In Goa, blessing for the first sheaves of rice is sought from St Bartholomew — one of the two disciples of Christ who visited India and had a farming...

Narrow categorisation of mass criminality may have produced a moral hierarchy that classifies some conflicts as ‘genocide’ and others as ‘crimes...

Use of Project Tiger and CAMPA funds to finance the cheetah project, as confirmed in the Parliament, could potentially dilute their original purpose

Several caste groups have tried to claim Neeraj Chopra as their own ever since he won the gold medal; the cancer of caste is alive and kicking

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...

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...