All objects are made of one hundred percent genuine ivory,” says the shopkeeper at Ming Hing Arts showroom in Hong Kong’s Kowloon locality. Hong Kong...

Manoj Kumar should know the national capital’s dirty little secret. Where does the excreta of its residents not connected to the sewer system go? He...

An estimated 422 million adults were living with diabetes in 2014, compared to 108 million in 1980. The prevalence of diabetes in the adult population...

Like the Jats in Haryana, farming communities across the country are pinning their hopes on government jobs for a bright future. In fact, the demand...

The Jats are a formidable community in Haryana. The expanse of their green crops extending as far as the eye can see reinforces their formidability...

On February 29, Union Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley will present the third budget of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. And the...

The world is in the throes of yet another infectious disease outbreak. A report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on February 5 says...

Hundred years after Albert Einstein’s prediction of the presence of gravitational waves in his Theory of Relativity, a team of scientists from 15...

The cumulative impact of human activities have pushed the oceans’ carrying capacity almost to its limit, according to “The First Global Integrated...

Kerala, which has been facing a labour shortage in agriculture for a long time because of its distinct socio-economic status, is sustaining...

India’s agriculture labour market is in a state of flux. Going by the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO’S) periodic surveys, 34 million workers...

We can start 2016 on a cheery note. We can celebrate a victory that cuts through the smoke, literally, of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and the...