The Guardian: India NewsBengal Archive, 21 October 1943: the famine in Bengal verified_publisherThe Guardian - From our correspondentDelhi, October 20 Calcutta’s rapidly rising mortality gives some indication of Bengal’s suffering, last week’s death-toll being 2,154 against 1,927 in the previous week. Conditions outside Calcutta are...
The Guardian: India NewsChina Chinese soldier detained by India after straying across border verified_publisherThe Guardian - Associated PressChina’s military has said it hopes India will honour its pledge to swiftly return a Chinese soldier, found lost along their mountainous and contested border zone, where both militaries have been locked...
The Guardian: India NewsSerum Institute Of India India at heart of global efforts to produce Covid vaccine verified_publisherThe Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondentAs the largest global supplier of drugs and producer of 60% of the world’s vaccines, India has long been known as the “pharmacy of the world”. Now, as the frenzied hunt for a Covid-19 vaccine gathers the...
The Guardian: India NewsEast India Rising tide: why the crocodile-like gharial is returning to India's rivers verified_publisherThe Guardian - Kalpana SunderAs the sunlight pierces the fog, a fisherman on a boat floating along the Gandak River in Bihar, India, spots a magnificent reptile basking on a sandbar in the middle of the river. Most people would mistake...
The Guardian: India NewsIndia News India's arrest of an 83-year-old priest on terrorism charges is an insult to justice verified_publisherThe Guardian - Mari Marcel ThekaekaraA frail, ailing 83-year-old Jesuit priest, Father Stan Swamy, has become the oldest person to be accused of terrorism in India. He is incarcerated in a Mumbai jail after his arrest last week. He is one...
The Guardian: India NewsBallet Rickshaw driver's son beats odds to join famed UK ballet school verified_publisherThe Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Lanre BakareKamal Singh did not even know what ballet was when he turned up nervously at the Imperial Fernando Ballet School, in Delhi, during the summer of 2016. But the 17-year-old, known as Noddy, whose father...
