India, known for its rich biodiversity, designates official state animals to symbolise its ecological and cultural heritage.

While English is not the sole language of any state, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland have English as an official language, along with their respective regional languages. Several other states also have ...

India's five southern states include Karnataka, of which tech hub Bengaluru is the capital, industrial powerhouse Tamil Nadu, and Telengana, one of the fastest growing among the country's 28 states.

In recent years, at least a dozen of India’s 28 states passed laws to criminalize “forced” conversions, most of them in Hindu nationalist party-ruled states from the early 2000s onward.

West Bengal has been ranked 13th out of 36 states and Union Territories in terms of its actions on achieving sustainable development, marginally improving over its last year’s performance but still ...