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The virus trains: How lockdown chaos spread Covid-19 across India
- Asia-Pacific
- December 29, 2020, 01:00
Special trains operated by the government to ease suffering and counteract a disastrous lack of planning instead played a significant role in(...)

Invisible catastrophe: How Covid-19 threatens to devastate rural India
- Asia-Pacific
- August 18, 2020, 13:37
Where better to seek sanctuary from a virus roaring through a crowded metropolis than a remote mountainside with views of the Himalayas? This was the(...)

Catherine Freeman obituary: TV producer who shook up BBC’s ‘male club’
- People
- August 8, 2020, 01:00
Born: August 10th, 1931 Died: July 15th, 2020 The BBC in the 1950s was not a hostile place for women, but it was slow to recognise their abilities. F(...)

‘Deaths will rise ... and rise sharply.’ India’s deepening coronavirus crisis
- Asia-Pacific
- July 27, 2020, 12:42
Narendra Modi has cultivated a reputation for making dramatic decisions to respond to India’s complex policy challenges. Addressing the nation on prim(...)

India’s coronavirus cases surge past one million mark
- Asia-Pacific
- July 19, 2020, 16:40
India hit a milestone at the weekend that it had made great sacrifices to avoid: recording more than one million coronavirus infections. The virus ha(...)

Almost 4m displaced, 189 dead over flooding in India and Nepal
- Asia-Pacific
- July 19, 2020, 10:53
Nearly four million people in India’s northeastern state of Assam and neighbouring Nepal have been displaced by heavy flooding from monsoon rains, wit(...)

Nepal: At least 40 people killed in floods and landslides
- Asia-Pacific
- July 11, 2020, 16:33
Heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides that killed at least 40 people and displaced thousands in western Nepal, officials said on Saturday(...)

India accuses China of preparing attack on border troops
- Asia-Pacific
- June 19, 2020, 18:51
India has accused Chinese troops of meticulously preparing an attack on its soldiers on the treacherous Himalayan border, claiming they erected a tent(...)

Coronavirus: Cases soar in India, but it eases lockdown anyway
- Asia-Pacific
- May 31, 2020, 17:51
Its coronavirus cases are skyrocketing, putting it among the world’s most worrisome pandemic zones in recent weeks. Nonetheless, India is reopening, l(...)

Millions of working poor in India exposed by pandemic
- Asia-Pacific
- May 4, 2020, 16:42
Gopal Das has laboured on construction sites in Mumbai for nearly two decades, helping build the office towers of India’s bustling financial capital. (...)