Villagers claim animals were carrying out ‘revenge killings’ after dogs killed an infant monkeyTwo monkeys that allegedly killed hundreds of puppies in the Indian state of Maharastra have been captured.Villagers in Lavool village, in the Beed district…
India has more women than men for first time, survey finds
Survey of 650,000 households finds falling reproductive rate, suggesting population boom is endingIndia has more women than men for the first time in its recorded history and is no longer experiencing a population boom, according to a government survey…
India: nine people die in farmers’ protests against new laws
Conflicting accounts about how violence broke out around vehicles reportedly part of minister Ajay Mishra’s convoyNine people have been killed in violent clashes during a protest by hundreds of farmers in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in a d…
Death threats sent to participants of US conference on Hindu nationalism
Threats force several scholars to withdraw as ‘far-right fringe groups’ accuse event of being ‘anti-Hindu’An academic conference in the US addressing Hindu nationalism is being targeted by rightwing Hindu groups, which have sent death threats to partic…