The saga of Diego Garcia's Chagossian evacuees

How Diego Garcia became a US military base

Opening to the past

Left sees red over Marx copyright

A small publisher of Collected Works has run afoul of Marxists by asserting copyright

Interstate disputes over Krishna waters

Democracy and the good road

From the blurbs

Science and Technology - Briefs

Coal mining threatens Meghalaya caves

The wisdom of the unlettered

Coal a human history

Turkish pollen deposited on lake bed helps track climate history

Historic Iran cemetry at risk

Stub cut short

Bytes

Sense of self

Biometry’s colonial roots  

Annihilation of caste and copyright claims

Ambedkar’s works have been published widely and yet pose a copyright conundrum

Rice originated in India

Fresh evidence from dung of dinosaurs changes many conceptions

High on weed

A study traces the trajectory of Lantana in the country

Cosmic collision

Discovery of a crater sheds new light on the end of many Middle East civilisations

Flowering of scientific research in nineteenth century Calcutta

Is the Babudom reformed?

Women's role helped Homo sapiens survive

South Asia

Drying up of an empire

Water crisis behind the decline of Angkor Wat

World Kiswahili Language Day: How a standard version of the east African language formed and spread across the world

Kiswahili has been adopted as a working language at the African Union