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Karnataka hijab controversy is polarising its classrooms
That's the question troubling Saima, whose name has been changed on request. Last week, the 20-year-old was one of several hijab-clad Muslim women who watched anxiously as hundreds of Hindu students protested against Islamic…
Indian gov’t bans 54 Chinese apps on security concerns: Report
The move comes as a long-running dispute between the two nuclear-armed nations remains unresolved.
India has banned 54 Chinese apps in a new order citing security concerns, according to a local newspaper report, in the latest instance of…
Lightning in India: A bolt from the blue that kills thousands
Last March, four gardeners working in a condominium in Gurgaon, a suburb near the Indian capital, Delhi, took shelter under a tree during a downpour.
Within minutes, an orange flash raced down the trunk followed by pealing thunder.…
Karnataka hijab row: The woman who is the face of the fight to wear headscarf
Muskaan Khan has inadvertently become the face of resistance for young Indian Muslim women amid an escalating row over hijabs or headscarves.
In a video that has gone viral, the 19-year-old student can be seen entering her…
Indian army rescues man trapped in hill crevice for 48 hours
Mountaineers from the Indian army have rescued an injured trekker who was stranded without food and water for nearly 48 hours in the cleft of a steep hill in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
R Babu, 23, slipped and fell…
Lata Mangeshkar: India singing legend dies at 92
Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's most venerated singers who sang tens of thousands of songs in her lifetime, has died at the age of 92.
She had been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai city in January after testing positive for Covid-19.…
India plans to launch digital rupee this year
India's finance minister has said the country will launch a digital version of the rupee as early as this year.
In her annual budget speech, Nirmala Sitharaman also outlined plans for a 30% tax on income from digital assets.…
Facial recognition taken to court in India’s surveillance hotspot
Lawsuit challenges facial recognition as unconstitutional in Telangana, the state using the most facial recognition systems.
It was lockdown in the Indian city of Hyderabad when activist S Q Masood was stopped on the street by police who…
Hindu monk in India pleaded guilty to call for ‘genocide’ of Muslims
Police called Yati Narsinghanand Giri, an outspoken supporter of far-right nationalists who also heads a Hindu monastery, a ‘repeat offender’.
Indian authorities have charged a Hindu monk with inciting religious violence after he called…
Four Indian states invite Tesla to set shops in their provinces
At least four states tweeted to Elon Musk over the weekend to set up shop with them after he flagged gov’t problems.
Politicians from at least four Indian states took to Twitter to invite Tesla Inc. to set up shop in their provinces,…