News from India
A chat app introduced by an Indian yoga guru and dubbed a “WhatsApp killer”, has been removed from app stores amid a furore over security flaws. Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Products… Continue reading Baba Ramdev: India guru’s ‘WhatsApp killer’ app mocked over flaws
At least 50 people are reported to have died amid heavy thunder and lightning that battered parts of northern India on Tuesday, officials said. High-speed winds and lighting strikes devastated… Continue reading India thunderstorms and lightning strikes kill 50
A mother and her three-year-old daughter have been killed in India after the woman was bitten by a snake. Not realising she had been attacked, the woman began breastfeeding her… Continue reading Tragic tale of nursing mother’s snakebite shocks India
Amid fears that Nipah virus has spread to other states such as Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh, the Union Health Ministry on Thursday night issued an advisory for general public and… Continue reading Health Ministry issues advisory to contain spreading of Nipah virus
Mobs in southern India have killed at least five people and injured 20 others amid recent social media rumours about “child kidnapping gangs”. Police say the messages, which were being… Continue reading India mobs kill five over ‘social media rumour’
With 10 deaths due to the deadly Nipah virus being reported so far from northern Kerala, the state government today issued an advisory, asking travellers to avoid visiting the four… Continue reading Nipah virus: Advisory against travel to 4 Kerala districts
“I don’t think I will be able to see you again. Sorry. Please raise our children well.” Lini Puthussery, a 28-year-old nurse, wrote this note to her husband as she… Continue reading Lini Puthussery: India’s ‘hero’ nurse who died battling Nipah virus
Health officials in the south Indian state of Kerala say nine people have died in confirmed and suspected cases of the deadly Nipah virus. Three victims tested positive for the… Continue reading Deadly Nipah virus claims victims in India
The world is suffering from an invisible epidemic, an epidemic of pain. As many as 60 million people are reckoned to suffer avoidable agony every year. It is a situation… Continue reading Why are so many people denied the painkillers they need?
Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan returned to Twitter on Wednesday, two months after he had announced that he was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour. Khan, 51, tweeted about his upcoming film,… Continue reading Irrfan Khan: Life of Pi actor tweets amid cancer treatment
At least 18 people have been killed and dozens trapped in the Indian city of Varanasi after a flyover collapsed, crushing vehicles beneath it. The flyover was still being built… Continue reading India flyover collapse kills at least 18 in Varanasi
Votes are being counted in the southern Indian state of Karnataka which went to polls on Saturday. Results are expected to be announced later on Tuesday. Most exit polls on… Continue reading Karnataka: Vote-counting begins in crucial India poll
