This year, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, is India’s chief guest on Republic Day. The year Bolsonaro was born — 1955 — Pakistan’s Governor General Malik Ghulam Muhammad was the guest of h...

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has falsely claimed that the Hollywood star, Leonardo DiCaprio, financed the fires recently set in the Amazon rainforest.It was the latest attempt by the Right-wing ...

The threats are swirling around the President: Deaths from the virus in Brazil each day are now the highest in the world. Investors are fleeing the country. The President, his sons and his allies are ...

Thronged banks. Packed subway cars. Buses full of President Jair Bolsonaro’s fervent supporters, heading to rallies that call on Brazilians to brush aside stay-at-home orders from mayors and governo...

Arjuna might have found a perfect successor in Jair Bolsonaro. If this parallel seems odd, one only has to look at images of flames leaping from the Amazon and recall the incineration of the Khandava ...

A maverick journalist in this isolated Brazilian ranching town warned his readers last month that the surrounding Amazon was about to go up in flames.Queimadas, or burnings, are nothing new in Novo Pr...

Ahead of the arrival on Friday of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who will be the chief guest at the Republic Day Parade, parties and organisations opposed to his brand of politics have begun mobi...

Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcr...

European leaders have reacted with growing fear and anger to the fires ravaging Brazil’s rainforest, calling it a worldwide crisis that is accelerating global warming — and one that Brazil’s lea...