News from India
An Indian police force has told its officers to lose weight or face suspension from service. The chief of Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) told the BBC that he was… Continue reading India policemen told to slim down or lose job
India’s Supreme Court has rejected a petition seeking to overturn the death sentences of three men convicted of the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi. Vinay… Continue reading India Delhi bus gang rapists lose death row plea
A citizen-led movement in India’s capital Delhi has successfully halted the cutting of more than 16,000 trees in the city. The BBC’s Nikita Mandhani talked to some people actively involved… Continue reading How the people of Delhi saved 16,000 trees from the axe
A woman working at Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has been arrested for allegedly selling a 14-day-old baby. Two other women employees from… Continue reading Mother Teresa India charity home ‘sold babies’
India police investigating the deaths of 11 family members found dead in their home in the capital Delhi say they have recovered CCTV footage which supports a theory of mass… Continue reading Delhi mass hangings: CCTV footage backs suicide theory
A railway bridge collapse due to heavy monsoon rains in India’s financial capital Mumbai has stranded thousands of commuters in the city. The collapse at Andheri station – one of… Continue reading Mumbai rail bridge collapse strands thousands of commuters
The funerals of 11 members of an extended family – 10 of whom were found hanging from the ceiling of their home in the Indian capital Delhi – will take… Continue reading India mystery over Delhi’s ‘house of mass hangings’
Eleven members of an extended family have been found dead in a house in India’s capital, Delhi – 10 of them hanging from the ceiling, police say. A woman in… Continue reading India family found hanged from ceiling in Delhi house
Two men have been arrested over the brutal rape of a seven-year-old girl in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh amid massive public anger. Hundreds of people have been… Continue reading India child rape: Huge protests in Madhya Pradesh
Leading Indian newspaper journalist and editor Shujaat Bukhari was killed by a Pakistan-based militant outfit, police have said. Bukhari was shot dead in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, on… Continue reading Shujhaat Bukhari: Pakistan militants blamed for journalist death
A survey conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation has ranked India as the world’s most dangerous country for women, ahead of Afghanistan, Syria and Saudi Arabia. But is this really… Continue reading Is India really the most dangerous country for women?
The arrest of an Indian couple in the US who allegedly ran a prostitution ring by luring female actresses from India has shone a spotlight on casting couch allegations surrounding… Continue reading The Indian actresses caught in a US ‘prostitution’ racket
