David and Elizabeth Weinlick, a Minnesota couple who began their life together through an arranged marriage.
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The two cultural norms, which may on the surface seem completely different, are starting to converge.
People queuing to withdraw cash at an ATM. Demonetisation in India has not met its target and actually reinforced informal networks.
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Instead of a clear movement toward more formalised economic transactions, demonetisation in India has reinforced the informal economy.
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Each discipline tells us only part of the story. And so the truest picture of prehistory comes from triangulating these independent lines of evidence.
Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan during a promotional campaign in India in 2006.
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Bleaching cream companies, with the help of Bollywood male stars are making huge profits.
Women presenting their demands to the elected ward of their district.
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To help ensure that environmental and health services are available in slums, Indian women are asserting their rights thanks to solidarity networks and non-confrontational approaches.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, with World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, right, and Nigerian Health Minister Isaac Folorunso Adewole, at the End TB Summit in New Delhi, India, March 13, 2018.
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On World TB Day 2018, eradicating TB finally looks like a goal that could be met — if political leaders can step up with cash and actions to match their political declarations.
Wild leopards in the Indian city of Mumbai may be helping to save people’s lives.
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Wild leopards that live in an Indian city park like to dine on stray dogs, which new research says may help reduce the number of potentially deadly dog bites on people.
Informal Head Porters carry take their babies with them in Accra’s Kantamanto Market, in Ghana.
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Adequate and quality childcare determines women’s participation in the labour force and the type of work they can take on.
Everybody needs good neighbours.
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With Iran and India on manoeuvres and the war in Yemen still unfolding, Pakistan’s stakes in the Middle East are as high as ever.
Sibling rivalry.
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Ever since partition in 1947, South Asia’s two biggest players have been locked in sibling rivalry.
North Korean cheerleaders support the South Korean men’s ice hockey team in PyeongChang.
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Sometimes diplomacy won the day, sometimes it didn’t.
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Climate change could hurt Indian farmers’ income by up to 20-25% in the medium term.
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It is not the first time that a Bollywood film such as Padmavaat has sparked controversy and tensions among diverse communities in India.
A scene from Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine’s film Quetta-Damghan, almost certainly the only colour footage of the Indian Long Range Squadron in action. The film recently has been digitised by the Royal Geographical Society and the British Film Institute.
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More than 100 historic expeditionary and travel films have been digitised recently by the Royal Geographical Society and the British Film Institute.
A protest to mark the first anniversary of the Delhi gang rape, in New Delhi, 2013.
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Millennial Indian women have been leading a new kind of feminism since the early 2000s.
China is increasingly viewed by the United States as a full-spectrum adversary.
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The contestation of Asia will continue this year, with many countries facing internal and external battles.
Many Americans would be appalled to think that caste might exist in the supposedly meritocratic U.S. But is the country’s persistent, entrenched inequality really so different?
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An Indian scholar makes the case that caste explains inequality in America better than race and class.
Padman starring Akshay Kumar.
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A new Bollywood movie based on the story of an Indian entrepreneur who created affordable sanitary pads is helping to counter myths and taboos around menstruation.
The cancer Kaposi sarcoma. South Africa has large productivity losses because of deaths caused by it.
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Policies encouraging lifestyle changes that reduce the risk of cancer could have positive effects on the economies of BRICS countries.
For many victims of violence, the police are a large part of the problem.
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How our work with Indian police is helping women and girls find justice.