The Cooch Behar dynasty was among India’s most cosmopolitan royal houses, blending Koch lineage with European modernity. From ...

NEW DELHI – Mahashweta Devi, a well-known Indian writer and social activist, who used her writing to give voice to the oppressed poor tribal and forest dwellers, has died. She was 90. Devi had been in ...

Sheetal Devi's trailblazing feats despite being born without arms stood out as she lifted Indian archery to new heights in ...

A New York Times investigation revisits a covert CIA operation that left a plutonium-powered surveillance device lost on Nanda Devi in 1965, a Cold War secret that continues to raise fears of ...

Raised in Irengbam Village in Manipur State, Bala Devi was a young Indian girl who idolised Bembem Devi, a local female player who was likened to a Hindu goddess. By 2002, aged 12, it was Ronaldinho ...

Maharani Indira Devi of Cooch Behar discovered delicate Lyon chiffon in France and brought it to India, transforming a ...

“All my customers are regulars,” Devi Raju says. “I’ve got good customers, like that,” she says, pointing to a man as he finishes his plate, gets up, sets it in a bus tub and begins clearing plates ...

Poor and illiterate, Bhanwari Devi doesn't have a cellphone. She doesn't use hashtags. She hadn't heard of India's burgeoning #MeToo movement until a human rights worker visited her rural farming ...

A secret CIA mission in 1965 to spy on China resulted in a lost nuclear device on Nanda Devi. American and Indian climbers ...

Fans of Indian dance have reason to celebrate, as Google unveils a new Doodle featuring Sitara Devi, a legendary performer of classical Indian Kathak dance. Devi was born in Kolkata 97 years ago ...