India

Tiny particulate matter in the atmosphere, long recognised as a health hazard, may also threaten the productivity of basmati rice in India, scientists have warned.

Not many Indians speak Sanskrit nowadays but the language of the gods still added 10,000 more people to its list of speakers in a span of 10 years.

The Delhi Police has issued a lookout circular against the husband of the female flight attendant who allegedly committed suicide in south Delhi's Panchsheel Park on Friday, police said on Monday. 

In the Lok Sabha bulletin for legislative business of the upcoming monsoon session, one bill stands out because it is the only one about which no details have been furnished.

No one is calling it a Rosa Parks moment but a Dalit bridegroom broke through a barrier on Sunday evening when he arrived in a western Uttar Pradesh village to marry a girl in a buggy, accompanied by a band and 200-odd relatives and friends.

Rahul Gandhi has cited his respect for free speech to indicate his opposition to legal action against a Netflix series where his father Rajiv Gandhi is dubbed a coward, taking a rare stand in a country known for banning books and films and in a polity growing increasingly intolerant.

Pemba Sherpa, 47, who had scaled Mount Everest eight times, disappeared on Thursday during an expedition to the Karakoram range of the Himalayas and is presumed to have fallen into a crevasse.

The reason Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra changed the composition of the five-judge constitution bench hearing various crucial cases was to counter criticism that he was allocating cases to favoured benches, sources have revealed.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Rahul Gandhi if the Congress was a party only of Muslim men, trying to resurrect a claim already rejected as untrue and then give it a gender twist.

The BJP on Saturday launched its election campaign in Madhya Pradesh with party president Amit Shah declaring that the Congress's dream of regaining power would be shattered.