Indian police have visited a Twitter office to serve notice, after the social media giant labelled a tweet as “manipulated media”. The incident comes after Twitter applied the label to a tweet by ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Sambit Patra. It comes amid tense relations between the Indian government and Twitter. In April, India […]
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Rajpath (King’s Avenue), in the centre of the Indian capital, is to Delhi’ites what Central Park is to New Yorkers, or the Champs-Elysees to Parisians. The manicured lawns on either side of the wide ceremonial boulevard are a place for thousands to gather to soak up the winter sun […]
Coronavirus pandemic An Indian couple reportedly chartered a plane and held a mid-air wedding with more than 160 guests in an effort to escape coronavirus restrictions. Video footage posted on social media appeared to show the couple and their guests packed into the hired jet. The state of Tamil Nadu, where the flight was said […]
By Dulcie Lee & Alex Kleiderman BBC News Coronavirus pandemic The Pfizer and AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines are highly effective against the variant identified in India after two doses, a study has found. Two jabs of either vaccine give a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as they do for the […]
By Soutik Biswas India correspondent Coronavirus pandemic IMAGE COPYRIGHTAFPimage captionIndia has seen thousands of cases of “black fungus” affecting recovered and recovering Covid-19 patients India has reported more than 8,800 cases of deadly “black fungus” in a growing epidemic of the disease. The normally rare infection, called mucormycosis, has a mortality rate of 50%, with […]
By Shruti Menon BBC Reality Check Reality Check India’s largest vaccine producer is struggling to meet domestic demand and says it won’t be making doses available for export until the end of the year. The Indian government aims to ramp up production to cope with the pandemic, with a pledge to produce at least two […]
Coronavirus pandemic India’s government has instructed social media companies to remove any content that refers to the “Indian variant” of Covid-19. The IT ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) listed the variant as B.1.617 and any reference to “Indian” was false. Geographical terms have been used to describe a number of other variants, including […]
By Suranjana Tewari BBC News Coronavirus pandemic South Asia, a region with a combined population of nearly two billion people, is facing its worst health crisis in recent memory. India and its neighbours are seeing a ferocious spike in coronavirus infections, leaving smaller countries like Sri Lanka particularly vulnerable. However, China is ramping up its […]
Just two months before the Olympics are set to begin, several regions of Japan are under emergency orders due to the coronavirus. Stephen Wade and Yuri Kageyama TOKYO (AP) — The IOC vice president in charge of the postponed Tokyo Olympics said Friday the games would open in just over two months even if the […]
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi An Indian court has cleared Tarun Tejpal, the former editor of Tehelka magazine, of charges of raping a colleague. His unnamed accuser had alleged that he assaulted her in an elevator at a Tehelka event in Goa in November 2013. He was arrested and spent seven months in jail […]
