Video: Why was March 8 chosen as the day to commemorate International Women’s Day?
It was in the year 1914 that March 8 was chosen to recognise the ongoing struggle for equal rights regardless of gender.
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1A new book recounts how Lal Bahadur Shastri improved third-class train travel as railway minister
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2A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
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3How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city
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4‘Noose around my neck’: Tech professionals rethink life in US amid immigration curbs
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5The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
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6How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
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7Failing crop insurance proves costly for vulnerable Indian farmers
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8‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
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9Rush Hour: Kashmir chief cleric ‘detained’ on Eid, Congress seeks law on SC, ST quotas and more
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10Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
