Most historians agree on the fact that the British Empire is the greatest empire in human history. While there had been ...

India has made significant progress in poverty reduction, lifting 171 million people out of extreme poverty, with rates ...

The United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions, established in 1945 in a different era, have failed to accommodate the changes in the balance of power since then ...

Official British-era records show that as late as 1922, defence expenditure accounted for 70.7% of India’s total budgetary expenditure. (Sanghnomics is a weekly column that tracks down and demystifies ...

India’s economic ascent is real. But unless the ladders of opportunity are extended to those at the bottom, the climb will remain precarious. The GDP growth rate is no longer enough.

Sotheby's has postponed its planned auction of the Piprahwa gems after outcry from Buddhists, art scholars and the government of India, which threatened legal action and accused the prestigious ...