While more young women are enrolled in higher education than ever before -- and apparently more successful in clearing 10th-standard board exams than young men -- they are either marrying early or not finding or not looking for jobs, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of various data. ...
Politics has never been kind in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous and electorally the most crucial state. There have been instances in the past when lawmakers have shamed the voters by their conduct....
You know, I really regret not ever talking about it (his mother, Princess Diana's death)," Prince Harry told the former England football captain Rio Ferdinand, BBC reported. ...
Genomic analysis of the Jarawas and Onge tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar islands has yielded "strong" evidence of existence of a new ancestor of humans, according to an international team of researchers....
Warning of "serious consequences" over the expulsion of three Chinese journalists by India, a state-owned daily urged Beijing to make "a few Indians" feel the pain over Chinese visas....
Born to a Bengali father and Dutch mother, American fashion designer Rachel Roy, whose client list includes the likes of Michelle Obama and Penélope Cruz, is proud of her Indian heritage, and says India has influenced her work in many ways, especially the colours and prints in her designs....
English speakers have long had an advantage for there are few classics from other literary traditions which are not available in the language. Translations of Homer, Rumi, Cervantes, Goethe, Pushkin, Dumas, Tolstoy, Kafka, and many others are so prevalent that it is easy to forget that these originally come from di...
An Indian artist in Paris -- an Indian artist who decided he would explore the rudiments of plastic art, a gentleman who was subtle and every bit an arts connoisseur, a voracious reader, a writer, a thinker, an aesthetic being -- how much can one say of Sayed Haider Raza, who died in New Delhi on Saturday aged 94?...
First, its ministers -- Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya -- maliciously targeted supporters of the Ambedkar Students' Association in the University of Hyderabad, leading to the suicide of a bright young student, Rohith Vemula. ...
As violent protests continue in the Prime Minister’s home state of Gujarat over the flogging of Dalit youth by upper-caste Hindu vigilantes, an IndiaSpend analysis reveals a conviction rate six times lower than the Indian average -- over 10 years -- for crimes against scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs)....
