Delhi Metro’s popularity has increased since it started running the first stretch between Shahdara and Tis Hazari in December 2002.

OUR understanding of Indian cities— their history, geography, sociology, politics— is seriously limited. At the time of its Independence, India was primarily a rural country. The government invested heavily in understanding rural India.

Streptococcus pyogenes. Most people will not care for the tongue twister.

Proud of their self-styled image as a nation of doglovers, people in the UK are chewing over a government proposal to insert a micro - chip in every canine in the country.

Visual sophistry of James Cameron’s Avatar may have got it Oscars in technical categories, but many say the film’s plot was all too familiar.

The South Korean police arrested a couple who became so obsessed with an online game that they starved their infant daughter to death.

The mayor of a Japanese town, which conducts an annual dolphin hunt, has protested the Academy Award given to The Cove, a documentary on grisly slaughter.

The government of Western Australia has launched a review of the language it uses when referring to aboriginal people. The state’s indigenous affairs minister Kim Hames has asked the Aboriginal Advisory Board to recommend the most appropriate collective term to use.

Each section of the Handbook on Wildlife Law begins with a quote from Sun Tzu, the ancient war guide from China.

Buzz Aldrin knows what it is to be second best. In his most famous photograph, his face is not visible. Taken on the moon, Aldrin’s face is entirely hidden inside his space helmet.