The Bengal famine of 1943 killed more than three million people in eastern India. It was one of the worst losses of civilian life on the Allied side in World War Two. There is no memorial ...

Famine had long been a part of life in Bengal, but the one that began in the late 1760’s was turned into a full blown humanitarian disaster by the East India Company. It’s hard to come to ...

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Her grandfather was the governor of Bengal, in British India, during the run-up and height of the 1943 famine which killed at least three million people. She is only just learning about his ...

An 1876 token tells the story of a famine period in India, and a rare example of the uniface bronze token is part of the ...

Nagpur: Drought-stricken farmers of Rajasthan, grappling with severe economic hardship, are increasingly turning to illegal narcotics trade, with the .

The UN Security Council received dire warnings about a looming famine in northern Gaza due to Israel's month-long siege. While the US urged Israel against forcible displacement and starvation ...

India’s entertainment industry is banking on a solid line-up of local and Hollywood releases to drag it out of a blockbuster “famine” and get people back into cinemas after a series of flops.