As the European Union gets set to pronounce whether to give a GI tag to India’s Basmati rice, we explore the history of a grain that transcends human boundaries

For many in the academic world, this is still a pseudoscience, not to be taken seriously

India and Nepal must pool in their efforts to preserve the freshwater fish stocks in Ganga and its tributaries

The Numaligarh Refinery’s wall lay in the path of the elephant corridor. Deopahar is notified as reserve forest after 20 years

There has been a rise in global incidents of indigenous activists being killed – in India, the exploitation manifests in a different form

While John Chau’s body will definitely give out pathogens, whether or not the Sentinelese are susceptible to them is yet unknown

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s suggestion for a new Parliament building has opened the Pandora’s Box. The existing 88-year-old structure is...

When the British colonised Australia in 1788, they restricted their settlements to the coast. As colonies expanded into the interior, the authorities...

As the controversy over whether the  “Tiger of Mysore” Tipu Sultan was an Islamic iconoclast or secular nationalist rages on in India, it is time for...

On April 21, when Manhattan Supreme Court judge Barbara Jaffe allowed Hercules and Leo to defend their rights against unlawful imprisonment, it...

In earlier head transplant experiments like the one by Robert White (in 1970), the immune system rejected the transplanted tissue. What do you intend t...

Why did you decide to translate the Jatakamala?There are 540 Jataka tales in the Buddhist canon. While most of the stories are in Pali, some are in San...