linked China and Europe, the Tea Horse Road was a crucial commercial pathway for centuries

The Silk Road Coffee Company, a roastery and bakehouse that opens to the public on Monday (October 21), now occupies an expansive 3,500 sq ft space spread across two floors.

Around Town: Inside Silk Road Coffee Company, an oasis of calm and perfect brews in Mumbai’s Aram Nagar

October 19, 2024 1:37 pm

Spread across 3,500 sq ft, the Silk Road Coffee Company features a Slayer coffee machine, enabling baristas to control the water flow and pressure during extraction, thereby enhancing the flavour profiles

William Dalrymple Explains | The ancient history behind the maritime trade route between India and Europe

September 14, 2023 5:39 am

As the G20 announces a pathbreaking economic corridor between India and Europe, here's what we know about its predecessor — the ancient Red Sea trade route, much bigger and historically more significant than the overland route from China.

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French textile artist Moulin moots for globalisation of Indian silk

April 10, 2022 4:14 pm

The silk expert, who is visiting India to promote bilateral cooperation between India and France around design and textile with an emphasis on silk, discussed Murshidabad's silk heritage

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New Silk Road critics are 'prejudiced', China's top diplomat says

March 30, 2019 10:58 am

Speaking to the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, Yang Jiechi, who runs the party's foreign affairs committee, said he had noted that some in the international community believed this was a geopolitical tool and would only bring debt traps for participating countries.