India has hottest day on record as temperature hits 51C
India has its hottest day on record, with 51C (123.8F) in the north west of the country.
India’s prime minister has extended the country’s lockdown until at least the end of the month to control the spread of the virus.
When India was plunged into a strict lockdown – it left the country’s internal migrant workers stranded, many hundreds of miles from home.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised a bright new future for the state of Kashmir that he’s had in total lockdown for the past four days.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports from the Indian city of Varanasi – what used to be called Benares. It is the constituency of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, so just the place to begin our journey from north to the south of the country, covering what’s become a bitter battle for the soul of India – the…
We’ve been speaking to Jayati Ghosh, who is Professor of Economics at India’s elite Jawaharlal Nehru University. A well-known critic, she explained why she feels Narendra Modi’s government has failed. We then spoke to the BJP’s national spokesperson Nalin Kohli, and put it to him that the big failure of Mr Modi was unemployment.
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An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers.
The Ska Vengers, the Delhi based band who mix ska with dub, punk, jazz and rap. They talk about their music and the politics of modern India, from challenging the mainstream to love for humanity.
We report on how Bollywood is using songs, romance and comedy – to tackle one of India’s most serious development issues, the lack of proper toilets. It’s a problem that’s also had a serious impact on women’s safety across India.
When Jyoti Singh was brutally gang raped and murdered on a bus in New Delhi in 2012, the response was outrage. Mass demonstrations demanded action to halt a culture of widespread sexual violence against women.
Punjabi farmers, once the vanguards of the green revolution, are facing an ecological disaster, riddled with debt and death. They are committing suicide in their thousands and many now face a new menace – heroin.
Abused, attacked, ignored – because of their caste. They are literally the lowest of the low. This is everyday life for the Dalits – Hinduism’s lowest caste, the Untouchables.
India has its hottest day on record, with 51C (123.8F) in the north west of the country.
Indian police have arrested three employees of a sub-contractor of TalkTalk, who are accused of stealing customers’ data and using it to con them out of thousands.
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