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Businesses, schools and transport links are shut down across India, as protesters stage a one-day strike over sweeping economic reforms allowing foreign supermarkets to move in.
Victoria Macdonald
India manufactures one-fifth of the world’s generic drugs with about half sent abroad, largely to poorer countries. But a court case could threaten this supply of affordable medication to the developing world to treat conditions such as HIV and Aids.
The Government is to announce U-turns on controversial Budget proposals dubbed the pasty tax and the caravan tax.
At least 103 people are dead and many more are missing after an overloaded ferry capsizes in the midst of a heavy storm on one of India’s largest rivers.
India’s parliament erupted in uproar today when opposition MPs challenged the government’s reluctance to confront Sri Lanka over allegations of war crimes, brought to light by a Channel 4 film.
Police in Manchester investigating the fatal shooting of Indian student Anuj Bidve on Boxing Day have arrested a fifth person.
The Indian government says Dow Chemicals – a key London 2012 sponsor – is “tainted” because it now owns Union Carbide, the firm held responsible for the chemical disaster at Bophal, in India.
Indian officials have ordered the release of activist Anna Hazare, but he is refusing to leave jail until the Government agrees to let him stage hunger strikes to highlight endemic corruption.
I’m in India as Britain mounts the mother of all economic charm offensives. Today I was in the biggest control room for British manufacturing in the world. And that room is on the fourth floor in age old building in Mumbai. Bombay House has been the home since 1927 for Tata & Sons, parent company…
Faisal Islam describe the scene as another family joins the ranks of India’s 500 million electricity “haves”.
The Indian government has partially lifted its ban on hundreds of pornographic websites following a huge online backlash.
Campaigner Anna Hazare invokes the memory of Gandhi as he begins a public hunger strike in a bid to force the Indian government to introduce tough new anti-corruption laws.
India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands are home to some of the world’s most remote and vulnerable tribes. But now, they’re at the centre of the country’s plans to unleash its 21st century potential.
The UK has some of the highest Covid-19 vaccination rates in the world. But the rate has slowed in recent months. Why?
Campaigners have accused rich countries of doing too little, too late to stop the spread of the pandemic around the world.