By Nikhil Inamdar BBC Business Correspondent, Mumbai India’s largest conglomerates have been snapping up stakes in high-end, homegrown designer brands to help them scale up and go global. The trend, experts say, points to a luxury retail market on the cusp of maturity. In October, Reliance Brands Limited (RBL), a subsidiary of the the oil-to-telecoms […]
Soutik Biswas India correspondent Indian farmers protest 2020 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to repeal the contentious farm laws is, at once, a strategic and political move and a belated admission of its haste, high-handedness and lack of legislative acumen. The laws aimed at deregulating the market had whipped up an unprecedented firestorm […]
A monologue by one of India’s top comedians has outraged some in the country, prompting complaints to police and criticism from fellow performers. During his show in the US, Vir Das described a country of two sides where people “worship women during the day but gang rape them at night”. In response to the strong […]
An Indian court has granted bail to two journalists who were detained in India’s north-eastern state of Tripura for “spreading communal disharmony”. They were reporting on religious tensions in Tripura following recent attacks on mosques and properties owned by Muslims. Journalists and media right groups had criticised their detention and called for their immediate release. […]
By Rajini Vaidyanathan BBC South Asia Correspondent COP26 India is accused of watering down a COP26 climate deal to cut coal consumption even as toxic air chokes its national capital, Delhi. Air quality in the city has been hovering between “severe” and “hazardous” for several days now. The Delhi government on Sunday announced that […]
By Shruti Menon BBC Reality Check COP26 India’s Prime Narendra Modi has set his country a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2070, a significantly later deadline than many other countries attending the Glasgow climate summit. India also set itself a deadline of 2030 to reduce its emissions by one billion tonnes. After […]
Heavy showers and thunderstorms have caused severe flooding in the southern Indian city of Chennai. No deaths have been reported, but officials in the state of Tamil Nadu, of which Chennai is the capital, have issued warnings to evacuate people from low-lying areas. Local media footage showed uprooted trees and cars submerged as water quickly […]
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By Shruti Menon BBC Reality Check COP26 India’s Prime Narendra Modi has set his country a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2070, a significantly later deadline than many other countries attending the Glasgow climate summit. India is the world’s third largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2), after China and the United […]
Puneeth Rajkumar, a prominent film actor from southern India, has died at the age of 46. The star of Kannada cinema worked on more than 29 films and won the national award for “the best child artist” earlier in his career. Rajkumar died of a heart attack in Bengaluru on Friday, his manager confirmed. Offices […]
