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The news media provide a very particular case study of gender discrimination.
India’s microlending programs, meant to help poor women get out of poverty, have become another point of caste discrimination
From space agency missions to private space launches, 2023 will be an exciting year in space.
Market-led microcredit innovations dominated by profit maximisation can harm the very vulnerable.
On the border between India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans suffer from overexploitation and rising sea levels. With a “Climate Wall” project, a virtual museum is raising awareness and increasing resiliency.
Amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, spiralling inflation and energy shortages, tackling climate change has been central to the recovery plans of the world’s biggest economies.
An expert on international education explains the forces behind the drop in students from China and the jump in students from India studying in the US.
Stricter population controls in India could have disastrous consequences for women and minority communities.
India’s drug regulation is loose and results in dangerous medicines being sold at home and abroad.
This year’s climate talks have been overshadowed by rising international tensions, energy crises and war. But that doesn’t mean climate action is dead.
Overnight, Chinese people found themselves classed as “aliens” in India, which for some was the only country they’d ever known. But worse, many were detained for up to five years.
Facing human threats, Mumbai’s Koli community are taking risk reduction into their own hands – other vulnerable coastal settlements should take note.
One of the world’s largest solar farms was meant to lift poor communities up. But instead it produced winners and losers.
Gregory David Roberts’ best-selling 2003 novel has been adapted for TV. But its depiction of India and Indians brims with Orientalist, white saviour stereotypes.
Global estimates of modern-day slavery by the United Nations reveal improving methods for calculating the data.
Economic growth picked up significantly for both India and Pakistan after independence, but they’ve chosen very different paths since.
Despite portraying sex workers as agents of social change, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ presents sex workers as worthy victims because they didn’t choose their disreputable fates.
As water dripped in a remote cave, it left behind evidence of every monsoon season for a millennium. Scientists say it holds a warning for a country about to become the most populous on Earth.
A climate scientist explains the forces behind the summer’s extreme downpours and dangerous heat waves, and why new locations will be at risk in the coming year.
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