By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi On Thursday, as the Indian government meets representatives of restaurants to sort out the contentious issue of the service charge that customers have to pay most times when they eat out, the BBC explains the unsavoury tussle over tips. A couple of months back, Nicole Ruth Ellis visited a […]
By Zoya Mateen BBC News, Delhi Ni ehda uthuga jawani ch janaja mithiye (The funeral will happen in youth). This is a line from Indian rapper Sidhu Moose Wala’s latest track, The Last Ride. The song, which was released in May – and has gathered over 10 million views on YouTube since – features the […]
By Soutik Biswas India correspondent When it comes to matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance and adoption, India has different laws for different communities based on their religion, faith and beliefs. But since Independence there’s been talk of an Uniform Civil Code or UCC, a single personal law for all citizens irrespective of religion, sex, […]
By Zoya Mateen BBC News, Delhi Booker Prize Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian writer to win the International Booker Prize. Her novel Tomb of Sand, a family saga set in the shadow of the partition of India, follows an 80-year-old woman after the death of her husband. It was the first Hindi-language book […]
By Andrew Clarence in Delhi & Simon Fraser in London BBC News Kashmir tensions A court in India has sentenced senior Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik to life imprisonment after convicting him of funding terrorism. He was found guilty of participating in and funding terrorist acts and involvement in criminal conspiracy. Malik told the […]
India’s SpiceJet airline said its systems faced an “attempted ransomware attack” on Tuesday, delaying flights and leaving many stranded at airports. Several flights were delayed on Wednesday, with passengers complaining about lack of service. Many tweeted photographs and videos saying that they had been waiting for hours after boarding, without any response from the airline. […]
By Vikas Pandey BBC News, Delhi Russia-Ukraine war Leaders of the Quad nations are meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday in what can be described as one of the most important meetings in recent years that will affect the geopolitics and security of the Indo-Pacific region. The group – composed of Japan, the US, Australia […]
Indian tycoon Ratan Tata is being praised on social media for travelling in one of the world’s cheapest cars. The Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group, Mr Tata is known for his simplicity. When he travelled in the Nano, which his firm launched in 2009 but ceased production 10 years later, he revived the frenzy […]
India’s top court has sentenced cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu to one year in prison in a decades-old road rage case. The Supreme Court ruled that Sidhu “intentionally caused hurt” to Gurnam Singh, who was 65, resulting in his death in the incident in 1988. The former MP was acquitted of the more serious charge of […]
By Sharanya Hrishikesh & Meryl Sebastian BBC News, Delhi Climate change An intense heatwave is sweeping through northern India with temperatures hitting a record 49.2C (120.5F) in parts of the capital, Delhi. This is the fifth heatwave in the capital since March. Officials in many parts of the country have asked people to take […]
