India, Oct. 10 -- Think of colonial India, and the usual suspects emerge - Kolkata's mansions, Mumbai's forts, Chennai's boulevards, and Pondicherry's French Quarter. These cities were epicentres of ...

When British traders landed on India’s shores in the 1600s, they arrived in search of spices and silk but stayed for centuries – leaving behind a legacy that would shape the nation long after their ...

Venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen was, unsurprisingly, disappointed that India’s telecom regulator recently thwarted Facebook’s plans to expand Free Basics, the company’s ...

In 1912, Jamini Sen became the first woman Fellow of Glasgow’s Royal College, founded in 1599 and long closed to women.

New Delhi — India's Supreme Court has put on hold a controversial British colonial-era law that critics say has been widely misused against government critics for decades. The sedition law allows ...

Still from “Panorama of Calcutta” (1899), the earliest extant film of India (screenshot via YouTube) The British Film Institute (BFI) has digitized and uploaded a major trove of rarely seen films from ...

India’s president assented Monday to three new post-colonial criminal law reform bills, paving the way for their enactment. The Ministry of Law and Justice of the Government of India officially issued ...

We live in the age of the emergency state. The nature of globalization and its security challenges — whether in the form of terrorism or global pandemics — requires the state to remain constantly on ...

(The Conversation) — Deobandi Islam, the religious school that the Taliban draw their ideology from, was set up in 19th century India to educate Muslim youth. (The Conversation) — Following the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man stands in front of a cyber crime awareness billboard, with warnings in both English and ...