India

We spoke to Dr Chietigj Bajpaee – a senior research fellow for South Asia at the Chatham House think tank. We asked him the significance of Modi’s trip to Ukraine.

Last month India’s PM drew condemnation for hugging Vladimir Putin on the day Russia bombed a children’s hospital in Kyiv.

In India at least 116 people have been killed in a stampede at a religious gathering in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Local police say heat, overcrowding and a lack of safety measures could have been contributing factors to the crush. Ria Chatterjee has more, and a warning, her report contains distressing images.

India is more than halfway through its marathon six week-long general election, which is due to end on June 1st.

Tomorrow the world’s largest election kicks off. In India, a billion voters at a million polling stations will spend the next seven weeks deciding their future, with a winner announced in June.

A ring of steel and concrete has been thrown up around India’s capital Delhi, as farmers demanding minimum prices for their crops have vowed to break through.

We are joined by Kuldeep Shekhawat, President of Overseas Friends of BJP.

Ayodhya has been one of the most hotly contested arguments on the planet.

Rishi Sunak is preparing to fly to India later tonight to join other world leaders at this weekend’s G20 summit in India. China’s Xi Jinping won’t be there – but other leaders will be seeking to find common ground over Russia’s war in Ukraine. 

A shocking video showing two women being paraded naked and assaulted by a mob has sparked violent protests in India. One of the women filed a police complaint saying she’d been gang raped. It happened early in May in Manipur state – which has been wracked by violence between the Matai and Kuki tribes. 

We spoke with the documentary’s director Vinay Shukla and Ravish Kumar himself.

In the last month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi got the red carpet treatment on visits to the United States and France – despite persistent questions about attacks on minorities in India. 

While the West has framed the war in Ukraine as a defence of democratic values  – India – the world’s largest democracy – has stopped short of condemning Russia’s invasion. 

The brother of a British man arrested in India in 2017 has criticised the UK government for not doing enough to bring him home.

We may be enjoying the sun here in the UK, but the climate crisis is turning the heat up across the world. And it can be deadly. This year has already seen heat records repeatedly broken. Climate scientists say that by the end of this decade, almost all countries will experience “extreme hot” weather every…