India

With the Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight, the US and Russia’s Cold War stand-off seems quaint in retrospect

Kazan Declaration reflects the grievances and aspirations shared by the disparate countries that are part of Brics

Ottawa has accused Indian officials of planning the assassination of a Canadian Sikh separatist leader in Vancouver in 2023

Agreement paves way for easing of tensions between New Delhi and Beijing

Move comes after Canada and India expel diplomats over killing of Sikh activist

Justin Trudeau says his government has ‘compelling evidence’ Indian government agents engage in activities that pose threat to public safety in Canada

Canadian government reverses policy amid growing concerns that immigrants are contributing to the country’s deepening challenges around housing, healthcare and other issues

Guidebooks internalise the perspective of the world as a spectacle laid out for the pleasure and edification of westerners

Unfavourable jail treatment stemming from colonial days such as toilet cleaning and cleaning septic tanks for those at bottom of caste system deemed by supreme court to be ‘forced labour’

Diplomats and analysts in New Delhi look to reworked multipolar, mutually equitable and sustainable global relations

Writer Cauvery Madhavan arrived in Ireland with a ‘suitcase full of sin’ – a stockpile of condoms

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran could not consider itself a Muslim nation if it remained oblivious to ‘sufferings’ in Myanmar, Gaza, India

Ancient India gave the world the decimal system, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, medicine, metallurgy, astronomy and even the dreaded algorithm

Every religion has its last rites, and this is what Hindus do

Dr George Leslie Thomas Prekattil says many doctors are deterred by registration delays and exam scheduling

Programme guarantees employees 50% of base salary as a pension rather than a figure linked to market returns

Being outnumbered by Muslims is a constant Hindu fear. Add to that Narendra Modi’s increasingly autocratic rule and what emerges is very far from a shiny India

Law introduced in 2012, following fatal gang rape of medical student, has failed to reduce violence against women in a country where over 31,000 rape cases were reported in 2022

National task force to recommend safety protocols for doctors at their workplaces

Protests by doctors calling for a safer workplace environment continue into a second week following horrific rape and murder of a trainee medic in the eastern Indian city of Kolkat