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India’s annual 26 January Republic Day celebrations featured spectacular military and cultural pageantry, despite being curtailed by Covid restrictions, but in New Delhi thousands of protesting farmers threatened to overshadow the celebrations Continue…
Read MoreFarmers protesting against new agriculture laws enter grounds of historic fort as violence breaks outFarmers protesting against new agriculture laws in India broke through police barricades around the capital and entered the grounds of Delhi’s historic…
Read MoreClash in Sikkim happened days before talks aimed at ending tensions in another border in LadakhIndian and Chinese soldiers brawled last week along a disputed border, Indian officials have said, as a months-long standoff between the two countries contin…
Read MoreClash in Sikkim happened days before talks aimed at ending tensions in Ladakh border disputeIndian and Chinese soldiers were injured in another violent clash along the Himalayan border last week, as tensions between the two nuclear powers showed no sig…
Read MoreThere’s a growing backlash against Narendra Modi’s autocratic tendencies and the plutocrat donors who fund his party Narendra Modi, India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister, has probably never read Lord Hailsham. But maybe he should. The former lord ch…
Read MorePolice admit they have no evidence against Manuwar Faruqui, who has been held for three weeksA Muslim comedian in India has been detained for more than three weeks for allegedly insulting Hindu gods during a standup routine that he did not perform.Fell…
Read MoreThe video of the Russian leader’s $1bn secret palace reveals his terrible taste as well as his corruptionHero of the week, at the front of an exceptionally competitive field – the 22-year-old inauguration poet Amanda Gorman, the health workers who have…
Read MoreGopalan Balachandran said he wants to celebrate with her in person once it’s safe to travelKamala Harris’s Indian uncle plans to visit the United States to congratulate her once he receives a Covid-19 vaccine, he said on Thursday, after his niece becam…
Read MoreDirector of Tandav agrees to remove scenes deemed to insult Hindu gods and office of Indian prime ministerAn Indian political drama on Amazon Prime has been forced to edit out scenes that were accused of being an “insult to Hindu gods”, the first time …
Read MoreLow uptake fuelled by fears over safety of vaccine and spread of misinformation Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia’s Covid-19 vaccine drive has been hampered by turnout as low as 22% in some states, as fears over the safe…
Read MoreThe adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel is coming to Netflix – one of a growing number of films from the region snapped up by the streaming giantsThe White Tiger, the film adaptation of the Booker prize-winning book by Aravind Adiga, mar…
Read MoreDespite government loans and staff trickling back to work, the pandemic has made survival precarious for the city’s vendorsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOn a normal working day, Venkateshwara Rao would be ready by 4pm, sta…
Read MoreNarendra Modi congratulates team’s ‘remarkable grit’ after India beats Australia in fourth Test to win seriesAs Indians exploded with joy over their cricket team’s history-making win at the Gabba stadium in Brisbane, cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar …
Read MoreIndia launches bid to vaccinate 300m people amid fears over efficacy of domestically produced vaccineEmerging from Holy Family hospital in New Delhi, Ram Verma, a sanitation worker, breathed a deep sigh of relief. As one of the first in India to receiv…
Read MoreNathuram Godse rehabilitated from traitor to patriot for many, as Gandi’s vision of secular India eroded by ruling BJP Last Sunday, in a nondescript building in the India city of Gwalior, 200 miles south of Delhi, a large crowd of men gathered. Most wo…
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