投稿者: Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan in Delhi
Experts say Muslims and other minorities have been disproportionately deleted from the electoral roll ahead of the West Bengal elections this weekMillions of people in the Indian state of West Bengal have been stripped of their vote ahead of a critical…
Investigators believe an explosion that killed 13 people may be linked to group operating in the disputed regionPolice have carried out raids and made several arrests across the Indian region of Kashmir in the aftermath of a car explosion in Delhi that…
Critics say the government’s plan to eradicate the country’s decades-long Maoist rebellion comes at a bloody price – and questions whether there are motives other than a wish for peaceFor decades, guerrilla communist warfare has raged deep in India’s j…
Those hoping to study in US are in limbo or looking elsewhere after president’s targeting of foreign studentsFor weeks, Subash Devatwal’s phone has not stopped ringing. Some of the calls have been from distressed students, at other times it is their pa…
Pressure grows on Modi and his Hindu nationalist government to mount a military responseFor shopkeeper Sunil Singh, there is only one way for India to respond to last week’s attack by militants in Kashmir.“Those terrorists and their supporters should b…
Muslims in two states fear this will allow them to become focal points of targeted attacks or economic boycottsMuslims in India say they have been fired from their jobs and face the closure of their businesses after two states brought in a “discriminat…
Narendra Modi’s BJP loses first election since stripping the region of its autonomy and statehoodThe Indian prime minister’s hopes of his party gaining power in Kashmir were dashed on Tuesday as it emerged that his BJP had lost the first election held …
Fears for the future of democracy and tolerance recede after authoritarian PM left reliant on coalition partnersIn the leafy surrounds of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a pocket of students sat beneath a banyan tree engaged in impassio…
Anger at rampant unemployment, stagnant wages and inflation led to surprise losses in Uttar PradeshIt was less than six months ago that Narendra Modi walked solemnly through the ornate surroundings of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, in Uttar Pradesh, India’…
For the past five years India has shut down the internet more times than any other country affecting over 120 million peopleBryan Akoijam had spent years building up his entertainment company in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur. Between his thriv…
The neglected but sustainable cereal crop is on every hotel menu in town as India’s government tries to spark a global craze As the leaders of the world’s largest economies descended on Delhi this weekend, there were two things on the menu: geopolitics…
With elections due next year, there are fears unrest will grow as the ruling BJP faces criticism over its alleged inactionAn imam stabbed and shot to death in a mosque that was then burned to the ground. A young doctor, walking home, set upon by an ar…
Indian PM had been criticised for failing to talk about deadly ethnic conflict taking place in north-eastern stateThe Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has broken his months-long silence on the deadly ethnic conflict raging in the state of Manipur …
Consumers, farmers and even McDonald’s struggle in shortage blamed on irregular weatherListening to the chatter at Delhi’s vegetable markets, only one question is on everyone’s lips: just how much will a tomato cost today?Prices of tomatoes, a staple o…
Relatives struggle to find loved ones who had been on train as doctors warn some bodies are disfigured beyond recognitionAs the Coromandel Express train left Shalimar station at 3.20pm on Friday, its carriages were packed to the rafters with migrant la…