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The use of AI and ‘animal flyovers’ could prevent hundreds of wild elephants dying each year as railways cut through their habitat, say wildlife expertsLying on a mound of soft sand inside the nursery, Bani looks like a spoilt child being indulged. Two…
Read MoreAs an Indian judge says change must start at home, a new movie uses humour to examine family prejudice against children with darker complexionsThree months ago, a high court judge in Chhattisgarh, India, hearing a divorce petition by a husband whose wi…
Read MoreBill Gates and Ivanka Trump among guests expected at pre-wedding party for son of Mukesh Ambani, Anant, and his fiancee Radhika MerchantFor one of India’s richest families, a wedding is not just a wedding – it’s a spectacle designed to dazzle even the …
Read MoreThe campaigner has faced death threats and gone on hunger strike to change laws and bring rapists to justice. She has no plans to stop thereOnce upon a time, Delhi’s Commission for Women was regarded as a toothless, comatose body that few took seriousl…
Read MoreYouTube robotics tutorials helped 17-year turn his concern for his grandmother into a device that alerts carers if Alzheimer’s patients fall or wander offIn the blissful summer that Hemesh Chadalavada spent with his grandmother in 2018, the pair watche…
Read MoreZomato rider resorts to horsepower in Hyderabad after truckers’ strike causes fuel shortage and traffic jamsAn Indian food delivery driver frustrated by long queues for petrol has resorted to horsepower to make his deliveries.A video clip shows the man…
Read MoreThere was outrage when the vice-president was mocked last month by an opposition MP, but social commentators say India is increasingly a country that cannot take a jokeIt is rare for India’s politicians to laugh at themselves, but a row over an act of …
Read MoreFourteen-year-old Fayza Ansari wanted to be an engineer. Instead, she died this month from leukaemia, failed by an overloaded and often heartless healthcare systemFrom the day Fayza Ansari, 14, was diagnosed with leukaemia, her life followed a tragic a…
Read MoreOne in three children in Delhi is already asthmatic, with many more at risk of organ damage from breathing noxious air. A crowded waiting room at one children’s hospital tells the storyIt is the third time in a week that Pankaj Ram, a construction work…
Read MoreA divorcee who likes a glass of wine and a pair of Ferragamo shoes, the opposition MP has become a target for character assassination for Narendra Modi’s conservatives. But she hits back twice as hardMahua Moitra is a misfit in Indian politics. She rej…
Read MoreA 17-year-old with a passion for robotics has produced a cheaper utensil that uses sensors to cancel out hand tremorsThe motivation for his invention came to Aarrav Anil last year when he saw his uncle Arjun, who has Parkinson’s disease, struggle to ea…
Read MoreLarge-scale field trials that provided healthy food packages to sufferers and their families showed radical reductions in fatalities Infectious, deadly and long associated with poverty, tuberculosis causes weight loss, while poor diets increase the lik…
Read MoreIndian Medical Association says that testing is substandard in the manufacture of generic medicines with ‘no guarantee of quality’Indian doctors have been told they can no longer prescribe branded drugs for their patients, provoking vehement protest fr…
Read MoreHome minister promises widespread reforms but some experts suggest the new laws are more a repackaging of existing measures than real changeMore than 160 years after Lord Macaulay laid down a penal code for what was then a colony of the British crown, …
Read MorePM attacks opposition parties during no-confidence motion called to force him to address ethnic violence in far-eastOpposition parties have walked out of the Indian parliament in protest at the refusal of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, to address e…
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