Hindutva’s war on names

Aiza Azam | Recent renaming of the historic city of Allahabad, a metropolitan center in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, has stirred up...

Polluted Delhi air akin to death sentence, say doctors

AFP | Yogesh Kumar wheezes after life-saving surgery to remove a diseased lung, but his surgeons wonder how long he can last outside hospital breathing...

Man-eating tiger shot dead in India after massive hunt

AFP | A man-eating tiger that claimed more than a dozen victims in two years has been shot dead in India, sparking controversy over the...

Indian law college to teach Harry Potter

AFP | A die-hard Harry Potter fan has designed a spellbinding course for aspiring lawyers in India, offering classes on the legality of curses and...

Oppressed Kashmiris and the right of self-determination

Abdul Rasool Syed | Like every year, the people of Kashmir marked 27th October as a black day. On this very fateful day in 1947,...

Suspected separatists shoot dead five in Indian state

AFP | Suspected separatist gunmen on Thursday shot dead five people they singled out in an Indian village where ethnic tensions are simmering over a...

Indian Supreme Court wants Modi government to come clean about alleged Rafale Scandal

News Analysis | During proceeding of a petition filed in the Indian Supreme Court against the alleged corruption in the $8.7 billion worth Rafale jet...

Indian Cricket legend urges PM Khan to restore India-Pakistan Test links

AFP | India great Farokh Engineer has called on former Pakistan captain turned Prime Minister Imran Khan to use his political clout to help restore...

Malawi court halts ‘racist’ Gandhi statue plan

AFP | Campaigners in Malawi won an injunction on Wednesday to temporarily halt work on a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the commercial capital as...

‘Toilet-deficient’ India unveils the world’s tallest statue

News Desk | India has unveiled the world's tallest statue, which cost 29.9bn rupees (£330m; $430m) to build. The 182m (600ft) high structure in the...

Sonali Bendre fighting cancer courageously and successfully

News Desk | Bollywood's veteran actress Sonali Bendre is swiftly recovering from cancer. Her friend and actress Namrata Shirodkar informed in her latest interview. She informed...

Nationwide protests in India over police agency turmoil

AFP | India's main opposition staged nationwide protests Friday, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of removing the head of the premier investigation agency in order...