News from India
Police are searching for more suspects in connection with the murder of a woman and her four children who were accused of being “witches”. Six people in the eastern state… Continue reading Mother and four children murdered in India ‘witch hunt’
Veteran socialist politician George Fernandes, who served as India’s defence minister during the Kargil conflict with Pakistan, has died, aged 88. He was suffering from Alzheimer’s and had been out… Continue reading George Fernandes: The man who threw out Coca-Cola and IBM from India
India’s Ambati Rayudu has been banned from bowling in international cricket because of a suspect action. Part-time bowler Rayudu was reported after India’s one-day international defeat by Australia on 12… Continue reading India’s Ambati Rayudu banned from bowling by ICC over suspect action
Eighteen years after Jaswinder Sidhu was murdered in India, her mother and uncle have been extradited from Canada to stand trial in the country. Malkit Kaur Sidhu and Surjit Singh… Continue reading Canadian honour killing suspects extradited to India
Violent protests are continuing in India’s north-eastern states over a proposed amendment to the country’s citizenship law. The protests have been particularly vocal in the state of Assam, which recently… Continue reading Assam citizenship bill: Anti-migrant protests rock north-east India
Priyanka Gandhi, the charismatic sister of Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, has formally joined politics months ahead of general elections in India. Ms Gandhi has been appointed the party general… Continue reading Priyanka Gandhi launches political career ahead of key India polls
When Mallappa, a farmer in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh, left his home in August last year, he told his family he was going to “buy groceries”. They never… Continue reading The struggling farmer who planned his own funeral
Indian navy divers have found the body of a worker who was trapped with 14 others inside a flooded coal mine in the north-eastern state of Meghalaya. The men had… Continue reading Meghalaya miners: Drone locates one body in flooded Indian mine
A woman has climbed a mountain in India, where only men were allowed until now for religious reasons. Dhanya Sanal’s ascent to the summit of Agasthyakoodam in southern Kerala state… Continue reading India women: First female climbs sacred mountain
Millions of people in the northern Indian city of Allahabad are preparing to bathe in holy waters as part of the world’s largest religious gathering – the Kumbh Mela. At… Continue reading Kumbh Mela: Millions of Indians prepare for holy dip
Chefs working in Saravana Bhavan, a Chennai-based private restaurant, claims to have made the world’s largest dosa. A team containing 60 chefs, headed by Vinoth Kumar who is a five-time… Continue reading Chennai restaurant claims to have made world’s longest dosa
India’s affirmative action programme is one of most comprehensive in the world. It is built into the country’s 68-year-old constitution, and reserves seats in parliament and state assemblies for the… Continue reading Is affirmative action in India becoming a gimmick?
