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"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.
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This Kashmiri doctor was detained minutes after speaking to the BBC about the worsening healthcare situation in the region.
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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.
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Dramatic footage of a leopard entering an Indian school
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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
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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
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"I get offers to write 'cheap songs' on women. But I refused. I have a different goal." Meet Dule, the Dalit rapper speaking up for India's poor
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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
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A Sikh father and son have been hailed as heroes after saving many Muslims during the deadly religious riots in Delhi last week.
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'Our son was shot dead by police'
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The number of coronavirus cases in India continue to rise. But doctors have told the BBC that the real scale of the outbreak could be much worse.
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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.
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"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."
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"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.
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Dilip Kumar, one of India's earliest and most famous actors, has died in Mumbai at the age of 98 #DilipKumar
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"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.
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"We will die. We are poor people. How will we manage with our kids?" These migrant workers are trying to walk home 600kms away, in Madhya Pradesh
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"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
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RETWEET now to get reminder for the most popular news on #OutsideSource on BBC World News, Mon-Thu 10:30pm @BBCIndia http://t.co/1INc5FUkXo
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#Tesla has moved closer to its launch in India later this year by registering a company, Tesla Motors India and Energy Private Limited in #Bengaluru .
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Chetan Kumar: Indian actor arrested for tweet on Karnataka hijab row judge
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Shah Rukh Khan announces that he will provide daily food requirements to more than 5,500 families, help supply 50,000 items of PPE equipment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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RETWEET for a personalized reminder to watch #OutsideSource at 10.30pm on @BBCIndia .Reminder sent every Mon-Thu http://t.co/zmnBCQUDRV
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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
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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. 👏👏👏
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The BBC’s ⁦ @yogital , @TFallshaw and ⁦ @shaluyadavbbc travel to the worst affected areas in Delhi. Here's what they saw. #Delhiriots2020 #Delhiviolence
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Bollywood legend #ShashiKapoor of the twinkling smile and amazing "Mere paas maa hai" line is no more
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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
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Babita Photgat used a hashtag derogatory towards Muslims and had said that for India, they were a bigger problem than even the virus.
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"If it was not okay to hold the exams then when there were such few cases, then why is it okay now when the cases are rising so rapidly?"
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US President Joe Biden has said that he raised issues of human rights and the importance of a free press with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi.
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Amma lives to hug: she once hugged 40,000 people over 20 hours without taking a break.
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India and Bangladesh have evacuated millions of people as #cycloneAmphan approaches, on course to make landfall "between afternoon and evening"
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Sunny Leone ( @SunnyLeone ), former porn star, turns erotic fiction writer
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India has approved Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine for emergency use. Read to know more about it:
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India farmers protests: Half a million join rally in Uttar Pradesh
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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.
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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
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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:
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Can a painting make you feel hungry? Take a look at artist Varuna Sridhar's hyper-realistic food paintings.
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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.
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"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.
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A US oncologist has wiped out nearly $650,000 worth of debts for 200 cancer patients after realising that many of them were struggling to pay.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Crowds leaving Motera stadium in Ahmedabad during US president Donald Trump's speech #TrumpinIndiaBBC 🎥 @AleemMaqbool
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In an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus, more people, including global leaders, are using the Indian greeting of namaste.
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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
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"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
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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
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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".
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"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."
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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.
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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.
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The 66-year-old and his wife had just returned from India's Haridwar city, where huge crowds gathered to take part in the Kumbh Mela Hindu festival.
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The woman was on her way to a court hearing in a rape case she filed against two men in March.
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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:
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The film brilliantly captures the nuances of a patriarchal household and brings to light the horrors of everyday life, writes @geetapandeyBBC
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Still smiling: The women fighting back after acid attacks
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"A society which condones violence against its universities is only condoning the destruction of its future."
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"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
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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.
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'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
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“Wearing a mask and gloves and sitting for 3 hours to write an exam that will determine my whole career is going to be very difficult”
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PV Sindhu ( @Pvsindhu1 ) wins the Indian Sportswoman of the Year award. #BBCISWOTY #ChangeTheGame
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Video showing the pilot - blindfolded and with blood on his face - was described by India as a "vulgar display of an injured personnel".
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'Our home turned into a hospital overnight' How 11 of 17 members of a Delhi joint family contracted Covid-19 and came out of it @krutikapathi03 writes
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The man feeding abandoned patients in one of India's largest hospitals #UnsungIndians
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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:
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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.
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Mid-day meal plan struggles to feed India's hungry students
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Letter from Director of BBC Television to Indian broadcast ministry on #IndiasDaughter http://t.co/Hb2ddx0e5i http://t.co/ZXwx23NUzP
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India's unemployment rate rises over 23%, post lockdown, according to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. (CMIE)
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The bird is a black-necked stork - a rare species native to parts of India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
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"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.
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Some academics at a major science conference had dismissed the discoveries of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, sparking outrage from other Indian scientists.
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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.
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"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."
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Officials are still investigating the cause of the illness, which swept the town of #Eluru over the weekend.
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