Ria Chatterjee

It’s been dubbed the ‘YouTube election’ with parties enlisting the country’s army of influencers, often for money, to boost their chances of winning by mobilising the all-important youth vote. 

India is more than halfway through its marathon six week-long general election, which is due to end on June 1st.

India is in the middle of a seismic general election, with around a billion people voting at a million polling stations over a seven-week period. Results aren’t expected until June, but most commentators assume Prime Minister Narendra Modi will comfortably hold onto power. His opponents claim India is on its way to dictatorship. But the…

To the biggest elections in the world now, in India, where opposition parties say the government is using arrests and detentions to stop them campaigning – calling it a “nail in the coffin of free and fair elections”.

Marseille has long held its unhappy reputation as one of Europe’s crime capitals.

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will meet the Met Police Commissioner tomorrow to discuss community relations. 

Thousands of people are taking to the streets of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, angry at the impact mass tourism is having on the Spanish archipelago. 

Tomorrow the world’s largest election kicks off. In India, a billion voters at a million polling stations will spend the next seven weeks deciding their future, with a winner announced in June.

Lesley Sackey is a former gold-medal winning boxer. She’s also a survivor of domestic abuse.

Turkey’s president Tayyep Erdogan has said he will improve his party’s track record after it suffered significant losses in local elections, giving the opposition, and his main rival, the mayor of Istanbul, a huge boost.

Since Zara Aleena’s murder nearly two years ago, her family has campaigned for change in the justice system. Probation failures that meant her killer was released just over a week before Zara’s death were exposed in a serious further offences review. But her aunt has told Channel 4 News that according to probation services, that…

Nine days ago the Prince and Princess of Wales released that photograph of Kate with their children. The Mother’s Day picture was supposed to destroy the seemingly endless conspiracy theories about Kate’s health after her abdominal operation in January. But the image was doctored, and even though she admitted editing it, the conspiracy theories got…

Within the last few minutes the first official result has been released declaring President Putin has been re-elected, with 87.8 percent of the votes. Earlier today the third and final day of voting saw long queues at voting stations in Russia, and at Russian embassies across Europe. In a bid to get round the repression…

It’s the country’s busiest road. Of all UK motorway traffic, 15 per cent is on the M25 circling London. It became infamous for almost constant traffic jams. But today something more unusual was happening – the first ever planned daytime shutdown since it opened in 1986, for upgrading works. Passing through six counties, the M25…

There have been a number of protests across the country, coming just weeks ahead of its general election.