Police in India say they have reached out for information to Elon Musk’s Starlink after they allegedly found drug smugglers using its satellite internet device to navigate Indian waters and…
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India: Teen Gukesh Dommaraju becomes youngest world chess champion
Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest-ever world chess champion after beating defending champion China’s Ding Liren in a dramatic turn on Thursday. Dommaraju, 18, is four years younger…
India: Bail for actor Allu Arjun arrested over fan’s death in crowd crush
A popular Indian actor was arrested and later released on bail in connection with a crush that killed a person at the premiere of his film. Allu Arjun, one of…
India: Marketing ethics get the spotlight
The rapper Snoop DoggSnoop Dogg made headlines last year for announcing that he would be “giving up smoke”, only to reveal that he was actually talking about using a smokeless fire…
India: Dozens of schools get bomb threats in capital Delhi
Police in India’s capital Delhi have searched around 40 schools after they received anonymous bomb threats, a police spokesperson said. The schools received emails threatening that bombs would be detonated…
India: Muslim couple forced to sell house after protests by Hindu neighbours
A Muslim couple in India have been hounded out of their newly-purchased home by their Hindu neighbours who said they would not allow them to live there because of their…
India: Pharmaceutical industry positing for global influence
Antibiotics are hailed as medical saviours.But they are increasingly facing a crafty adversary: bacteria that mutate and adapt and outwit the very drugs designed to defeat them and cure the…
India: Assam state bans eating beef in public
The northeastern Indian state of Assam has banned the consumption of beef in public places including restaurants and events. This is an expansion to an earlier rule that restricted the…
India: Taxi service apologises for driver’s gunpoint robbery
An Indian taxi aggregator service has apologised after a customer said she was robbed at gunpoint by one of its drivers near the capital, Delhi. The 30-year-old woman said she…
India: New Delhi and Dhaka tensions soar amid protests
A war of words between Bangladesh and neighbour India is threatening to spiral out of control following protests and counter-protests over the alleged ill-treatment of Hindu minorities in the country.…