Rescue efforts continue in Uttarakhand's Harshil and Dharali after a cloudburst caused flash floods and landslides this week.

Long before satellites, colonial powers used hand-drawn maps not to navigate, but to dominate. In India, cartography became a ...

From heritage towns to misty mountains, these monsoon-perfect getaways are ideal for a quick long weekend escape this August.

Shobha Rao’s new novel, “Indian Country,” is a crime story as well as a multilayered saga of white empire in India and ...

Uttarakhand, the mountainous northern state that hosts Dharali, has been devastated by cloudbursts before. A June 2013 ...

When migrant labourers from Nepal Kali Devi and her husband Vijay Singh completed their task and left Harsil Valley in ...

More than 100 people are missing and at least one has died after devastating flash floods in the northern Indian state of ...

On 1905, Indian leaders formally launched the Swadeshi Movement at Calcutta Town Hall, passing a boycott resolution against ...

Temples were flooded as the Ganges River overflowed in India following relentless heavy rain. The water level of the river in Varanasi surpassed the danger mark of 71.3 metres on Sunday, August 3, ...

Some 660 million pilgrims journeyed to the banks of the River Ganges over 44 days during Kumbh Mela, the religious Hindu ...

The singer talks her new album, the sexualisation of young women in music – and how scrutiny in the 1980s press drove her to an eating disorder ...

For Bangladesh, far downstream yet acutely affected, the Medog Hydropower Station highlights its struggles to ensure ...