India

The Indian Academy of Sciences has appointed Professor Ashok Venkitaraman from the University of Cambridge as its first Jubilee Professor in 2012.

After years of being overlooked as a film genre, amateur cinema is finally being recognised by academics as a form that merits serious study in its...

Each year melioidosis – a soil-borne disease dubbed the ‘Great Mimicker’ because of its frequent misdiagnosis – kills as many people in some regions...

A major conference examining how the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India and China as leading world powers should be accommodated by the international...

Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India’s intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study.

Cambridge University researchers have discovered that lactose tolerant milk-drinkers in India and Europe could be related to the same person who...

Why is heart disease increasing at a greater rate in South Asia than in any other region globally? Large-scale population studies in Pakistan and...

The plight of Binayak Sen, the Indian public health expert recently bailed from prison on controversial sedition charges, is symptomatic of the...