News from India
THE Victorian government has made one part of parenting just that little bit harder by releasing a list of names deemed too offensive (“Satan”, anyone?) or simply too similar to… Continue reading Victorian government releases list of banned baby names
Thousands of mourners are flocking to pay their respects to J Jayalalitha, one of India’s most influential and colourful politicians. The 68-year-old chief minister of Tamil Nadu state suffered a… Continue reading India Jayalalitha: Thousands mourn colourful politician
Large crowds are gathering outside a Chennai hospital after one of India’s most popular and powerful politicians, J Jayalalitha, suffered a heart attack on Sunday night. The news has sparked… Continue reading India’s Jayaram Jayalalitha suffers heart attack
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who is in a very critical condition after a cardiac arrest according to hospital sources, has had a heart surgery this morning, her party… Continue reading Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa critical after cardiac arrest
On 2 December 2015, the south Indian city of Chennai (Madras) witnessed devastating floods, after receiving the heaviest rainfall it had witnessed in a century. As much as 272 mm… Continue reading The volunteers who kept Chennai afloat through the floods
Militants have attacked an army camp in Indian-administered Kashmir, with grenades and gunfire, killing three soldiers, police sources told the BBC. Indian troops have returned fire from the camp in… Continue reading Kashmir clashes: Indian soldiers ‘killed’ in Nagrota camp attack
Police in India say they have recaptured a Sikh separatist leader, who escaped from a prison in Punjab. Harminder Singh Mintoo was arrested from the main railway station in the… Continue reading India jailbreak: Sikh separatist Harminder Singh Mintoo recaptured
On the evening of 8 November, vegetable vendor Vishal Gupta was preparing to shut his roadside stall when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that 500 ($7.30; £6) and 1,000 rupee… Continue reading Can India really become a cashless society?
The Indian government’s surprise decision to ban 500 and 1,000 rupee notes overnight in a crackdown on corruption, has impacted 86% of the money circulating in the country’s largely cash… Continue reading Meet the ‘money mules’ of India’s cash crisis
This week will be decisive for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s audacious experiment in tackling tax evasion and corruption in India. Two weeks ago he gave the world’s seventh biggest economy… Continue reading Modi’s money medicine: Kill or cure?
Rescuers are combing through mangled wreckage after a train derailed in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state. At least 133 people have died after the Indore-Patna Express derailed at 03:00 local… Continue reading India train: Rescuers comb through mangled wreckage
The death toll following the derailment of a train in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state has now passed 100, with more than 150 injured, police say. Fourteen carriages of the… Continue reading India train crash: 100 killed in derailment near Kanpur
