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Indian medics step up strike in protest at doctor’s rape and murder
All hospital services except for emergency care to be shut down on Saturday amid outrage over Kolkata attackAl…
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The Hindujas made headlines for mistreating their servants. In India no one batted an eye | Amrit Dhillon
Although some domestic staff in the subcontinent are treated well, for most it is a relentlessly harsh and tha…
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‘Time is life’: the Delhi clinic treating the city’s heat stroke victims
Emergency unit opens as much of north India has been battered by relentlessly high temperatures every single d…
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India elections: PM Narendra Modi claims he has been chosen by God
Indian leader tells interviewer God ‘just keeps making me do things’ but that he ‘cannot dial him directly’Ind…
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Rapunzel reimagined: the women retelling fairytales to challenge notions of perfection
And They Lived … Ever After is a south Asian book of reworked European classics written by women with disabili…
- Animals, Conservation, Endangered species, Global development, India, Rail transport, South and Central Asia, Wildlife
Why are so many of India’s elephants being hit by trains?
The use of AI and ‘animal flyovers’ could prevent hundreds of wild elephants dying each year as railways cut t…
- Bollywood, Business, Culture, Film, Global development, India, Race, South and Central Asia, Unilever, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Unfair & Lovely: the Bollywood film shining a light on dark-skin discrimination
As an Indian judge says change must start at home, a new movie uses humour to examine family prejudice against…
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World’s super-rich head to Gujarat for wedding party thrown by India’s richest person
Bill Gates and Ivanka Trump among guests expected at pre-wedding party for son of Mukesh Ambani, Anant, and hi…
- Delhi, Global development, India, Rape and sexual assault, Sexual violence, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women’s champion Swati Maliwal takes Delhi anti-rape fight nationwide
The campaigner has faced death threats and gone on hunger strike to change laws and bring rapists to justice. …
- Business, Dementia, Global development, Health, India, Society, South and Central Asia, Technology, Technology sector, World news
Indian teen invents gadget that may transform dementia care
YouTube robotics tutorials helped 17-year turn his concern for his grandmother into a device that alerts carer…
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Frustrated Indian food delivery driver heads out on horse after fuel queues
Zomato rider resorts to horsepower in Hyderabad after truckers’ strike causes fuel shortage and traffic jamsAn…
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Has India lost its sense of humour? Critics point to rise of deference after mimicry row
There was outrage when the vice-president was mocked last month by an opposition MP, but social commentators s…
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‘Pick her up and take her away’: teenager’s death exposes callousness and corruption in India’s hospitals
Fourteen-year-old Fayza Ansari wanted to be an engineer. Instead, she died this month from leukaemia, failed b…
- Air pollution, Children's health, Delhi, Environment, Global development, Global health, India, Pollution, South and Central Asia
‘The complete murder of our young’: India counts cost of another polluting Diwali on a generation of children
One in three children in Delhi is already asthmatic, with many more at risk of organ damage from breathing nox…
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Grit and glamour: how Mahua Moitra shook up the misogyny and hypocrisy of Indian politics
A divorcee who likes a glass of wine and a pair of Ferragamo shoes, the opposition MP has become a target for …