"We don't have food or milk for the children. How can we survive without food?"
Hundreds of homeless and daily-wage workers have been left stranded after India was placed under a 21-day lockdown on 25 March.
Security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir have been accused of torturing civilians in several villages, in the wake of the region being stripped of its autonomy.
The Indian army has denied these allegations.
A fake survey on Karnataka polls has been circulating on Whats App and claims to be from BBC News. We'd like to make absolutely clear that it's a
#fake
and does not come from the BBC. The BBC does not commission pre-election surveys in India.
#fakenews
All the words Trump mispronounced (and how to say them correctly):
- Suuchin Tendulkar (Sachin Tendulkar)
- Cheewallah (Chaiwallah)
- Shojay (Sholay)
- The 'Vestas' (The Vedas)
- Swami Vivekamanan (Swami Vivekananda)
#TrumpInIndia
The Supreme Court is to decide whether demolishing homes of Muslims who criticise the govt is justified by the Constitution. Authorities claim the houses are 'illegally constructed'. Critics say it is a deliberate policy
@BBCRajiniV
reports w
@NehaSharma_BBC
@Imo_Anderson
Haridwar: Crowds surging at
#KumbhMela
as India overtakes Brazil in Covid cases.
Officials say they are struggling to impose safety norms due to huge crowds.
"PM Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath have gone into hiding, abandoning Varanasi and its people to their own fate. The local BJP leaders are in hiding too. They have switched off their phones."
"They destroyed everything within seconds."
Hundreds of shops and houses were demolished in the aftermath of communal violence which broke out last week in Nuh, a Muslim-majority district that is among the poorest in India's national capital region.
"Our apartment complex has Covid-19 cases. To get out and take the exam will be very risky for me."
Students across the country are demanding that competitive college examinations,
#NEETJEE
, be postponed due to the pandemic and floods.
"He kept holding my hands. His eyes were full of fear and pain. I will never forget his face."
@BBCVikas
on the emotional and psychological stress doctors face in a
#Covid_19
ward
It's like the plot of a Bollywood film. Two babies from very different backgrounds, born five minutes apart in Assam, were accidentally swapped at birth.
An Indian man found an injured Sarus crane in his field in Uttar Pradesh and nursed it back to health. Instead of flying away, the crane stayed on with him and has become his constant travel companion.
Video by Shubham Verma and Aman Dwivedi for BBC Hindi.
Police said that according to a forensic report the victim was not raped.
But a Delhi hospital recorded on admission that she was both raped and strangled on 14 September. Her mother said that she found her daughter naked, bleeding and seriously injured.
PM Modi has often talked about his "special bond" with the Ganges, the city of Varanasi, and the city's people.
But as the city runs out of oxygen and medicines, many are asking where their MP - Narendra Modi - is in their hour of need
@geetapandeyBBC
Indian diplomats are firefighting a storm whipped up by offensive comments made by two BJP senior members about the Prophet Muhammad. But this isn’t the first time that alleged Islamophobia has led to a fierce blowback for PM Modi’s party and government
Are Drones capable?
The Tamil Nadu Health Ministry plans to effectively deploy hundreds of drones to sanitize hospital campuses and high risk zones.
Video:
@bbctamil
Congratulations to the women of Kathikhera!
Period. End of Sentence. - their story about working in a pad-making factory has won the Oscar for best documentary short. 👏👏👏
A BBC investigation has exposed scammers using
#LoanApps
to entrap and blackmail people across India. The scam has been linked to more than 60 suicides since 2020.
But how does it work? And who is making money from misery, fear, and shame?
#BBCEye
goes undercover
#TheTrap
On Thursday, journalist Siddique Kappan was released from a jail in Lucknow after more than two years of imprisonment. Mr Kappan, who is from Kerala, was arrested in 2020 in Uttar Pradesh while he was on his way to report on the alleged rape of a Dalit woman in Hathras.
Who is a better Shah Rukh Khan impersonator: BBC correspondent
@DanJohnsonNews
or Kolkata Knight Riders cricketer Chris Lynn?
Here they are facing off on a line from
@iamsrk
's film Raees.
@RedChilliesEnt
Imran Khan: "We had told India that if you take unilateral action, we'll be forced to respond if you do anything. But India became judge, jury and executioner."
Live updates:
In UP, some hospitals have put "oxygen out of stock" boards outside, and in Lucknow hospitals have asked patients to move elsewhere.
Smaller hospitals in Delhi are doing the same.
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana and MP are all facing an oxygen shortage.
"Please photograph the smoke, it represents my mother," a young man asked a photographer at a crematorium in Bhopal.
Bhopal reported only 4 Covid-related deaths on that day. But the photographer was surprised to see dozens of funeral pyres burning.
Senior lawyers Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju arrive at the Supreme Court ahead of the same-sex marriage verdict. The two lawyers had also spearheaded the legal challenge that led to gay sex being decriminalised in India in 2018.
#samesexmarriage
#LGBTQIA
Indians are paying their tributes to popular singer
#KK
, who died unexpectedly on Tuesday night, hours after performing at a concert
He collapsed at his hotel in Kolkata city and was rushed to a hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead
It has been 10 months since action-fantasy film RRR hit theatres in India, but the conversation around it - in India and abroad - hasn't died down yet. The BBC's Meryl Sebastian unpacks why the film has captivated viewers around the world.
Thirty million people have been affected and hundreds have been killed, as Pakistan's government declares a national emergency, after heavy rains triggered historic flooding in the country. Officials said more than 900 people had died since June.
The Himalayan state of Sikkim in north-east India suffered heavy rainfall triggering flash floods in the Teesta river on Tuesday night. Twenty-three army personnel are reportedly missing, and a search operation is underway.
#Sikkim
#rain
#flooding
"It's pretty clear the world is going to need hundreds of millions of doses, ideally by the end of this year"
@soutikBBC
on how India will play a major role in a
#Covid_19
#vaccine
This is India’s deadliest scam. But who’s behind the abuse?
#BBCEye
goes undercover to expose the people profiting from misery, fear, and shame.
#TheTrap
, coming October 11
#BBCDocumentary
#LoanAppScam
BBC reporters at the hospital say they saw people with all sorts of injuries, including bullet wounds, scrambling for treatment. They say the hospital seemed "overwhelmed", and many of the injured were "too scared to go back home".
"When my wife and child were infected, I called our doctor and did everything he advised. But what about the illiterate man in the village who has no doctor on his speed dial? You know how he lives? He lives by God's mercy."
The Indian factory making 6,000 syringes a minute.
The factory is currently producing some four million syringes a day but Mr Nath says that's still not enough given that the world needs 10 billion syringes to vaccinate just 60% of its population.
Plastic pollution has become a severe problem along India's coastline.
One group of divers in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh say what they found underwater was "heartbreaking" - so they decided to act.
India’s second wave has struck with devastating force, with more than two million cases recorded in a week and 200,000 deaths overall.
It is against this backdrop that the BBC is bringing a special day of coverage.
Follow it here:
"What kind of job is this, for just four years" - huge protests broke out across India over changes to the government's military recruitment scheme. Protesters have burnt buses and railway coaches in Bihar, reports
@BBCRajiniV
w
@Imo_Anderson
@NehaSharma_BBC
@andrewclarance
India's largest farmers' protest is still under way - thousands of farmers have been on strike since 26 November demanding the repeal of new farm laws.
The BBC spent a night at the protest where farmers have been braving chilly temperatures and rain.
'A person cannot even die peacefully in Delhi'
With the death toll steadily increasing, families are being forced to find their own oxygen and to wait to cremate their loved ones.
@yogital
reports. Video by Fred Scott and Sanjay Ganguly
A Sarus crane in a zoo in Uttar Pradesh jumped around in its cage when Mohammad Arif, a farmer who had nursed it back to health from injury came to visit. The story of their heart-warming friendship had received a lot of media attention. See full video:
Delhi police detained top Indian wrestlers, including Olympic medallists Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia, on Sunday as they tried to protest. Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik were released from detention in the evening while Bajrang Punia was let out late in the night.
"The message from China appears clear to observers in Delhi - this is not a routine incursion."
@BBCVikas
and Anbarasan Ethirajan on why are tensions rising between India and China.
Some academics at a major science conference had dismissed the discoveries of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, sparking outrage from other Indian scientists.
Ajay Barman, 22, is a fading TikTok star in India. Not because he is past his prime, but because - he alleges - he's been "shadow banned" for uploading videos on Hindu-Muslim brotherhood on the popular video platform.
"Friends, President Trump is a big thinker. He’s done a lot to realize the American Dream. Today, we welcome the entire Trump family. First Lady Melania Trump, your presence is big thing for us."