Fire at children’s hospital kills seven newborns in India’s capital | News
The owner of the hospital has fled, police said, adding that legal action is being taken against the individual. At least seven infants have been…
At least 24 people, including children, killed in a fire in India’s Gujarat | News
The fire broke out at a family entertainment venue in Gujarat’s Rajkot district. At least 24 people, including many children, have died in a fire…
Millions vote amid heatwave alert in Phase 6 of India’s staggered election | India Election 2024 News
Millions of Indians have voted in the penultimate round of a gruelling national election, with a combined opposition trying to stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Four anti-Muslim claims dominating India’s election: What’s the truth? | India Election 2024 News
In April, as India was preparing for the first phase of its mammoth seven-stage national election that will conclude with results on June 4, pollsters…
India’s river islanders return home in between floods | Climate Crisis News
Yaad Ali is dreading the rainy season’s arrival this year. The 56-year-old farmer from northeastern India’s Assam state lives with his wife and son on…
‘Why should we vote?’ India’s jute workers blame politicians for woes | India Election 2024
Kolkata, India — Amirul Laskar has been out of a job for the past three months, since the jute mill where he was employed shut operations…
India’s biggest election prize: Can the Gandhi family survive Modi? | India Election 2024 News
Amethi/Rae Bareli, India – Irfan*, a tea stall owner, is convinced that change is afoot. “There has not been much traffic on this road from…
As India’s Modi drags Pakistan into election campaign, will ties worsen? | India Election 2024 News
Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s former information minister, Fawad Chaudhry, says he did not realise that a three-word post on social media platform X on May…
India’s income inequality widens, should wealth be redistributed? | Business and Economy
Rising income inequality is a hot topic dominating the national elections. India is the fastest-growing major economy in the world. But, the benefits of India’s…
India’s silent youth crisis: College-educated but poorer than a farm hand | India Election 2024
Ralegaon, India – Sometimes, Shivanand Sawale rues his choices and dreams. Growing up in Dabhadi village in the Yavatmal district of western India’s Maharashtra state,…
‘None of the above’: An election protest brews in India’s coffee export hub | India Election 2024
Araku Valley, India – Gemmala Sita is proud of the coffee beans she grows on what is among the world’s largest organic, fair-trade plantations. Her…
‘No choice’: India’s Manipuris cannot go back a year after fleeing violence | Indigenous Rights News
Lingneifel Vaiphei collapsed to the ground in agony after she saw the lifeless body of her infant child laid out on a cold steel stretcher…
Missing in action: How two key parties in India’s largest state collapsed | India Election 2024 News
Lucknow, India – Ensconced in a bustling part of northern India’s sprawling Lucknow city is Lal Kuan, a predominantly Dalit neighbourhood. The Dalits – who…
In India’s election, a flash drive, sex abuse videos — and a missing MP | India Election 2024 News
Bengaluru, India – Standing behind former Indian Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, the country’s current leader Narendra Modi smiled into the cameras. Next to Modi…
Modi wants to turn India’s election into a Hindu-Muslim war | India Election 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have decided that they will contest this seven-phase national election as champions of Hindu…
‘Children of the Ganges’ – The mallah community of India’s Varanasi | Workers’ Rights
Varanasi, India - “Hum paani ke jeev hain. We are creatures of water,” says 29-year-old Vishwakarma Sahni. Sahni belongs to Varanasi’s community of approximately 8,000…
Stitching the G20 into one Union: India’s moment
India’s G20 presidency combined multi-conceptual themes into One Earth, One Family, and One Future. While One Earth reminded us that there is only one habitable…
Will India’s election be free and fair? | India Election 2024 News
Opponents and rights groups allege repression has increased in recent years. Six weeks of voting have begun in an election where India’s Prime Minister Narendra…
‘When will our good days come?’ The Mumbai cook voting in India’s election | What’s your money worth?
What's your money worth? A series from the front lines of the cost-of-living crisis, where people who have been hit hard share their monthly expenses.…
Can Sunil Kanugolu bring India’s Modi down, 10 years after helping him win? | India Election 2024
A small crack in one of the pillars supporting the world’s largest lift-irrigation project was the opening that Sunil Kanugolu was looking for as he…