A court has ordered Shimla’s municipal corporation to clear an estimated 4,000 feral street dogs, which have attacked residents and tourists, from its famous malls and promenades and relocate them outside the town. The order has highlighted the...

He does not want to be named or photographed, nor have his village identified, though he speaks freely. His fraternity is crucial to the lives of nearly half a million migrants from Ganjam who work in Surat. He may have been an agricultural labourer or...

Streets had reverted to calm and curfews were in force in major districts of Urumqi as the death toll mounted from rioting. Police halted people who had gathered in nearby Yili Kazak Prefecture and Aksu City and dispersed more than 200 people who had...

India is to embark on an ambitious plan to provide each of its 1.1 billion-plus citizens with a national identity card and has picked an industrialist who helped to spearhead the country’s IT revolution to lead the project. Nandan Nilekani, the...

Today is the last day for residents of one of the last surviving ancient cities in China to claim a bonus for agreeing to move out to make way for the wrecking ball. After the offer expires, the only inducement may be force. Bulldozers are already...

Singapore’s civil servants are the most efficient among their Asian peers, a business survey on 12 economies released on Wednesday showed, but they tend to clam up unhelpfully when things go wrong. The island-state was ranked first for a third...

As she strolls through a park near her temporary home, Shen Lixiu glances warily at passers-by who may be listening in on her conversation. The 53-year-old mother of two from China’s eastern Jiangsu province appears no different from other park...

Dismissed by critics as a political greenhorn over a decade ago, Naveen Patnaik with his ‘Mr Clean’ image scripted history becoming chief minister for the third consecutive term after steering his BJD to a landslide victory in the assembly...

QUEST is a project conducted by The Indian Express in schools in and around Delhi. It covers more than 50 schools in Delhi and NCR. With Twenty20 being the flavour of the month, QUEST had invited articles by students of various member schools on the...

May 20 : He may have wallowed in luxury at the fag end of his underground life in Sri Lanka’s forested region, but there was a time when Velupillai Prabhakaran battled with hunger because he had no money to buy food. Those were the days when he was an...