Zarina Sodha, from Lakhpath Kachchh, Gujarat (western India), a folk singer.
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Passionate musicians in Western India are committed to “break down the walls” of hate built by opportunistic politics between religious communities.
Some homes in Cape Town are now harvesting rainwater from their roofs.
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Water is increasingly becoming scarce as the climate changes. There are four changes that cities can make to adapt to water scarcity.
Sikhs in the diaspora.
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The case of Jagtar Singh Johal has mobilised the Sikh diaspora.
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A history of Ayurvedic medical concepts is being exhibited at London’s Wellcome Collection.
Indian forces in North Africa during World War II.
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Letters home reveal what is was like to be an Indian soldier in World War II.
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A new study provides a more nuanced understanding of the role food plays in healthy eating and family life.
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Humans aren’t alone in wanting to take revenge – some animals like to get their own back too.
Echis , also known as the saw-scaled viper, dominates snakebite statistics and kills more people annually than any other.
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Indian-made antivenoms, common throughout Africa because they are affordable, showed little-to-no neutralisation of the African Echis venoms.
Orakzai tribesmen on their way to fight in Kashmir, 1947.
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Claimed by both India and Pakistan ever since the British left, Kashmir is still caught in the crossfire.
Bangalore has a long lasting love history with nature.
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The population of India’s IT hub, Bangalore, grew for centuries because of nature, not despite it – a lesson that could give hope for the future of our modern cities.
A first-time surrogate mother in Anand, India, 2013.
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Surrogate mothers in developing countries are being shuffled across borders to evade a crackdown on the industry. This emerging gray market puts women at risk.
Indonesia should start a nationwide movement to combat digital illiteracy, a hidden inequality that persists in much of the country.
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Indonesia has a lot of catching up to do to provide its people with skills, including digital literacy, to find jobs in a shifting landscape propelled by innovation in digital technology.
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India’s laissez-faire attitude to drug regulation is a serious threat to global efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
A woman from a Rohingya family, in the makeshift provided by a NGO Zakat Foundation of India near Madanpur Khadar, New Delhi.
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What effect does India’s legal precariousness and lack of institutionalised support have on the ground? Most refugee groups have to rely on themselves.
The lack of awareness of this growing problem is a big issue.
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Breast cancer could kill 76,000 Indian women a year by 20220, according to new research.
Toilets, Varanasi.
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Cultural, social and environmental factors all matter if India wants to succeed in its goal to boost sanitation.
Maratha Kranti Morcha, a rallye for Marathi castes demanding respect of their rights in Mumbai last year.
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India is not able to do away with its caste politics. It has been apparent in the dramatic turn of Narendra Modi’s regime to woo lower castes through multiple policy measures.
Electric cars will shake up everything from jobs to tax.
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Governments racing to grab a lead in the global quest to position their countries for the car industry of the future.
India boasts strong research expertise and technological and pharmaceutical capacity, yet lacks strong financial and political commitment from the government - to end the tuberculosis epidemic.
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India has a radical new plan to eliminate TB, backed by research and technological expertise. The country just needs strong financial and political commitment from government to implement it.
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.