Chandrika was found alive, partly trapped in mud on the fourth floor of a house that had been buried by the August 26 floods. For eight days, Chandrika Shrestha’s family searched for her after a devastating flood swept through Nepal’s Bhotekoshi river basin. There was no sign of the 64-year-old woman. Her house had been…

The psychology behind checking your phone You are waiting for a lift and, almost without thinking, your hand reaches for your phone. You are sitting in a car and there is a two-minute pause before you need to get out, so you unlock the screen. You are standing in a queue, waiting for your coffee…

The temple is located on a hill and visitors have to climb around 500 steps to reach the shrine. In Rajasthan’s Bhopalgarh, there is a temple where the person performing the rituals is not a Hindu priest. For generations, a Muslim family has been serving Bagoria Mata (a local deity), performing the temple’s rituals while…