Two IIT Madras students on Tuesday ended their one-day-old indefinite hunger strike, called after a girl student’s suspected suicide sparked allegations that she had faced religious discrimination a...

Hemant Soren, the chief minister-designate, appears to have tweeted his priorities before formally taking up the reins of Jharkhand on December 29. He gave a hint of his priorities through two linked ...

Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) leader Akhil Gogoi was rushed to Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) on Saturday after he was reported to be suffering from stomach ache and fever. However,...

The Union minister of commerce and industry, Piyush Goyal, has announced cheerfully that such has been the focus of the government that not a single Indian citizen has been left wanting for food durin...

Hunger addles the brain. At least according to the research conducted in the University of Dundee. With an empty stomach, people tend to go for the packet of chips dangling within reach rather than wa...

In the largest slum in Kenya’s capital, people desperate to eat set off a stampede during a recent giveaway of flour and cooking oil, leaving scores injured and two people dead.In India, thousands o...

One hot afternoon, an orange truck with smileys drives into a south Calcutta slum — known as the Chetla Lock Gate slum. Six-year-old Durga is squatting under a tubewell. Four-year-old Priya is playi...

A tweet from jailed Ambedkarite leader Chandrashekhar “Ravan” Azad’s account on Sunday morning announced that he and fellow Bhim Army undertrials were on hunger strike in Tihar over prison autho...

A 46-year-old migrant labourer died on a Shramik Express train on Saturday after having had nothing to eat or drink for 60 hours, a nephew who was accompanying him has alleged.Raveesh Yadav said no fo...