Preserving the Jones Act, which requires the use of U.S. vessels, and antitrust enforcement are key to saving American ...

The arrest of a female neurosurgeon working in Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital with two accomplices, for fraud, has created a ...

As Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka’s first female Executive President, turns 80 on June 29, a timely question ...

From Ellis Island to Lampedusa, from Seoul to Senegal, filmmakers have used cinema to chart the hopes, heartbreak and quiet ...

Index•Synopsis•Ancient Indian Contractual Ethics in the Vedic and Dharmashastra Period•Legal Foundations of Contracts in the Classical Smriti Texts•Kautilya’s Arthashastra and the Secular Regulation o ...

More women are connecting environmental degradation with attacks on women's rights, seeing both as rooted in similar values. They’re drawing on personal experiences and reams of research to make their ...

On Friday, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, told the UN Security Council that "the above-ground part of the pilot fuel enrichment plant, where Iran was producing ...

Learn about the British East India Company, which played a pivotal role in Britain’s control over India and other regions, and how the British used a combination of military might, diplomacy ...

Partition’s roots date back to the 17th century, when the British East India Company, a private company that traded in Indian riches like spices and silks, began acquiring Indian land, taking ...

Why in the news? The rebellion of 1857, also known as India’s first war of Independence, began on May 10, 1857. In the revolt, Indian sepoys rose up against the might of the British officers of the ...

It was on May 10, 1857 that this outbreak of a massive uprising against British rule broke out in Meerut. It quickly spread across northern and central India. The uprising was fueled by deep ...

After that, Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled, and the fort was taken over by the British East India Company. She said she had inherited the Red Fort from her ancestor and that the Government of ...