By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent Coronavirus pandemic Scientists believe they have found “the trigger” that leads to extremely rare blood clots after the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. The team – in Cardiff and the US – have shown in exquisite detail how a protein in the blood is attracted to a key component of […]
By Deepti Patwardhan Sports writer Arif Khan made it look easy as he slalomed downhill on the artificial slopes of Ski Dubai recently. That was the moment he became the first, and so far only, Indian athlete to qualify for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which begins in February. For the 31-year-old, who hails from […]
Soutik Biswas India correspondent “We don’t have a sense of humour,” quips stand-up comic Sanjay Rajoura, in the opening scene of I Am Offended, a documentary on humour in India. He’s possibly both right and wrong. Indians have a tangled relationship with humour. They love a staple of family and community jokes. Political comedy – […]
Coronavirus pandemic As we approach the third year of the pandemic, epidemiologist Chandrakant Lahariya writes about what India should learn from its fight against Covid-19. Anyone travelling through India’s northern states would be forgiven for thinking that the pandemic is over. In the smaller towns, few people wear masks, fewer practise social distancing and […]
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Does India really have more women than men now? According to the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data, released by the Indian government recently, there are now 1,020 women for every 1,000 men. Experts advise caution while interpreting the data – the survey covers only about 630,000 of […]
By Nitin Srivastava BBC Hindi A few children are trying hard to focus in the only classroom of a makeshift, government-run, madrassa in India’s north-eastern state of Tripura. They find it hard to take their eyes off an iron-grilled window that offers a view of the neighbouring compound. One of the class teachers walks […]
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Just days after India’s Supreme Court struck down a controversial order that cleared a man of sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl because “there was no skin-to-skin contact” with the victim, another judgement that reduced the jail term of a man convicted of forcing a 10-year-old boy to perform […]
A mother’s search for a missing baby in India has caused outrage and whipped up a political storm. On Tuesday evening, the couple finally reunited with the child, 13 months after she was born. Soutik Biswas and Ashraf Padanna report. For more than two weeks now, a couple has been protesting outside an adoption agency […]
Senior executives at Amazon’s business in India have been charged after two men allegedly used the website as part of a marijuana smuggling operation. Last week, police in the central state of Madhya Pradesh arrested two men for allegedly trafficking 20kg of the drug to other Indian states. Police say the men had traded cannabis […]
By Vineet Khare BBC Hindi In July 2020, police in India’s north-eastern state of Assam received a complaint about a suspicious Facebook page. A non-profit organisation had passed on information that the page had pictures and videos of children, and that it may be promoting child sexual abuse material, or CSAM. Police opened an investigation […]
