Elite athletes hold a special attraction for geneticists. They are the finest specimens of physical performance that can reveal the clues to what...

The International Olympic Committee came close to using a new anti-doping test at Rio. The test is designed to catch the athletes who use genes rather...

Land is an ephemeral presence here. In the low-lying wetlands of south-central Bangladesh surrounded by unstable rivers, vast swathes of land go under...

When the Bombay High Court asked the Maharashtra government’s lawyer why fish, seafood and eggs were not banned during the Jain festival, Paryushan,...

As a young man, Pradeep Yadav saw his father suffer a heart attack, so he was careful. A teetotaller, he would not drink or smoke, and he exercised...

For a month I had been driving my car without the horn. It happened accidentally. My car horn stopped working and I just kept postponing getting it...