As the Kerala government threw a shindig on Nov 1 in its capital city, Thiruvananthapuram, to announce it had eradicated ...

Every Sunday, Mahesh Beck plays field hockey on a dry patch of land near his village in eastern India. Yet he had not heard ...

Clean water had just started sputtering from newly installed taps in Pachdongri village in western India last month when the ...

As Indian parliamentary elections approach, politicians’ promises resting on uplifting economic status of the poor will get more assertive and aggressive. As these promises become louder, headlines ...

The BJP is currently the largest party in the 243-seat state legislature and hopes its National Democratic Alliance, which ...

I ndians like to call elections a “dance of democracy”. But in Bihar, India’s poorest state, the build-up to state-assembly ...

In a land where labour is cheap, the man who drives the most luxury cars is not a billionaire. He is a parking attendant. On a meagre salary, he must park, double-park and triple-park cars in tight ...

Shammi Shukla teaches Hindu hymns to students, sitting beside photos of Hindu deities in Mishrikh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Credit: Tarushi Aswani Subscribe for ads-free reading On a scorching afternoon ...

New Delhi (CNN) — The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. “We were so frightened,” ...

KADAPA, India (RNS) — A village of just 250 families put up a clear warning to non-Hindus wanting to enter. KADAPA, India (RNS) — A decade ago the residents of Kesalingayapalli, a village in the south ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will oppose any curbs on its subsidies to poor fishermen at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and demand a moratorium on fishing subsidies from advanced countries ...