A girl takes a close look at the world’s first artificial.
satellite, the Soviet-made Sputnik I.
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Our fascination with space shows no signs of slowing down, 60 years after the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik.
A controversial article in a respected academic journal recently made the argument for colonialism. Here, a man is carried by Congolese men in a photo from the early 20th centiry.
An academic article that asserted the benefits of colonialism caused an outcry and resulted in calls for its removal. A post-colonial expert explains why.
Lessons learnt from a flooding in the Indian state of Odisha has helped reduce casualties.
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There is increasing evidence from across many African and South Asian countries that contextual, timely climate information, helps farmers manage the risks they face.
Bakhshali manuscript.
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High school students can blame ancient India for quadratic equations and calculus.
Brazilian President Temer, Russian President Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, South Africa’s President Zuma and Indian Prime Minister Modi.
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The promise of BRICS was that it would usher in a new approach to development. But after meeting annually for the last nine years there’s no sign that the old order has been challenged.
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The world has much to learn from the maturity, restraint and negotiation skills of one small country facing two superpowers
Women activists from Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan and Muslims for Secular Democracy protest against the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and their clerics, October 2016.
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The abolition of ‘instant divorce’ practice in India highlights how Muslim women are successfully and progressively changing gender rights.
Indian women protested against ‘instant divorce’, a practice that has been ruled unconstitutional by India’s Supreme court.
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What are the implications of the ‘instant divorce’ ban in India? Will it provoke a wider re-evaluation of India’s Muslim family laws, that affect millions of women?
Human rights groups condemned the Indian government’s intention to deport around 40,000 refugees of the Rohingya Muslim minority, who had fled to India from Myanmar.
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The recent move by Modi’s government to deport Rohingyas from India reveals the religious based-discrimination at the heart of the country’s refugee policies.
Mumbai rains flooded the city for a week, leaving thousands helpless while building collapsed killing dozens on August 31th.
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Flooding in India’s main financial hub is a reminder that urban growth has to work with nature.
A Rainbow Pride march at Chandannagar, north of Calcutta in early 2017.
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Section 377, which criminalises homosexuality, could finally be relegated to the history books.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a self-styled Indian guru, was convicted and sentenced for the rape of two of his female followers.
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The Dera Sacha Sauda episode has several important questions, mostly related to the crisis of spirituality and modernity in India today.
Eugenia uniflora (flowers and young red leaves) a native Brazilian species, now invasive in Hawaii.
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For mapping patterns of plant invasion from the sky, understanding plant behaviour on the ground and using it along with remote sensing cameras, is crucial.
The leaders of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa alliance.
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The sub-imperial formation called BRICS, which pretends to be a progressive global force could be divided by a series of crises.
A baby suffering from dehydration cries after being rescued from a flooded village in the eastern state of Bihar, India.
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Nepal has blamed India for exacerbating intense monsoon flooding that has killed at least 1,200 people in the last two months.
Drilling a groundwater well by hand, near Lahore, July 2017.
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Millions of livelihoods depend on the Indus Basin aquifer.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arriving to the Red Fort, New Delhi, India.
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India’s institutional architecture is been trampled over by the BJP in its attempt to get the better of its political rivals.
Assumptions, authoritarianism and errors are just a few of the ways in which the world could be confronted by a nuclear disaster, physicist and disarmament expert MV Ramana suggests in his book reviews.
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A nuclear physicist and disarmament expert recommends reading on nuclear disasters, weapons, authoritarianism and climate change.
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Faced with a massive food production shortfall, Africa can look towards India’s Green Revolution to jump start its agricultural output.
India’s tricolour (which actually has four colours) hides a complex subaltern history that originates with Mahatma Gandhi.
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As India celebrates its independence, the flag is on full display, but few people know about the complex origins of this ubiquitous national symbol.