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What does the biggest gathering of humanity on Earth have to do with antibiotics? Quite a bit, evidently. Researchers from US-based institutes,...
In his 1974 novel Tamas (Darkness), a vivid portrayal of the bloody partition of India, author Bhisham Sahni vividly depicts the atmosphere changing...
What happens when India bans exports of a food staple that is essential to the diets of billions around the world? On 20 July, India banned exports...
As education and job opportunities for men in India have improved over the decades, the prevalence of dowry has increased, a new study has found. ...
In December 1829, Lord William Bentinck, the first governor general of British-ruled India, banned sati, the ancient Hindu practice of a widow...
At the end of the final reading of India's constitution on 25 November 1949, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, one of India's greatest statesmen and the undisputed...
In mid-February, a daily wage worker died in a hospital in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, days after he was picked up by the police in...
This video can not be played The Zomato, Swiggy riders risking their lives to deliver food In Zwigato, a new film, India's best-known comedian Kapil...
Two years ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced ambitious plans to make India a green energy colossus. He pledged cutting emissions to...
Last year a woman in India's northern state of Bihar was told her daughter's rapist had died and the case against him closed. She questioned the claim...
With more than a billion users, India boasts the world's second largest mobile phone market. Yet, internet growth in this vast market appears to have...
Violence has moved to the "centre stage of Indian public life", Thomas Blom Hansen, an anthropologist at Stanford University, argued two years ago. ...