Why a performance of the US classic To Kill A Mockingbird in Bengaluru needed a "purely fictitious" disclaimer.

The International Astronomical Union recognised the efforts of this group, based in Mumbai, and gave them a grant for their pioneering ‘Astronomers on Foot’ programme.

An interview with Vineet Kumar Maurya, whose petition seeking to bring recognition to the Buddhist antecedents of Ayodhya has been accepted by the Supreme Court and clubbed with the title suit.

The Muslim Muk Morcha, a protest by over a lakh Muslims in Pune on September 9 represented an important mobilization of the community. But some are sceptical if it will have a favorable outcome.

Three years after Mohsin Shaikh was lynched by a Hindu Rashtra Sena mob in Pune, his family recalls memories of him.

Marine mammals have been studied by scientists in more detail than many fish found deeper in the ocean, and their acoustic behavior has been a source of much fascination.

Under the programme, schoolchildren in Pune have been collecting plastic items from their homes for safe disposal, assisted by their teachers and community workers.

Tarun Souradeep on the LIGO India collaboration, and whether India can take a leading role in science and scientific discovery in the years to come.

Sanjeev Dhurandhar is one of the giants of gravitational wave physics research worldwide, and has been leading the Indian research and experimental efforts in the area for three decades

A visit to a secluded and well-protected rescue centre reveals how the approach to the rescue and rehabilitation of leopards has evolved considerably since efforts first began around 2000.

Changing fashions were already affecting this homegrown industry, the lack of leather will likely kill it

An interview with Imtiaz Jalil, the AIMIM legislator whose attack on the Maharashtra government spending money on memorials instead of hospitals led BJP and Shiv Sena MLAs to question his patriotism, and then suspend Waris Pathan.

In the midst of heated contestations within the Hindutva establishment and their attempts at communal polarisation, nothing is changing in Faizabad-Ayodhya.

Two decades after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, meet a man whose connection to that history is both direct and controversial. But few know of Baba Dharamdas’ other link - to the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

ZIYA US SALAM talks to Scharada Dubey about piecing together “Portraits from Ayodha”

It might seem hard to tell one poor person from another but learning about them as individuals uncovers a world of invention, versatility, and ultimately self-respect.

IT was apparent quite soon after my arrival as a young bride twenty years ago, that Chennai, or Madras as it was then known, was very different from any of the places I had lived in before.