Nashra Balagamwala's game highlights the pressures faced by girls and women being pressured to enter an arranged marriage
LONDON, July 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Nashra Balagamwala's Pa
Smartphones help classes continue as schools remain closed, but the poorest families are struggling to keep up
MUMBAI, July 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kuldip Kumar, a farmer from northern India, sol
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Captain Vijayant Thapar of 2 Rajputana Rifles was awarded a Vir Chakra, the nations third highest medal for gallantry for having fought bravely the crucial battles of Tololing and Knol
BY FAKIR BALAJI
Bengaluru, July 26 (IANS) With no sign of the pandemic flattening the curve, as evident from the daily surge in positive cases across the country, Bengaluru-based eminent pediatric cardiolo
New Delhi/Ladakh, July 25 (IANS) A month and a half after the violent face-off with Indian soldiers along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, Chinese troops have disengaged but built and retained severa
BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) He was one of the early architects of global anti-colonialism, a co-founder of the Indian National Congress that he headed thrice and the first Asian to
BY SUKANT DEEPAK
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) No leaders or political parties. No questions asked when people wanted to join. She says it was almost like visiting someone's home -- local women coming
RAIPUR JATTAN, India/SINGAPORE, July 23 (Reuters) - For more than two decades, Indian farmer Ravindra Kajal cultivated rice the way his forefathers had - every June he flooded his fields with water before
United Nations, July 23 (IANS) The COVID-19 pandemic has made the crisis in early childhood development worse, with more than 40 million children worldwide missing education in critical pre-school years, said a
BY SUKANT DEEPAK
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The conversation starts with the quote she once used in her work -- "Who is not a refugee". The Baroda-based artist, Nilima Sheikh insists we all
BY BRIJ KHANDELWAL
Agra, July 20(IANS) Women in the modern era are comparatively safer, better empowered and they enjoy a more dignified life than women during the days of 'rajas and maharajas
July 19 (PTI): When Ruskin Bond told his mother that he wanted to be a writer, she laughed saying with his good handwriting he could only be a clerk in a lawyer's office.
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BY ARCHANA SHARMA
Jaipur, July 18 (IANS) Amid the Covid-19 pandemic when educational institutions are shut and are striving to complete courses online, Rajasthan schools are traumatising parents and stude
As countries bolster economies battered by the pandemic, more land may be privatised
WASHINGTON, July 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From forced displacement to conflict over resources, the coro
Housing and land insecurity make it harder for people to plan for the future, hampering economic growth
LONDON, July 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost one billion people around the world fear
BY SHARON THAMBALA
Bengaluru, July 15 (IANS) At a time when the world is reeling under the COVID-19 health catastrophe, city-based bio-pharmaceutical major Biocon has received the approval of the Dru
Countries trying to boost economic growth are privatising land and other resources, uprooting rural and indigenous communities
BANGKOK, July 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A push to privatise land
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) More than one third of respondents to a snap poll feel that the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan will collapse and the BJP will return in the state, as per IANS CVoter
BY TAPONEEL MUKHERJEE
IANS | July 12
The last decade has seen rapid digitisation. However, the last three months have seen the pace of digitisation accelerate rapidly. Even as the world adjusts to a new n
BY LT GEN CHERISH MATHSON
New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) A resolute, unruffled leadership and India's multi-pronged, hard stance, from the borders to financial markets, has forced China to tone down i