An illustration picture shows a man starting his Twitter App on a mobile device in Hanau near Frankfurt, October 21, 2013. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach   Digital rights experts say gender-based online vio

Kolkata, January 23 (IANS) One cannot have an India that is completely sanitised of its culture, which itself is linked to religion, as India has a certain existence predating the Republic and the Indian state,

Tahera Mohamedi hunches over a tandoor oven where she bakes bread for a living in a refugee settlement near Barikab, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. November 7, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Rina Cha

Q’ero tribe in the Andes, Peru, 2018. Handout photo via Jimmy Nelson/Thomson Reuters Foundation   An artist is using vanishing portraits of endangered tribes to spur world leaders into action at th

Components taken from iPhones, like camera modules, are sorted into large bins for further processing after Daisy deconstructs them at an Apple recycling facility in Austin, Texas, U.S., August 21, 2019. REUTER

 Dollar banknotes are seen in this picture illustration taken June 13, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo   NEW DELHI, January 20 (Reuters) - New legislation will improve protectio

BY DEEPIKA BHAN  IANS | January 19   For three decades a community of over five lakh people has been waiting for justice to get the perpetrators of their forced exodus identified and booked. Th

A protest against a new citizenship law in Mumbai on January 8. | Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters   New Delhi, January 18 (IANS) Changes in criteria qualifying a person as citizenship of India has been o

New Delhi, January 18 (IANS) Nandita Haksars book 'The Flavours of Nationalism: Recipes of Love, Hate and Friendship' will receive the Book of the Year award at the LF Epicurean Guild Awards (LFEGA) 2020. Th

New Delhi, January 18 (IANS) Reacting to a tweet by ace lawyer Indira Jaising urging her to forgive the four men on death row for brutally raping that finally took her life, Nirbhaya's Mother Asha Devi said on

Jenn Harper, founder of the indigenous women’s social enterprise 'Cheekbone Beauty', poses for a photo in Toronto, Canada on 16 January 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Belinda Goldsmith   'We wan

New Delhi, January 16 (IANS) The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) aims to fast-track citizenship for six persecuted minority communities -- Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians -- who arrived i

Indigenous people participate during the Presidential Summit for the Amazon, in Leticia, Colombia September 6, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez   Involving native tribal communities is critical to saving

New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) With each passing day, Delhi voters appear to be getting increasingly concerned with economic issues and less worried about development issues, findings of the IANS/C-Voter Delhi Tracke

IANS Photos By Siddhi Jain    New Delhi, January 14 (IANSlife) Born near Rajasthan's Barmer district, 31-year-old handicraft artisan Ruma Devi defied all odds when she created ripples of soci

By Sukant Deepak    New Delhi, January 14 (IANS) Stressing that the upcoming Union Budget must focus on providing more jobs to the youth, serious infrastructure development and addressing the pr

Beijing, January 14 (IANS) The world's oceans were the warmest in 2019 than any other time in the recorded human history -- especially between the surface and a depth of 2,000 metres, an international team of 1

People line up to go online at an internet cafe in Banihal, India on December 23, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Athar Parvaiz   India said it cut communications to prevent unrest in Kashmir, where

BY D.C. PATHAK  IANS | January 12   The elimination of Gen Qasem Suleimani heading the Al Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps in an American Drone attack at Baghdad, draws a paralle

Jammu, January 10 (IANS) Muzaffar Hussain Beigh, patron of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) indicting Mehbooba Mufti of making provocative statements, which led to the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir's specia