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.
Window of opportunity? A boy watches a protest by India’s Dalits in Ahmedabad.
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India’s former ‘untouchables’ are struggling to make a mark in business – despite some high-profile successes.
Free Basics is only some people’s idea of ‘equality’.
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Free Basics may be free to the user, but it’ll cost India’s economy in the long run.
Over the next 10 years, there is forecast to be 14 million more students studying in India.
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India has invested hugely in to reforming its higher education sector – Australia must view this as an opportunity to capitalise on this growth through partnerships and training schemes.
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Air quality in the Indian capital is so bad that the government has instigated a vehicle ban.