There has always been a question of confusion about which one is India's national tree-the banyan or the Peepal. Both of the ...

Female students at a college in the Indian capital, Delhi, are demanding an end to a ritual that sees male students hang condoms filled with water from a tree and pray to "curvaceous goddesses" in ...

A 700-year-old banyan tree in the southern Indian state of Telengana has been put on special "drips" filled with diluted pesticides, to ward off insects. The tree is spread across three acres and ...