It’s not surprising that most outside academic circles in India don’t know why Deaton deserved the Nobel. That’s also ironic, because a large part of his work is about India and Indians.

Indian Express explains the issues in the unprecedented rebellion by the cream of India’s literary talent, and who this firestorm might end up singeing.

Given the fact that the Sanstha has been “espousing the cause of Hindutva”, the BJP’s difficulty in criticising it is obvious.

The Army has an Officers’ Training Academy (OTA) in Gaya for commissioning short service officers, apart from the older OTA in Chennai, and the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Tesla Motors plant in San Jose during his US tour last month, the company’s CEO Elon musk introduced him to its line of renewable energy tech. The PM was shown the Powerwall, and he later tweeted about “how battery technology can help farmers”. The Powerwall is a wall-mountable […]

Ahead of a book launch of the former Pakistan foreign minister, Sudheendra Kulkarni, the organiser was assaulted by Shiv Sena activists.

Jawaharlal Nehru conveyed to Nikita Khrushchev that scuttling Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize was an injustice that would hurt the USSR’s standing.

Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity has stopped adoption services at its homes over new rules that allow adoption by single parents. The guidelines hurt their conscience, and are not for religious people, the Missionaries have said.

The loud calls the birds make could be a way to share information with the rest of their group, the authors say.

If all goes according to plan, the memorial, along with a war museum, will come up at Princess Park near India Gate in the next five years.

Alexievich, 67, becomes the 14th woman to win the Literature prize since it was first awarded in 1901. The last woman to win was Canada’s Alice Munro in 2013.

Launched in 2009 as a pet project by the Congress-led UPA government, Aadhaar provides a unique 12-digit identity number based on biometrics to every resident of India.

Although the deal has been termed a potential “diplomatic blockbuster”, its inherent contradictions may make it difficult to sell in both the US and Pakistan.

An investigation under the Companies Act was launched against Devas, which, meanwhile, had approached the courts seeking damages for cancellation of the agreement.

Slaughter of the cow and its progeny is banned in most of India; the consumption of their meat is also largely prohibited.

In a few days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the fourth terminal of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, or JNPT, as it is called now.

The World Bank’s new poverty rate estimate of 12.4% does not mean that Indians have suddenly become richer. In fact, it is how you collect data that determines the poverty rate. What are the methods in vogue?

The recently-released India Rural Development Report, which is endorsed by the government, says 7% of the rural population is ‘very poor’; villages in eastern Indian states are the worst affected.

Adult worms lodge in lymphatic system and disrupt immune system. Causes abnormal enlargement of body parts, pain, severe disability and social stigma.

Writing in the journal Science, a team at the company’s Thomas J Watson Research Center said it has found a new way to make transistors from parallel rows of carbon nanotubes.

India announced 850 additional soldiers — modest when compared to the 8,000-strong “standby force” China pledged.

The local bodies poll, slated for November 1, would be the first test of this informal coalition of BJP and caste outfits.

In 1985, students of medical and engineering colleges in the state led an agitation against the move by the then Congress Chief Minister, Madhavsinh Solanki, to raise the OBC quota from 10 per cent to 28 per cent.

New Delhi conveyed an easing of the protests to Kathmandu over the weekend, and a degree of normalcy is expected to return this week.