Criminal gangs who use slave labour are often involved in deforestation or pollution.
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Saving the world’s forests and oceans means putting an end to slavery run by criminal gangs.
Modi rallies the troops in Assam.
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Four Indian states will soon decide just how strong Narendra Modi’s government will be.
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Don’t assume a UK outside of the EU will be able to rewrite its trade deal with India.
Srinivasa Ramanujan (middle) with fellow scientists at Cambridge.
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The unlikely friendship that allowed an untrained Indian mathematician to become an acclaimed academic.
An altercation between protesters broke out at Wits University with men attacking women.
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A violent attack on a female student at one of South Africa’s prominent universities was not an isolated incident. It told a universal tale of how patriarchy still rules.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hits the street with cleaners to promote Swachh Bharat.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to bring 1.5 million toilets to the 600 million Indians without access by 2019. If he fails that could prove dangerous in an election year.
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Indigo, pink, saffron: colour for India isn’t just for throwing. It’s political, too.
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There’s an old joke about Brazil that suggests that it’s the country of the future – and it always will be. For a while this looked to be an anachronistic, possibly racist stereotype that had been decisively…
Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva’s development aid programme has fizzled out.
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Lula led an unprecedented shift in the country’s foreign policy towards the global South. He also helped elevate Brazil to the status of a global player. But, six years on, disillusionment reigns.
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How scientists and corporations are plundering the developing world for new substances.
Renewables could be a better answer to India’s power problems.
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A new analysis suggests that, all things considered, renewables are actually better than coal at lifting India’s energy-poor out of poverty.
The flag of the Indian National Congress.
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Hindu nationalists may be in government, but they’ll never have a monopoly on India’s civic religion.
A tense start to the year in New Delhi.
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To know India’s future we must first understand Hindu nationalism’s past.
Jat protesters block a national highway.
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Young Indians have been left desperate by an era of jobless growth.
Secular Meat, 2016, Sajan Mani.
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Faced with fake history, Indian artists are digging up the past.
Students at Jawaharlal Nehru University protest the arrest of student leader Kanhaiya Kumar.
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Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi has been rocked by protests both opposing and supporting the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar.
India has hit ‘dislike’ on Facebook.
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The decision of an Indian regulator to make Facebook Free Basics illegal saw reason trump propaganda.
The destructive meteor trace that fell on Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013.
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A meteoriticist takes a look at the evidence surrounding a tragic death – and gives her verdict on whether it was caused by a meteorite.
Protests in Bangalore after the suicide of student Rohith Vemula.
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Discrimination is rife – and at the very highest levels.
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India’s smart cities mission is evolving – and it has some issues to iron out, if it’s to work out for the good of all.