By Aparna Alluri and Vikas Pandey BBC News, Delhi Coronavirus pandemic When Jagriti Eadala found out she was pregnant in February, she and her husband celebrated by going on a holiday. It coincided with their anniversary and Covid appeared to be on the wane in India. But within a month, the 29-year-old found herself cloistered […]
By Ethirajan Anbarasan BBC News, Pangong Tso, Ladakh China-India border dispute Nawang Dorjay spent months on Black Top Mountain in the contested Ladakh border region between India and China, ferrying supplies back and forth for the Indian army. The 62-year-old veteran, who runs a small convenience store in the village of Merak, feared for his […]
Soutik Biswas India correspondent Coronavirus pandemic In May, a middle-aged-man suffering from Covid-19 was admitted in an intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. As his condition deteriorated, the patient was put on a ventilator. He was administered steroids, a life-saving treatment for severe and critically ill Covid-19 […]
By Vikas Pandey & Andrew Clarance BBC News, Delhi Coronavirus pandemic Five-year-old Pratham and his 10-month-old brother Ayush lost their father to Covid in April. Days later, at a different Delhi hospital, they lost their mother. Their world had changed and they didn’t even know it. They couldn’t understand why their parents were taking so […]
Last August, an Indian soldier was abducted by a group of men in Indian-administered Kashmir. His family believes he is no longer alive. However, his father is continuing to look for his son’s remains. Jehangir Ali reports from Srinagar. A day after Manzoor Ahmad Wagay first heard the news of his son’s kidnapping, police found […]
Vietnam has detected a Covid variant that appears to be a combination of the Indian and UK variants and can spread quickly by air, officials say. Vietnam’s Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long described the latest mutation on Saturday as “very dangerous”. Viruses mutate all the time and most variants are inconsequential, but some can make […]
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Is there an appropriate way for a rape victim to behave? That’s the question many are asking in India after a judge threw out charges against a man accused of raping a female colleague and questioned the behaviour of the alleged victim. Judge Kshama Joshi wrote that in photographs […]
Twitter has expressed concern over freedom of expression in India, days after police visited its offices. The police served notice to the social media giant after it labelled a ruling party tweet “manipulated media”. Twitter had applied the label to a post by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Sambit Patra. The government has said Twitter […]
WhatsApp is suing the Indian government over new digital rules that will force the messaging service to violate privacy protections. It said rules that require tracing the origin of chats were the equivalent of keeping a “fingerprint of every single message sent on the service”. In February, the government introduced new guidelines to regulate content […]
Soutik Biswas India correspondent Coronavirus pandemic India has recorded 26 million Covid-19 cases – second only to the US. It is the new epicentre of the global pandemic. The second wave in recent weeks has overwhelmed the healthcare system, leaving hospitals struggling to cope and critical drugs and oxygen in short supply. But infections now […]
