India cuts ties with Turkey amid growing boycott calls over Pakistan row
Shawdesh Desk: What began as social media calls to avoid traveling to Turkey has snowballed into a major diplomatic fallout, with India suspending ties with Turkish businesses and academic institutions ReadMore
India blocks YouTube channels of Bangladeshi expat journalists and activists
Shawdesh desk; Following the suspension of six Bangladeshi television channels in India, YouTube has now also blocked several channels run by Bangladeshi expatriate journalists and social activists. These YouTube channels ReadMore
15 killed in Kolkata hotel fire: police
Shawdesh Desk: A fierce fire ripped through a hotel in the Indian city of Kolkata killing at least 15 people, police said Wednesday, with some clambering out of windows and ReadMore
India’s Kashmir crackdown sparks anger
Shawdesh Desk: Anger in Indian-run Kashmir escalated on Monday over sweeping detentions in the hunt for the gunmen who carried out a deadly attack last week that New Delhi blames ReadMore
Stampede kills 15 at railway station in India
Shawdesh desk: At least 15 people died during a stampede at a railway station in India’s capital late Saturday when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the world’s largest ReadMore
Modi’s BJP celebrates landslide New Delhi win
Shawdesh Desk: Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that ‘development had won’ as his Hindu nationalist party took back control of the capital province Delhi in local elections. ReadMore
If voted to power in Delhi, BJP will free city from ‘illegal Bangladeshis’: Amit Shah
Shawdesh desk: India’s ruling party BJP will free the city of Delhi from illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and Rohingyas within two years if it gets the mandate in next month’s provincial ReadMore
India: Man jailed for life in doctor rape, murder case
A court in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata on Monday sentenced a man convicted of raping and murdering a young female physician to life imprisonment. The killing of the ReadMore
