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…
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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.…
India: Amazon faces Indian court scrutiny for labour conditions at warehouse
Amazon is facing prosecution in an Indian court for labour law violations at a major warehouse near the country’s national capital of Delhi. An inspection was launched after reports emerged of…
India: Fatal car crash in Uttar Pradesh sparks concerns over Google Maps
Can a navigation app be held responsible if a user gets into an accident? That is the question being asked in India after three men died when their car veered…
India: Airlines hit by nearly 1,000 hoax bomb threats
India’s airlines and airports received 999 hoax bomb threats this year as of 14 November, the country’s deputy civil aviation minister told its parliament.This was nearly 10 times more than…