投稿者: Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
Gautam Adani’s takeover of NDTV is ‘serious threat to democracy’ in India, says news anchorOne of India’s few remaining news channels known for independent reporting is about to be taken over by a billionaire ally of the prime minister, Narendra Modi.I…
Nadav Lapid, chair of the International film festival India, spoke out against work that critics say is anti-Muslim propagandaA row has erupted in India after an Israeli director described a controversial film about Kashmir as propaganda and a “vulgar …
India’s entrenched north-south divide is growing as its population changes, with serious social and political consequencesThe cry of a baby born in India one day next year will herald a watershed moment for the country, when the scales tip and India ov…
Makers of Bollywood film say it is based on real information and events but have not provided any evidencePolice in Kerala are investigating a controversial Bollywood film that portrays the southern Indian state as a hub of Islamic terrorism and forced…
Big releases with usually bankable male stars criticised for formulaic storylines as audience taste evolvesThe opening of a new big-name Bollywood film was once a national event across India, greeted by weeks of fanfare, long queues outside cinemas and…
Six men charged over deadly attack on girls, aged 15 and 17, of Dalit casteTwo sisters in Uttar Pradesh have been found raped, murdered and hanging from a tree in the latest incident of sexual violence to shock India.The bodies of the girls, aged 15 an…
In largest Commonwealth country, personal affection for Elizabeth II mingles with need for recognition of British colonial atrocities Over the course of her seven-decade reign, Queen Elizabeth II made three visits to India, a country she would herald f…
Rajapaksa, 73, and his wife boarded a special air force flight bound for the Maldives, local officials saidSri Lanka’s embattled president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has flown out of the country, heading to the neighbouring Maldives, according to local officia…
Police open cases against Leena Manimekalai for ‘hurting religious sentiments’ with short film Kaali An Indian film director is facing police investigation over the poster for her new film, which depicts the Hindu goddess Kaali smoking a cigarette and …
‘Insulting’ comments by spokespeople for ruling Bharatiya Janata party met with anger in Middle East The Indian government has become embroiled in a diplomatic row with Gulf states after two ruling party spokespeople were accused of making Islamophobic…
Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed to lead ‘unity government’ after days of deadly violenceSri Lanka’s beleaguered president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has sworn in a new prime minister to replace his brother as the country reels from days of violence.The new PM…
Participants including Aravani trans art collective are shifting perceptions in male-dominated societyEven through the haze of shimmering heat and thick Delhi dust, the mural is impossible to miss. Pinks, blues, greens and yellows pop off the wall, com…
According to WHO analysis, figure for country is more than 4 million and not official tally of 520,000India has been accused of attempting to delay an effort by the World Health Organization to revise the global death toll from Covid-19 after its calcu…
Win secures status of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, a Hindu monk known for his hardline viewsIndia’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party has claimed victory in four significant state elections, in a sign of the power of Hindu nationalist politics across th…
Record number of death sentences handed out over attacks in Gujarat city of Ahmedabad, which killed 56A court in India has sentenced to death a record 38 people for a deadly terror attack in the Indian city of Ahmedabad in 2008, in which up to 20 bombs…