The Cycle of Love: Priyanka Chopra Jonas on making a film about love and caste inequality
BBC News - India·11h ago
Priyanka Chopra Jonas on making a film about love and caste inequality Priyanka Chopra Jonas talks to the BBC about her new film, The Cycle of Love.
Mahatma Gandhi's handwritten reflections on life sold for $1.69m at Indian auction
BBC News - Indiaby Nikita Yadav·18h ago
- Published A rare collection of handwritten notes by Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi has been sold for $1.69m (£1.24m) at an auction in Mumbai city.
Broken toilets, leaking roofs: Why India's 'cockroach' party wants to fix schools
BBC News - Indiaby Geeta Pandey·1d ago
- Published The squat one-storey building has recently received a fresh coat of paint and looks respectable from a distance.
Jharkhand: Protesters call off agitation over exam irregularities in Indian state
BBC News - Indiaby Anahita Sachdev; Anand Dutt·1d ago
- Published Protesters in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand have called off their 26-day agitation over alleged irregularities in government exams after the state agreed to several of their...
L'Oreal, Estée Lauder: India's Gen Z are driving up a mega boom in its beauty market
BBC News - Indiaby Nikhil Inamdar·2d ago
- Published India's beauty brands have been drawing a lot of interest from global capital recently.
Twisha Sharma: Husband and mother-in-law charged in Indian bride's death
BBC News - Indiaby Geeta Pandey; Vishnukant Tiwari·2d ago
- Published India's federal police have filed charges in the case of a 33-year-old model and actor who was found dead in her matrimonial home in May just five months after her wedding.
Pranab Doley in Assam: The Indian activist jailed after taking on a hotel in Kaziranga
BBC News - Indiaby Zoya Mateen; Dilip Kumar Sharma·3d ago
- Published On 30 July, the day Pranab Doley was set to be released from jail, his father and lawyer arrived at the prison in the northeastern Indian state of Assam to take the activist home.
CJI Surya Kant: Why Indian law students don't want top judge at their graduation ceremony
BBC News - Indiaby Geeta Pandey·3d ago
- Published India's top judges often make news for their rulings or pronunciations on weighty matters of law.
UPI: India built a digital payments miracle. Now comes the bill.
BBC News - Indiaby Soutik Biswas·5d ago
- Published For most Indians, paying by Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has become almost absurdly routine. Scan a QR code, tap a few buttons and the money moves instantly.
Air India: What a reported cannabis-positive pilot test really tells us
BBC News - Indiaby Soutik Biswas·7d ago
- Published Reports that an Air India pilot tested positive for cannabis after a flight sound like the sort of finding that should make an aviation investigator sit up.
Aditya-L1: Indian solar mission's new findings throw light on enduring Sun mysteries
BBC News - Indiaby Geeta Pandey·7d ago
- Published One of the most enduring mysteries that has been puzzling scientists forever is how the Sun's outer atmosphere - the corona - is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.
Vikram's viral video with lar gibbon sparks India wildlife investigation
BBC News - Indiaby Zoya Mateen; Vijayanand Arumugam·8d ago
- Published A video posted by a Tamil film star showing him cuddling an endangered gibbon has triggered an investigation by Indian wildlife officials over how he came into contact with the animal.
Assam: How a 97-year-old escaped deadly Indian floods on a banana log raft
BBC News - Indiaby Soutik Biswas·10d ago
- Published Well past midnight on 19 July, as floodwaters surged through a village in India's northeastern state of Assam, Bornali Baruah and her husband were trying to save his 97-year-old mother.
Maharashtra's Ladki Bahin: Why India's largest cash-transfer scheme for women is under scrutiny
BBC News - Indiaby Mayuresh Konnur; Zoya Mateen·12d ago
- Published Until two years ago, Nirmala Bawaskar had no bank account of her own. A widow who works as a housemaid in Maharashtra's Sambhajinagar district, she signed documents with a thumbprint...
Bringing 'Green Boots' home 30 years after climber died on Everest
BBC News - Indiaby Jehangir Ali·14d ago
- Published For 30 years, a dead body known as "Green Boots" has been lying in the snow, nestled under an overhanging rock, not far from Mount Everest's summit.
Protesters celebrate resignation of India's education minister
BBC News - India·27d ago
Watch: Protesters celebrate resignation of India's education minister Protesters in India are celebrating after the resignation of the country's education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan.
Struggle to even get inside: BBC attends celebration at India 'cockroach' protest site
BBC News - India·27d ago
Struggle to even get inside: BBC reports from celebration at 'cockroach' protest site in India Crowds at Delhi's Jantar Mantar are elated after India's education minister stepped down after weeks...
India cockroach protests: Videos of officers firing 'pellet guns'
BBC News - India·28d ago
India cockroach protests: Videos show officers firing 'pellet guns' Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Indian capital Delhi as part of the cockroach protests, calling for...
CJP Jantar Mantar: Why have thousands taken to the streets? India's cockroach protest explained
BBC News - India·28d ago
Why have thousands taken to the streets? India's 'cockroach' protest explained In India, tens of thousands of Gen Z protesters have taken to the streets of the capital Delhi and other cities...
India: Liquor store employee narrowly escapes leopard attack
BBC News - India·29d ago
Liquor store employee narrowly escapes leopard attack CCTV footage from 20 July showed the moment a leopard entered a liquor store and attacked a salesman in Rajasthan, north western India.
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