This week, prime minister Narendra Modi’s government will present its last budget before the country’s national elections, and it is under pressure to address Indians’ most pressing concerns.
On Jan. 25 this year, the Indian government awarded 94 people (pdf) the Padma Shri, the country’s fourth-highest civilian honour. And the upcoming national elections might have had something to do with that number.
The story of the Real Kashmir Football Club (RKFC), the first team from the state to compete in the I-League, begins with a 1,000 footballs.
One of the world’s largest employers is now looking for even more recruits.
Several Indian states are facing another deadly outbreak of H1N1 influenza, otherwise known as swine flu.
Several popular video-streaming platforms, including Netflix and Hotstar, have signed a code of best practices under which they will censor certain content in India.
The average temperature in India was “significantly above normal” in 2018, says its weather department.
The world’s largest religious festival is kicking off today (Jan. 15) in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Around 65 years after it was established by the Indian government, the country’s national body of letters, the Sahitya Akademi, is going online to boost sales of its books published in 24 languages.
Who was here first? That question is at the heart of the prevailing political narrative in India that looks to define the country as the true home of only one particular type of citizen.
Home prices have fallen for the second consecutive year in India’s financial capital, Mumbai.
For two days, millions of workers are going on a strike against the Narendra Modi government in India.
A southern Indian state is in deep turmoil over women of menstruating age.
An investigation by the news agency AP has revealed the shocking extent of sexual assault and abuse of nuns within the Catholic Church in Kerala, India.
Two persons in India made history today (Jan. 02) by entering a temple long forbidden for women of menstruating age.
For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, art was one of the only ways to document life in Mughal-era and then colonial India.
This year, Quartz India wrote about a lot of books, including a biography of a forgotten Mughal empress, a history of Indian street magic, and a riveting account of antiquities theft. But the editors and reporters read just as many books, too.
On Dec. 13, at least 15 Indian workers went down an illegal “rat hole” coal mine in the Jaintia Hills district of the northeastern state of Meghalaya. Around two weeks later, they are yet to make it out safely after having reportedly struck an underground water source that flooded the 370-feet-deep mine.
This week, Delhi residents are battling toxic air once again.
As Christmas Eve approaches, the festive spirit is spreading across India.
2018 was a big year for gender rights in India.
From freak dust storms to the once-in-a-century Kerala floods, Indian states were battered by extreme weather throughout 2018.
India’s escalating man-animal conflict is leaving its elephants with no safe home.
Generations of Indians, before the 1990s, relied on the mechanical watches of the Bengaluru-based HMT company to tell the time.
