Fraser Sugden’s ‘Land, Labour and Agrarian Change in Nepal’s Tarai-Madhesh’ explains why decades of political upheaval have failed to break the hold of landlordism and poverty in Nepal’s southern plains

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuroscience.

रायलसीमा में बवाल मंच पर CM चंद्रबाबू नायडू पवन कल्याण अनंत अंबानी। वित्त मंत्री जो बोलीं सुनो जनता बोली पहले नौकरी दो! सिटी नारे हूटिंग वित्त मंत्री को रोकना पड़ा भाषण। चंद्रबाबू नायडू को उठकर कहना प...

He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.

It was the second time in a week that an outfit with purported RSS links had raided the institute, members of the Akhil Bharatiya Gram Panchayat (ABGP) having allegedly attacked the students on Sept 2...

How a Christian king and a Muslim scholar spent fifteen years finding the pepper coast (Palermo, 1138–54)

Until Google renamed it “Tarluvada IT Hub and Data Centre Hub” on Google Maps, this village outside Visakhapatnam was known for marigolds, roses and jasmine, grown alongside cashew and teak.

Nobody knows how much the world’s militaries actually emit. Since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, military emissions have been effectively carved out of international climate accounting

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LOL! Best Hitler-bunker-scene rendition so far! “You didn’t tell me these were the same Persians that defeated the Romans.” "Have Bari Weiss write why high oil prices are actually a good thing..."

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Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure has delivered an environmental blowback that is now poisoning Israel’s own water supply, as a 60-mile bloom of microalgae and…

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Eradication programs do not usually fail for lack of money. They fail when a disease gets quiet enough that someone decides looking is optional.

Later that night, a group of men identifying themselves as BJP supporters allegedly went to the professor’s home and warned him of dire consequences if he did not 'mend his ways'

For a Goan, being off the roll costs more than a vote: Dialysis to transplants, state health support scheme open only to voters

In recent times, labour with just a few years of exposure to silica dust in quartzite mine factories are succumbing to silicosis. Lung capacity swiftly declines; theirs is a death foretold

Countercurrents is pleased to serialise “The Latest News of Abu Yusuf al-Tahhan”, a novel by Palestinian writer Salim Nazzal. Beginning with this chapter, we will publish one chapter each week.

Vegetables grown along a stretch of the Yamuna near Delhi are contaminated with multiple heavy metals at concentrations that exceed food safety limits and raise potential health concerns for consumers, University of Delhi researchers have cautioned. Their study covered only a small stretch of the Yamuna — a 1,379km river that runs through seven states — but their findings raise the possibility that similar contamination could occur elsewhere in the country where crops are grown using polluted water.

YALA, Sri Lanka – One early morning in July 2016, six wildlife officers waited in a patch of scrubland close to a small pond in southern Sri Lanka. They had received information that poachers had…

The two latest deaths suggest that the true number of infections is much larger than reported.

Students, workers and young professionals arrested in connection with the April workers’ unrest have one thing in common: All who know them vouch for their goodness

From above, the North Sentinel Island tribal reserve in India’s Andaman and Nicobar archipelago is a thick, unbroken patch of dark green — starkly surrounded by the shimmering coastal blue waters of…

Sixteen of 22 industrial units inspected in Hapur were found violating environmental norms during an inspection drive by the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), with two non-conforming units subsequently sealed by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), officials said on Wednesday. The inspection was carried out on Tuesday by seven CAQM flying squads in coordination with the Hapur district administration and other concerned authorities.

Heard the news of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland breaking away from UK. I don't care what they do, I just have one teeny tiny request. Can we PLEASE appoint a random Indian officer as the sole ...

Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.

Glanzvolle Zeiten hat Krefeld mit der Seidenmanufaktur erlebt. Doch der Reichtum war den Industriellen vorbehalten; die Weber, die ihr Brot mit Webstuhl

Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, which he described as attended by “just really close friends,” was thanks to an ally of Vladimir Putin.

An excerpt from development economist Reetika Khera’s book, 'Freebies or Rights: Understanding Social Policy in India'