In its ambitious plans for “smart cities,” the Indian government has envisioned inclusive metropolises (pdf) with housing for all, reduced congestion, and better infrastructure. At the moment, though, all this seems like a distant dream, especially for the millions of informal workers who struggle to make their living in India’s overcrowded and hazardous big cities.
Behind the scenes at this week’s historic meeting between US president Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore, a formidable paramilitary force will be standing guard.
Last week, Karthik Nemmani from Texas won America’s fiercely competitive Scripps National Spelling Bee, capping it with “koinonia,” a word many are unlikely to have ever heard. The 14-year-old was the 18th Indian-American to have won the annual competition in the last 20 years—a trend that’s mystified viewers.
Bengaluru, Karnataka
Mumbai is bracing for its annual tryst with the monsoon—and indications are that it could relive the catastrophic 2005 flooding this weekend.
Policy-making in India has for long been dominated by men.
Over five years after two Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) graduates set up Ather Energy to build India’s first smart electric scooter, the Ather 340 is finally ready to hit the road.
The Indian government is out to prove once and for all what colour the iconic Taj Mahal is.
With every year, India receives more proof that the effects of climate change are already here, and they’re deadly.
There seems to be no respite for Indians from deadly weather conditions.
Tourists visiting the Taj Mahal or Red Fort will now no longer need to wait in long lines for tickets.
One of India’s most popular hill stations is wilting in the middle of peak tourist season.
For a country in the midst of a porn boom, the conversation about online sexual content and its consumption remains incredibly one-sided. In conservative India, which has tried many times to ban pornographic websites, they’re often viewed as something only men seek out; the desires of straight women or members of the LGBTQ community are rarely considered at all.
The Nipah virus outbreak in southern India this week has prompted the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a global alliance of governments and non-profits, to step up efforts to find a cure for the deadly disease.
The port town of Thoothukudi in southern Tamil Nadu, home to India’s largest copper smelter, is today the site of much violence and anger.
The deadly and persistent heatwaves sweeping the Indian subcontinent over the past few weeks have now hit New Delhi.
The newly-elected Malaysian government has appointed the southeast Asian country’s first ever Sikh minister.
At least five people have died over the past two weeks in the southern Indian state of Kerala after contracting the rare Nipah virus. The condition of nine others is said to be critical.
In 2006, the Melbourne-based documentary filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe was given a newspaper clipping by his Indian research assistant. Spotted by the girl’s father, who knew Ben-Moshe was Jewish, it was an obituary for a veteran Indian actress who had made her name playing the vamp in Bollywood movies of the 1950s and 1960s. Ben-Moshe was shocked to discover that the woman known by her stage name Nadira was born Florence Ezekiel in Israel, and that she was Jewish.
Hundreds of thousands of young Indian girls are dying from neglect.
Over the past few weeks, villagers in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district have been living in fear, terrorised by packs of deadly dogs.
Extreme weather is once again wreaking havoc across India.
Over the past few months, parts of India have been burning up.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted another week of extreme weather across the country.
