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Gandhi statue unveiled in Parliament Square, London

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Round-the-world solar plane arrives in India

Solar Impulse 2 has touched down in India, completing the second leg of its record-breaking round-the-world attempt. The solar-powered plane arrived

India

Solar Impulse takes off from Oman on second-leg of record breaking trip

A solar powered plane has started the second leg in its attempt to fly round the world without using fossil-derived fuels. Solar Impulse 2 took off

India

India police make arrests following last week's lynching of a rape suspect

Police in India have arrested 22 people in connection with last week’s lynching of a rape suspect. The individuals have been charged with

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India

Lynch mobs kill two sex attack suspects in India

Amid a fevered atmosphere over attacks on women, two men suspected of assaulting women have been set upon by crowds in northern India and killed.

India

Rapist's TV interview blaming women for sexual assaults banned in India

Television documentary “India’s daughter” which features an interview with a man convicted of gang-raping and killing a woman in Dehli has been

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Holi Festival in India

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Indian rapist says women to blame for being sexually assaulted

Boys and girls are not equal. Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night

Cinema

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is back

Following the success of the the first film which became a surprise box office hit, ‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ follows a group of

India

India: Japanese student says she was raped by 'tour guide'

A Japanese student says she was raped by a man claiming to be a tour guide in India, prompting the latest police probe into sexual assaults in the

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India Art Fair in New Delhi draws art-hungry middle class

Visitors to the seventh edition of the India Art Fair in New Delhi were able to admire the works of more than a thousand different artists from all

India

India carries out its first double hand transplant

Doctors in India have successfully carried out the country’s first double hand transplant. The 30-year-old patient received the hands of a

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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