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Source: Anbarasan Ethirajan The body of an Indian journalist who had reported on alleged corruption in the country has been found in a septic tank in Chhattisgarh state. Mukesh Chandrakar, 32, went missing on New Year’s Day and his family registered a complaint with the police. His body was found on Friday in the compound of a road construction contractor ...

By:Mahima Kapoor, Workers in India’s “Diamond City” of Surat are facing a staggering and seemingly never-ending financial crisis that was set off by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, residents of Surat, India could not have imagined that a war thousands of miles away would lead to a suicide problem in their community. Surat — ...

By:Soutik Biswas Tens of thousands of women in West Bengal marched through the streets on Wednesday night in protest against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in Kolkata last week. The Reclaim the Night march was the culmination of nearly a week of frenzied protests ignited by the brutal rape and murder of a ...

A roof at Delhi airport has collapsed after heavy rain, killing one person and injuring several more. Videos online show huge pillars supporting the roof smashing into cars parked along the airport’s Terminal 1. All departures from the terminal have been temporarily suspended and check-in counters have been closed. The incident took place at 05:00 (23:30 GMT Thursday), the authorities ...

Priti Gupta,Technology Reporter, Mumbai Every day, with bare hands, Rukmini Baburao Kumbhar, collects around 50kg (eight stone) of fresh cow dung. She is part of a spiritual group that runs a small ashram (a religious retreat) in a village in the north-western Indian state of Maharashtra. Collecting cow dung is not, primarily, an effort to keep the place tidy. Instead, ...

By Meryl Sebastian BBC News, Delhi The alleged gang rape of a tourist with Brazilian-Spanish dual nationality in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has led to outrage. The 28-year-old woman and her husband, who were on a motorbike tour, had stopped for the night in Dumki district when the alleged attack took place. Police say that they have arrested ...

By Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Parents of school students who were on the boat that capsized in a lake in India’s Gujarat state have alleged that their children were “not given life jackets”. At least 12 pupils and two teachers drowned in the incident, which took place on Thursday in Harni Lake in Vadodara city. Police have arrested two people in ...

By: Nutifafa Bequine & Christian Sowada Former Miss Tourism Ghana, Afua Owusu Asantewaa Aduonum has concluded her attempt to break and set a new Guinness World Record of longest individual singing marathon (sing-a-thon).The wife and mother of three started her attempt on the Midnight of 24th December, 2023 and has brought her singing to an end on Friday, 29th December, ...

Image caption, Soon after the touchdown, Isro released an image of the Chandrayaan-3 landing site with one of the four legs of the lander on the right By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi India’s Moon rover has taken first steps on the lunar surface a day after the country made history by becoming the first to land near the south pole. ...

By Ece Goksedef BBC News At least 17 people have been killed and more are feared missing after a railway bridge under construction collapsed in north-eastern India, officials said. The incident occurred near the town of Sairang, in the state of Mizoram. Up to 40 workers were at the site when part of the bridge toppled, according to local media ...