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| Aug 12, 2026 | Election AI Deleted 5.5M Voters While World Governed Deepfakes Instead | By Joshua Mitchell Published: Aug 12 2026, 3:04 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 1, 2026 | India Locks In First Telecom Manufacturing Zone: $112B China Deficit Demands Response | By Mark Rutherford Published: Aug 01 2026, 1:40 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 13, 2026 | India Takes $39B Rafale Source Code Dispute to Modi-Macron Talks in Nice | By Kyle Belmonte Published: Jun 13 2026, 13:00 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 3, 2026 | Future Food Quick Bites: Rafael Nadal, Guinness World Records & Matthew Kenney | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Rafael Nadal’s Alpro shoutout, Matthew Kenney’s new plant-based eatery, and an LCA for Prefer’s bean-free coffee.... |
| Mar 2, 2026 | BPTP Capital City, Sector 94, Noida, Receives Recognised Sustainability Certifications | Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India BPTP Capital City, located in Sector 94, Noida, is a Grade-A commercial development offering workspace infrastructure aligned with recognized sustainability certification standards. BPTP Capital City Developed by... |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Emily in Paris, Beyond Tenders & Formula 1 | 4 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Emily in Paris’s creamer collab, Beyond Meat’s tenders, and Formula 1’s blended beef trick. New products and laun... |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Apple removes gay dating apps from Chinese App Store at Beijing’s request | Apple has confirmed that it removed the popular gay dating apps Blued and Finka from its Chinese iOS store in compliance with an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China. The country’s app space has become increasingly restrictive ... |
| Oct 6, 2025 | BPTP Sponsored Deepotsav at BPTP Astaire Gardens, Celebrated Six Vibrant Days of Culture and Bagged the Best Pandal Award | Gurgaon, Haryana, India BPTP Ltd., a leading real estate developer founded by Kabul Chawla in the Delhi NCR region, proudly sponsored and hosted a six-day-long Deepotsav celebration for its BPTP Astaire Gardens residents, organized in assoc... |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Protein Coffee, Beyond Meat x Lacrosse & Plant-Based Pakistan | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Chike Nutrition’s plant protein coffees, a sunflower seed meat alternative, and US physicians’ letter to the gove... |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Plant-Based Startup Prot Targets India’s Protein Deficiency with Category-First Block | 7 Mins Read Mumbai-based Prot has released Prot Block, a shelf-stable ingredient offering health-conscious Indians a new format of plant-based protein. Walk into metropolitan India right now, and you might begin wondering whether you have a... |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Суверенный ИИ, убийства чести и дефицит НИОКР. Куда движется индийская экономика сегодня | Продолжаем рассказывать об успехах и провалах экономики независимой Индии. В предыдущей статье мы показали, что происходило с экономикой страны с 1947 по 1991 год — в эпоху, когда члены клана Неру-Ганди пытались запустить ее рост администра... |
| Jul 3, 2024 | India: IPI calls for renewed commitment to press freedom | IPI urges PM Narendra Modi to honour his commitment to freedom of the press India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Narendra Modi (R) takes the oath as India's Prime Minister during the swearing-in ceremony at the presidential palace i... |
| May 30, 2024 | Pegasus Malware Spying on Kremlin Critics: EU Journalists, Activists Hit: Report | By Quincy Jon Published May 30, 2024 11:28AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket A fresh investigation by security researchers reveals that Pegasus malware targeted at ... |
| Dec 13, 2023 | COP28 Daily Digest: Everything You Need To Know in Food and Climate News – Reserve Day | 5 Mins Read Welcome to Day 13 of #COP28, the unintended last day. In Green Queen’s COP28 Daily Digest, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the interwebs to help you ‘skim the overwhel... |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Pokhar Ke Dunu Paar: Things Falling Apart | When a friend comes to visit Priyanka (Tanaya Jha Khan), the female protagonist of Pokhar Ke Dunu Paar, their reunion is bittersweet. Priyanka is living in a room of a boys’ hostel in Darbhanga, a small town about 140 kilometres northeast o... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Kashmir: IPI welcomes release of journalist Fahad Shah | Indian authorities must end crackdown on media in region Fahad Shah. Photo courtesy The Kashmir Walla. The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the release this week of Kashmir journalist Fahad Shah after nearly two years in prison ... |
| Aug 17, 2023 | Will Modi’s Uniform Civil Code kill Indian ‘secularism’? | Ten months before India votes for its next government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has reignited a long-simmering campaign to create a single law governing civil relationships between citizens in a div... |
| Aug 12, 2023 | Новая долина: как индийские стартапы меняют рынок венчурных инвестиций в 2023 году | В чем секрет индийского феномена За последние годы Индия совершила настоящий технологический прорыв. Кроме позиции в ТОП-5 крупнейших экономик мира и роста ВВП до 7% в год, у этой страны есть и другие условия для быстрого развития прогресса... |
| Aug 7, 2023 | Why the Hindu right opposes affirmative action in the US | When the United States Supreme Court recently outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, among those celebrating the moment were sections of the Hindu right in America. The Hindu Policy Research and Advocacy Collective (HinduPACT), ... |
| Jul 11, 2023 | India’s Bank of Baroda tampered with accounts to flog app | Dehradun, India – A Bank of Baroda officer from Bhopal zone recalls the day he and his colleagues got the order from their regional office to report to work at 7am on March 24 last year. They were given a task: sign up customers for the ban... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | U.S.-India ties grow as Delhi and Beijing remain icy | Tensions between China and India have brought Delhi closer to Washington, with India joining democracies, including the U.S., Japan and Australia, to strengthen security and technology cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. The big picture: The r... |
| Apr 9, 2023 | India’s Indigenous people pay price of tiger conservation | Officials were celebrating just hours away from several of India’s major tiger reserves when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in the southern city of Mysuru that the country’s tiger population has steadily grown to more than 3,000 sin... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | The Indian Telecommunication Bill Engenders Security and Privacy Risks | The last telegram in India was sent in July 2013. Almost 10 years after the use of telegraph faded into extinction, most regulation of telecommunication in India still finds its legal basis in the Indian Telegraph Act of 1885 and the Indian... |
| Dec 29, 2022 | How Governments Finally Threw Their Weight Behind the Climate Agenda In 2022 | LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 5: The new Lord Speaker, Lord Norman Fowler, speaks in the House of ... [+] Lords chamber during his first sitting in Parliament on September 5, 2016 in, London, England. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth - WPA Pool/... |
| Nov 11, 2022 | India urged to improve its human rights record at the UN | UN member states have urged India to take a tougher stand on sexual violence and religious discrimination as they raised New Delhi’s human rights record during a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | IT head of India’s ruling party says he will sue news portal | The IT head of India’s ruling party says he will sue The Wire for damaging his reputation after the media portal retracted a story that said Instagram took down, without review, any posts that he had flagged. “Not only will I be setting the... |
| Oct 24, 2022 | The Wire Retracts Report Regarding Meta Giving Politician Special Permissions to Remove Posts | Inno Flores, Tech Times 24 October 2022, 03:10 am Earlier this week, an Indian news outlet originally accused Meta giving an Indian politician special permission to remove posts on both Facebook and Instagram. This Sunday, they retracted th... |
| Oct 22, 2022 | India’s Wire retracts reports on Meta citing discrepancies | Wire has retracted its reports on Meta after discovering “certain discrepancies” in its news pieces, the Indian outlet said Sunday, marking what should be an end to the high-profile drama with the social juggernaut that captured the interes... |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Facebook said an Indian publication, The Wire, used faked documents in an investigation. Now the publication is taking the stories down. Here's a timeline of the escalating conflict. | Facebook claims a series of reports by an Indian news site, The Wire, were based on faked documents. The reports claimed that a member of the country's ruling party had the ability to takedown posts on Instagram. Advertisement For more than... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | Facebook said an Indian publication, The Wire, used faked documents in an investigation. Now the publication is taking the stories down. Here's a timeline of the escalating conflict. | Alex Wong/Getty Images; Rachel Mendelson/Insider Redeem now Facebook claims a series of reports by an Indian news site, The Wire, were based on faked documents. The reports claimed that a member of the country's ruling party had the ability... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | Indian news outlet Wire suspends reporting on Meta amid backlash | Indian news outlet The Wire said on Tuesday it is setting up an internal review to assess the documents, information, source material and people it relied on for critical stories on Meta — the company that operates Facebook, Instagram and W... |
| Oct 11, 2022 | Meta and news outlet’s spar deepens India’s trust deficit | Tech giants and news organizations sparring over news reporting isn’t new. Companies often complain to journalists about getting nuances wrong and usually air their dismay “off the record.” Journalists usually agree to include the rebuttals... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | SunNXT: OTT grievance redressal not a legal requirement | A representative for the Chennai-headquartered streaming service SunNXT told Entrackr that creating a grievance redressal mechanism to complain about shows and films on streaming services in India is not a requirement that has legal force. ... |
| Aug 8, 2022 | Высшая каста в индийском IT | Индийские технические работники встречаются с предрассудками и дискриминацией по признаку их касты. Подавляющая часть IT-специалистов в Индии из высшей касты. На дворе 21-й век, а в технологических компаниях в Индии вы никогда не будете рав... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Flag Code: For A Country That Doesn’t Value Gandhi, Why Should Khadi’s Role In Freedom Struggle Matter? Flag Code: For A Country That Doesn’t Value Gandhi, Why Should Khadi’s Role In Freedom Struggle Matter? ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) | I can’t understand why some of us privileged Indians are so upset by the amended Flag Code that allows the national flag to be produced in fabrics other than khadi. Indians who wore only khadi are largely a memory of the freedom-movement er... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Is India tapping undersea internet cables? Telcos and DoT won’t say | The Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius has been embroiled in a political controversy, as news reports seem to indicate that its prime minister was under pressure to install “sniffing” devices at undersea cable landing stations in the island n... |
| Jul 25, 2022 | A new Kangana Ranaut movie revisits the anger and anguish of the Emergency | A new Hindi film, Emergency, directed by Kangana Ranaut and also starring her as former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, has run into trouble even before its release, with the Congress expressing reservations about how it portrays Mrs G... |
| Jul 7, 2022 | Apple's new Lockdown Mode to secure devices against Pegasus-like attacks | Team TC 7 Jul, 2022 Apple has announced a new security feature called Lockdown Mode to protect its users from state-sponsored spyware. The new feature is currently under preview and will be available after September with iOS 16, iPadOS 16, ... |
| Jun 10, 2022 | Indian Railways Cancelled Record 9000 Trains In 2022 (Till June): Here Is The Primary Reason Why? | Indian Railways Cancelled Record 9000 Trains In 2022 (Till June): Here Is The Primary Reason Why? An RTI response revealed that Indian Railways cancelled almost 9,000 train services this year. Out of these canceled trains, over 1,900 were d... |
| May 16, 2022 | Social media platforms deny but content creators and tracking websites confirm that shadowbanning or silent censorship is real | ‘Shadowbanning’ or ‘ghost banning’ is the act when social media posts are taken down, muted or hidden from followers without informing the user or creator. A user could continue posting, but their posts won’t be visible to the rest of the c... |
| Apr 22, 2022 | Indian edtech yet to open up to tech for the disabled | Premium Content It takes our newsroom weeks - if not months - to investigate and produce stories for our premium content. You can’t find them anywhere else. Kul Bhushan · 22 Apr 2022 · 5 min readIndian edtech yet to open up to tech for the ... |
| Apr 15, 2022 | India’s drug regulator has ignored red alerts on Covaxin, imperiling millions of lives | In a shocking turn of events, the World Health Organization warned United Nations agencies against procuring Covaxin, India’s indigenously developed and manufactured Covid-19 vaccine, just five months after granting approval to the made-in-... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Govt blocks YouTube channels, Twitter handles citing disinformation | The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting announced Tuesday that the government had blocked 22 YouTube channels, 3 Twitter accounts, and one Facebook account in India, citing “disinformation” and national security concerns. “The blocke... |
| Jan 27, 2022 | Railways Stops Recruitment Drive After Job Aspirants Burn Coaches In UP, Bihar | Vaishnaw asked protestors to file their complaints formally by February 16. The Ministry of Railways has suspended its recruitment drives in Bihar after ongoing violent protests. Contents 1 Dedicated Committee Established 2 Lifetime Ban Fro... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Harvard Job Scam Led to Famous News Anchor Giving Up Passport Details, Bank Account Numbers, and Medical Records | Urian B., Tech Times 16 December 2021, 07:12 am A sophisticated Harvard job scam led to a famous news anchor in India giving up her passport details, bank account numbers, and medical records. To add, after giving up the information, she wa... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | artnet : The Embattled National Museum of Afghanistan Reopens as Afghan Artists Press for Asylum Abroad | Politics The Embattled National Museum of Afghanistan Has Reopened, With Taliban Security Negotiated by its Director "I was ready to give my life for it," says the museum's leader, Mohammad Fahim Rahimi. Sarah Cascone, December 8,... |
| Sep 23, 2021 | How (Not) to Regulate the Internet: Lessons From the Indian Subcontinent | In February, the Indian government enacted the highly anticipated amendments to its intermediary liability regime. Titled the “Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021,” which we refer to as... |
| Sep 14, 2021 | Pegasus Snooping Row: Govt Won’t File Detailed Affidavit; SC Reserves Interim Order | The Pegasus snooping controversy has taken an interesting turn with the government today [September 13] saying that the Centre won’t file a detailed affidavit for an independent probe into the Pegasus spyware row, citing “national security ... |
| Jul 26, 2021 | We Spoke to the Men Who Went to Jail For Saying Cow Poop and Piss Can’t Cure COVID | Kishorechandra Wangkhem, a seasoned television journalist from the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, has been imprisoned three times over the last three years. He has a history of speaking out on social media against the members of the ... |
| Jul 11, 2021 | Why linking Aadhaar with voter ID is a dangerous idea | Written by Vibhav Mariwala and Prakhar Misra Last month, the Election Commission of India (ECI), reminded the Law Ministry to approve a slew of pending electoral reforms. Among these was hastening the linking of voter ID cards (EPIC databas... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | UP Police Files FIR Against Twitter, News Platforms & Journalists Over Viral Video | The Uttar Pradesh (UP) police on June 15 lodged a first information report (FIR) FIR against Twitter, media publication The Wire, and others regarding a series of Tweets that allegedly showed an elderly man being assaulted in Ghaziabad. The... |
| Jun 14, 2021 | The Indian government’s failed vaccine drive has caused thousands of Indians to needlessly die | People wait in line to receive COVID-19 vaccines in Mumbai, India on April 24, 2021. Satish Bate/Hindustan Times/Getty Images Modi announced last Monday that vaccines were now free for all adults in India. But private hospitals will still c... |
| Jun 13, 2021 | Brazil's president received a fine in Sao Paulo for violating local coronavirus mask restrictions | Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro adjusts his protective face mask at a press statement during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brasilia, Brazil, March 20, 2020. Picture taken March 20, 2020. Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters Brazil's ... |
| May 26, 2021 | WhatsApp moves the Delhi High Court against India’s new IT laws concerning traceability of users | WhatsApp has sued the Indian Government over the new regulations that come into effect on Wednesday. The Facebook-owned messaging service says the new laws mean an end to privacy. WhatsApp says "traceability would break end-to-end encr... |
| May 13, 2021 | From Confidence to Chaos: India’s Journey to Its Coronavirus Crisis | At the end of 2020, dozens of articles celebrated India’s success in its fight against the coronavirus. So when recent apocalyptic images of the streets of India surfaced globally, the world was in shock. Now at the global epicenter of the ... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Former employee accuses Facebook of being ignorant of its policies to favour a BJP MP | Facebook has been caught in another controversy for being accused of showing bias towards the ruling regime. Sophie Zhang, a former employee, says Facebook stopped the checkpoint process after realising one of these networks supports a BJP ... |
| Apr 6, 2021 | Asia’s Richest Family, a Security Scare, and a Dead Suspect | A bomb scare at the Mumbai home of Asia’s richest man led to a chain of events that makes for a thriller: political rivalry, a police officer with a troubled history, and the dead body of a suspect washing up in a creek. It began on Feb. 25... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | This Politician Is Promising Free Helicopters and Trips to the Moon | As political campaigning heats up in legislative elections across five Indian states, one candidate is hogging headlines for his absurdist take on the culture of campaign freebies. The VICE Guide to Right NowGoats for Votes: The Weird Reaso... |
| Mar 25, 2021 | First Indian Woman to Run Oxford’s Student Union Hits Back After Being Cancelled | In February, 22-year-old Rashmi Samant became the first Indian woman to be elected president of the Oxford University Student Union. Among things that won her the seat was her agenda to “decolonise” her university and be inclusive to all co... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | India’s new data protection bill makes a good show of user rights — but can it deliver on its promises? | India’s Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 is likely to be placed in front of Parliament sometime this month. The underlying goal of the proposed laws is to assign rights to users over the collecting, storage and usage of their information... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Twitter 'stood up' to Trump but was 'bullied' in India, says a journalist who was caught up in the platform's standoff with Modi | Farmers throw flower petals while blocking a railway track to stop train services at Modi Nagar railway station as part of protests against farm laws, in Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India, February 18, REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Redeem now Twi... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Twitter ‘stood up’ to Trump but was ‘bullied’ in India, says a journalist who was caught up in the platform’s standoff with Modi | Farmers throw flower petals while blocking a railway track to stop train services at Modi Nagar railway station as part of protests against farm laws, in Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India, February 18, REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Twitter said i... |
| Feb 18, 2021 | Why Are Farmers Protesting in India? | As military tanks and elaborate floats paraded through the center of New Delhi on Jan. 26 as part of India’s annual Republic Day celebrations—commemorating the day India’s democratic constitution came into effect—a rally just miles away tur... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | Twitter Withholds Caravan India, Farmer Protest Accounts Citing “Legal Demand” | Social media platform Twitter, which has been accused of suppressing political voices in various parts of the world, is now caught in a storm in India over withholding the Twitter handles of farmers organisation Kisan Ekta Morcha and Indian... |
| Jan 25, 2021 | Censorship On Netflix, Amazon Prime? India’s OTT Ecosystem Trapped In Climate Of Fear | For filmmakers and those with a creative bent of mind, the last few days must have left them wondering if OTT platforms, one of the few places of refuge for uncensored artistic expression, would soon be subject to the infamous censor board ... |
| Jan 20, 2021 | Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless | The Covid-19 pandemic has delivered a large and sustained economic shock to the global economy. In India, the effect can be broadly divided into two phases--the shock of the nationwide lockdown in the months of April and May 2020, and the s... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | Will Amazon Prime Give In To Censorship Demands After Tandav, Mirzapur Controversies? | Amazon Prime Video faces legal heat after a series of FIRs and legal challenges have been filed against its controversial web series Tandav and Mirzapur in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. Following this, the information and broadcasting (I&a... |
| Jan 18, 2021 | BharatPe Underlines Banking Ambitions After Latest Debt Funding Round | Delhi-based merchant payments startup BharatPe is looking to take over scam-hit Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank amid a major focus on expanding its financial services repertoire. The company’s cofounder and CEO Ashneer Grover ... |
| Jan 17, 2021 | What India Can Learn From Covid-19 To Build A Healthier Nation | MUMBAI, INDIA - 2021/01/15: An artist paints a poster welcoming Covid-19 vaccination programme with ... [+] a portrait of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Corona vaccination programme will begin in the country from 16th January 2021. Healthcar... |
| Jan 10, 2021 | Startup Giants: BigBasket vs Grofers | In the world of fruits and veggies, there’s a mini-war brewing between startup giants BigBasket and Grofers, who are fighting to dominate the e-grocery space. BigBasket and Grofers accounted for 80% of the online groceries segment in 2019. ... |
| Dec 28, 2020 | Elsevier Wants To Stop Indian Medics, Students And Academics Accessing Knowledge The Only Way Most Of Them Can Afford: Via Sci-Hub And Libgen | Last month Techdirt wrote about some ridiculous scaremongering from Elsevier against Sci-Hub, which the publisher claimed was a "security risk". Sci-Hub, with its 85 million academic papers, is an example of what are sometimes ter... |
| Dec 28, 2020 | Elsevier Wants To Stop Indian Medics, Students And Academics Accessing Knowledge The Only Way Most Of Them Can Afford: Via Sci-Hub And Libgen | Last month Techdirt wrote about some ridiculous scaremongering from Elsevier against Sci-Hub, which the publisher claimed was a “security risk”. Sci-Hub, with its 85 million academic papers, is an example of what are sometimes termed “shado... |
| Dec 28, 2020 | Why Couples Continue to Elope in This Indian State | Dharminder Singh, 27, remembered hiding in a small hotel room for 15 days in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh, in the state of Punjab. With no access to his phone, all Singh had was his identity documents, some money and a woman he wa... |
| Dec 23, 2020 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: Rural survey finds no takers for paid vaccines | Little to no appetite for paid vaccines: Rural survey As the government, medical authorities and researchers scramble to launch a vaccine, here are findings from a survey called ‘Covid-19 Vaccine and Rural India’ that gauged appetite for pa... |
| Dec 18, 2020 | India's Top Court is Cracking Down on Critical Jokes, Cartoons and Tweets | In an illustration drawn by Indian cartoonist Rachita Taneja, who is mostly known as ‘Sanitary Panels’ on her social media channels, she drew two stick figures talking to each other. This is how the conversation went: Person 1: “What’s it l... |
| Dec 1, 2020 | India Coronavirus Dispatch: How emergency vaccine authorisation works | What is the emergency use authorisation drugmakers are seeking for the Covid-19 vaccine? Vaccines, like medicines, require the approval of a regulatory authority before these can be administered. In India, the top regulatory authority is th... |
| Nov 26, 2020 | India announces 100 projects in Afghanistan | WATER & WASTE India announces 100 projects in Afghanistan 26 Nov 2020 Editorial Team India has signed an agreement with Afghanistan for the construction of the Shahtoot dam, which will provide safe drinking water to two million resident... |
| Oct 13, 2020 | 'I’m Scared of the Gov’t': Wife of Jailed Indian Journalist Speaks Out | “Hi, I’m Jagisha. And I want to talk about my husband.” Last week, VICE News received a phone call from a 28-year-old woman from New Delhi. Jagisha Arora, a freelance journalist who writes on gender, caste and civil injustices, is a familia... |
| Oct 6, 2020 | Indian State Accused of Cover-Up As Protests Over Gang Rape Continue | A week after the death of a young Dalit woman who was allegedly gang raped in Hathras district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), the state police and the government are facing criticism for seemingly trying to cover up the... |
| Oct 2, 2020 | Inside the Secret Tibetan Force That Is Helping India Take On China | Lhakpa Tshering, 65, a former duty leader of the Special Frontier Force (SFF), India’s covert security unit, felt helpless watching a video he had received over WhatsApp in the first week of September. It showed the wreath laying ceremony o... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | International Day of Older Persons 2020: Over two billion people will be over 60 years old by 2050 across the world | By 2050, according to the World Health Organisation, the population of people over 60 years of age is expected to increase to 2 billion. WHO estimates that 80% them will be living in low- and middle-income countries. And, that’s worrisome a... |
| Sep 29, 2020 | Amnesty International Halting Operations in India Signals Crackdown on Dissent | Global human rights watchdog Amnesty International has described the government clampdown on its India operations as “unprecedented in a democracy” and a “huge escalation in repression.” On Monday, September 29, Amnesty International India ... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | How India’s Ancient Tribes Are Fighting to Save Their Forests From Coal Mining | It is the monsoon harvest season, a happy time for farmers in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, who will sell their crop to make money for the upcoming autumn season. This year has been particularly good due to favorable weather condition... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | This Civil Rights Group Fights Hate Crimes. Now, Its Members Are Being Arrested Under India’s Controversial Anti-Terror Law. | “The government is arresting our members to stifle social resistance,” Nadeem Khan, founding member of United Against Hate (UAH), a civil rights group in India, told VICE News. Late night on Sunday, September 13, police arrested UAH member ... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | A Barbershop in India Is Taking on Centuries of Caste Discrimination | For as long as they remember, members of the Chakkiliyan community in the southern Indian state of Kerala either cut their own hair or traveled more than 40 kilometres (24 miles) to neighbouring villages. They were not allowed to access the... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | Why Apple’s iPhone Struggles in India and Why it Matters | Apple, the world’s most profitable company, has one of the most valuable products, the iPhone, which accounts for 60 percent of Apple’s yearly revenue. The iPhone and its entire ecosystem have experienced a lot of success in many countries ... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | A Police Force in India Can Now Search and Arrest People Without a Warrant | The northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) announced the formation of a “specialised, well-trained force” with the power to search and arrest people without a warrant. The Special Security Force (SSF) will be launched within the next t... |
| Sep 14, 2020 | Pregnancy abortion in India may get easier with this new bill but experts have other concerns | The bill aims to extend the period of allowed termination of pregnancy from 12 weeks at present to 20 weeks. Moreover, the bill also intends to change the terms “married women or her husband” to “woman and her partner.” It was presented and... |
| Sep 10, 2020 | The Arrest of a Bollywood Actor in India Shows All That's Wrong With Media Trials | On September 8, Bollywood actor Rhea Chakraborty, 28, was arrested on charges of allegedly buying cannabis for her former boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput (SSR). SSR, 34, was found dead on June 14. Initial investigation suggested that he died... |
| Sep 4, 2020 | ‘I’m in Trouble Because I Dared to Speak the Truth’: Indian Doctor Arrested Under Anti-Terror Law Speaks Out After Release | Late on the night of Wednesday, September 2, Dr. Kafeel Khan, a child care specialist, stepped out of jail while wearing his trademark smile and a striped T-shirt. His nonchalant exit made the moment look mundane, though in reality, it was ... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Inmates Released From Overcrowded Prisons Due to COVID-19 Are Struggling | “Coming out was like seeing the light after being in the dark for so long,” said Ram Shetke,* who was serving a life sentence in the district prison of Latur, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Shetke was convicted for killing his ... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | Tortures and Enforced Disappearances: The Bloody History of Bangladesh’s Elite Paramilitary Force | On May 3, 2020, Bangladeshi photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol was found blindfolded with his limbs tied in Benapole town, close to the Bangladesh-India border. He had been missing for 53 days. In the days to come, Kajol was detained on s... |
| Aug 13, 2020 | Indian trade body seeks barring Huawei and ZTE from deploying 5G network | India’s Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), a local industry body, seeks to bar Chinese tech companies Huawei and ZTE from participating in the deployment of 5G network, Economic Times reported. CAIT on Tuesday wrote to Union Ministe... |
| Jul 30, 2020 | A Strategic Framework to Improve Coronavirus Response in Africa | The response to the global pandemic by African countries and their external partners has been hampered by a lack of coordination. As of late July, Africa has almost one million COVID-19 cases, accelerating rapidly after a slow start earlier... |
| Jul 29, 2020 | A gendered gaze of justice | Over the years though, the statute has been supplemented with legal precedents that have expanded on the scope of markers to be examined in rape trials. (Representational Image) Written by Unnati Ghia The recent order of Karnataka High Cour... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | The Days After: A Retrospective on Chinese and Indian Media Coverage of the June 16 Border Conflict | On June 16, many people in the United States woke up to the news that Indian and Chinese troops had clashed along their contested border in the Galwan Valley, a remote region that sits some 3,000 meters above sea level and frequently experi... |
| Jun 23, 2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Farmers, agritech to enjoy “big push” from India’s latest rural reforms, says agriculture secretary | A set of new laws aimed at reforming India’s agricultural sector will be a boon to smallholder farmers and agritech startups alike, the country’s agriculture secretary told AFN. Sanjay Agarwal, secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture and F... |
| Mar 11, 2020 | Here’s how Mukesh Ambani lost $5.8 billion in a day | Billionaire Mukesh Ambani lost about $5.8 billion as RIL stock crashed this week. This comes after crude oil prices fell more than 31% fearing coronavirus spread that may lead to a global recession. Not only did Ambani lost his crown, his R... |
| Feb 18, 2020 | Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN | Local authorities in India-controlled Kashmir have opened a case against hundreds of people who used virtual private networks (VPNs) to circumvent a social media ban in the disputed Himalayan region in a move that has been denounced by huma... |
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