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US President Obama takes part in India's annual Republic Day festivities

26/01/2015

Culture news

Kochi Bienale: colonial echoes in contemporary art in Kerala

The Kochi-Muziris Art Biennale, one of the biggest events of the cultural calender of south west India, is a meeting of the past and the present

26/01/2015

India

Obama first US president to attend India National Day parade

Barack Obama is the first US president to be guest of honour at India's annual Republic Day parade, a flamboyant display of the South Asian nation's military might and cultural diversity.

26/01/2015

India

US and India seal civil nuclear deal

The United States and India have sealed a civil nuclear deal. US President Barack Obama held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New

25/01/2015

India

Uber rape case drives expansion of all-female cab services in New Delhi

With violence against women in India coming more and more to the fore, one company, Cabs for Women by Women, a service in the capital, New Delhi

19/01/2015

India

Thousands of Indians flee rising violence in Kashmir

Thousands of Indians have fled their homes as fighting between India and Pakistan intensified in Kashmir. The violence has spread along a two hundred

06/01/2015

India

India arrests five men suspected of gang rape of Japanese tourist

Five men have been arrested in India in connection with the kidnap and gang rape of a Japanese woman. The assaults took place over one month, before

03/01/2015

India

Number of rapes reported increased by one third in Delhi

New figures released by police show the number of rapes reported has increased by nearly a third in Delhi, two years on from the fatal gang rape of a

02/01/2015

India

Asian tsunami survivors return to disaster scene on 10th anniversary

All around the Indian Ocean, other survivors and relatives of the tsunami victims have been returning to the scene of the disaster to mark the tenth anniversary.

26/12/2014

India

10 years after Indian Ocean tsunami special memorial services are held

It was the most destructive tsunami in history, killing tens of thousands of people in 11 countries and leaving millions homeless. Now, a decade

25/12/2014

India

Memories of Indian Ocean tsunami haunt survivors

The Indian Ocean quake and tsunami ten years ago caused huge numbers of deaths across coastal villages and towns but also devastated the lives of

25/12/2014

India

Dozens killed in rebel attack on tribal villages in India's Assam state

More than 60 people have been killed in an attack by separatist rebels in India’s north-eastern Assam state. Two villages of mainly tribespeople who

24/12/2014

India

Candlelit vigil on second anniversary of fatal gang rape that shocked India

Dozens of people gathered in the Indian capital New Delhi on Tuesday to condemn violence against women on the second anniversary of the brutal gang

16/12/2014

India

India clamps down on unregistered taxis after Uber rape claim

09/12/2014

India

Nobel prizewinners Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi: united for children's rights

By both being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, they became united by the in the same struggle for children’s rights: Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan

08/12/2014

India

India: Uber online taxi-booking service is banned in Delhi as driver is accused of rape

There have been angry scenes outside a court in Delhi as crowds tried to attack a taxi driver accused of rape by a female passenger in a case that

08/12/2014

India

India Uber taxi driver arrested after rape allegation

Students in Delhi angry about an increase in sexual violence against women have clashed with police outside their headquarters. Meanwhile a taxi

07/12/2014

Cinema

Bhopal: world's worst industrial disaster brought to big screen 30 years on

Thirty years on, ‘Bhopal, a prayer for rain’ dramatises the story of the world's worst industrial disaster, when cyanide gas from an American

04/12/2014

India

Bhopal survivors still demanding justice on 30th anniversary of gas leak tragedy

Thirty years after the world's worst industrial disaster, survivors of the Bhopal gas leak have taken to the streets of the Indian city to demand justice.

03/12/2014

India

Thirty years on, the Union Carbide gas leak continues to poison lives in Bhopal

In 1984 a pesticide leak from a factory owned by US chemical company Union Carbide killed thousands in the Indian city of Bhopal. Thirty years on

02/12/2014

India

Praise for Indian sisters after fightback video goes viral

01/12/2014

India

Indian sect leader in custody after violence resisting arrest

20/11/2014

India

India PM Modi appoints Yoga minister

10/11/2014

World

From Cairo streets to Indian villages, meet the life-changing WISE winners

30/10/2014

India

Two held over suspected gang rape in india

03/09/2014

India

India: ourage over senior minister's Delhi bus gang rape remarks

22/08/2014