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☆ Cyclone Dana lashes eastern India as hundreds of thousands evacuate
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-25 | by ( Robert Shackelford | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Fishing trawlers are seen parked at a beach near the Bay of Bengal in Digha, India, ahead of cyclone Dana's landfall, on October 24, 2024. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty ImagesAhead of landfall, authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people, shut schools and canceled trains and flights in parts of the country. The India Meteorological Department (India MET) issued its highest red rainfall warning for parts of Odisha and West Bengal. People evacuated from Amarnagar village sit inside a cyclone shelter near Dhamara fishing harbour before cyclone Dana makes landfall, in Bhadrak district of the eastern state of Odisha, India, on October 24, 2024. Dana is forecast to weaken as it drifts west through Odisha, bringing moderate to isolated heavy rainfall along its path over the weekend.

Persons: Dana, Dibyangshu Sarkar, Mohan Charan Majhi, ” Majhi Organizations: CNN, Typhoon Warning, Getty, India Meteorological Department, Press Trust of India, Authorities, Dana, Reuters, Associated Press Locations: India, Kolkata, Odisha, West Bengal, Chandbali, Bengal, Digha, AFP, Amarnagar, Bhadrak district

☆ Husbands are legally allowed to rape their wives in India. Changing that would be ‘excessively harsh,’ government says
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But punishing it as rape would “severely impact the conjugal relationship” and “have a far-reaching effect on the institution of marriage.”Classifying marital rape as a crime, “can be arguably considered to be excessively harsh and therefore, disproportionate,” the government said. The government’s written affidavit is its clearest position yet on the issue of marital rape in India. “It speaks to India’s acceptance of sexual violence in our culture,” said Ntasha Bhardwaj, a criminal justice and gender scholar. Arguing against child marital rape in that case was senior advocate Jayna Kothari. “It’s not like floodgates are going to be opened with hundreds of marital rape cases [being reported].

Persons: New Delhi CNN —, ”, criminalization, Ntasha Bhardwaj, “, Narendra Modi’s, ” Mariam Dhawale, criminalization –, Dibyangshu Sarkar, She’s, she’s, ” Dhawale, it’s, don’t, AIDWA’s Dhawale, ’ India’s, Jayna, Kothari, Dhawale, “ It’s, It’s Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN, United Nations, Court, government’s Ministry of Home Affairs, Central Bureau of Investigation, CNN, All India Democratic Women’s Association, Getty, criminalization Locations: New Delhi, India, Britain, Delhi, ”, West Bengal, Kolkata, AFP, Madhya Pradesh

By Indian law, rape victims cannot be named. Protests and strikesIndia has struggled for years to tackle high rates of violence against women, with a number of high-profile rape cases drawing international attention. Doctors and social activists carry posters during a rally to condemn the rape and murder of a medic in Kolkata on October 2, 2024. Despite these changes, rape cases remain prevalent in the country, with victims and advocates saying the government is still not doing enough to protect women and punish attackers. According to India’s National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 31,516 rape cases were recorded in 2022, an average of 86 cases per day.

Persons: New Delhi CNN —, Kolkata’s, Vineet Kumar Goyal, ” FAIMA, Dibyangshu Sarkar Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN, CNN, Central Bureau of Investigation, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, CBI, Kolkata, Federation of All India Medical Association, Getty, Indian Medical Association, Crime Records Locations: New Delhi, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, AFP

☆ After medic's rape and murder, Indian doctors stage 24-hour nationwide strike
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-16 | by ( Charmaine Jacob | In Charmainemariajacob | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Medical professionals and students participate in a silent march as they condemn the rape and murder of a doctor, in Kolkata on August 15, 2024. The Indian Medical Association, the largest association of modern medicine doctors in India, has called for the suspension of non-emergency medical services for 24 hours across the country after a female trainee doctor was raped and murdered last week at a hospital. The IMA alleged that police and authorities had handled the murder and rape case "shabbily." Reuters reported that the 31-year-old victim was killed inside the medical college where she worked, and was found dead last Friday. Police said she had been raped and a police volunteer was later arrested in connection with the crime.

Organizations: Indian Medical Association, IMA, Reuters, Police Locations: Kolkata, India, India's West Bengal

According to state-owned All India Radio, federal forensic experts and medical officers were expected to visit the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, where authorities found the body of the 31-year-old resident doctor in a seminar hall on Friday. The case also highlights India’s long struggle to tackle violence against women, despite some of the world’s most stringent laws. Medical associations across the country joined the action, calling for a federal investigation and overhaul of security measures at hospitals. Videos from Kolkata showed doctors wearing white coats and stethoscopes chanting and raising banners reading “we want justice.”Similar protests continued in other cities across India.

Persons: —, Dibyangshu Sarkar, Jagat Prakash Nadda, Doctors “, Nadda Organizations: India Radio, Kar Medical College and Hospital, . Police, Indian Medical Association, Getty, of Resident, Association, Central Healthcare Protection, Federation of All India Medical Association, Lohia, IMA, National Medical Commission, Crime Records Locations: India, Kolkata, West Bengal, AFP, New Delhi, India’s

☆ Kolkata, India: Doctors strike to protest rape, murder of trainee medic in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Samra Zulfaqar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Images showed doctors in Kolkata and the capital Delhi holding signs reading: “Save our doctors, save our future.” In the southern city of Hyderabad, doctors held a candlelight vigil. Police officers stand outside the emergency ward during a doctors' strike to protest the rape and murder of a medic at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, India, on August 11, 2024. India has struggled for years to tackle high rates of violence against women, with a number of high-profile rape cases drawing international attention to the issue. According to India’s National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 31,516 rape cases were recorded in 2022, an average of 86 cases per day. Despite these changes, rape cases remain prevalent in the country – with victims and advocates saying the government is still not doing enough to protect women and punish attackers.

Persons: ”, Sarvesh Pandey, Sudipta Das, Mamata Banerjee Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN, Kar Medical College, Hospital, CNN, Federation of Resident, Association, Indian Medical Association, Police, AP West Bengal, Crime Records Locations: New Delhi, India, West Bengal, Kolkata, Delhi, Hyderabad

☆ Protecting women from deceitful men or criminalizing break-ups? A new law in India stirs debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Samra Zulfaqar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

But the new law has also provoked questions about how it will be applied, whether it can effectively protect women from sexual exploitation and whether it risks criminalizing break-ups. Audrey Dmello, director of Majlis Law, a women’s rights NGO in India, supports the new law. She argues “promise to marry” rape cases are under-reported and needed to be tackled through legislation. “Having such a law gives women validity as to what happened to them,” she told CNN. Potential concernsThe new law distinguishes “promise to marry” cases from rape – but some lawyers say the parameters are still vague.

Persons: Narendra Modi’s, Audrey Dmello, “, ”, Burhaan Kinu, he’d, Tanvir Siddiki, ’, Gopal Krishna, Siddiki, Durjoy Biswas, Vanshika Bhattad Organizations: CNN, Hindustan Times, “ Locations: India, New Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Varanasi, “, Mumbai, Kolkata, West Bengal, Delhi

☆ India climate crisis: Delhi suffers extreme weather whiplash as heat waves give way to record rain and deadly flash floods
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Heavy rains caused roads to flood, submerged cars and subways and cut power to some parts of the city. Heavy rain caused a section of roof at New Delhi’s airport to collapse on Friday, crushing one man to death, and injuring eight others. In Uttarakhand, video posted by ANI News shows vehicles swept away following heavy rain being hauled out of floodwaters. Meanwhile, seasonal monsoon rains usually start in June until September, bringing bands of heavy rains from the southwest that quench fields, nourish crops, and replenish reservoirs. Last June, nearly half a million people in northeast India were affected by severe flooding after heavy rains battered the region.

Persons: ”, Navdeep, didn’t, Kalyani Saha, Sunita Narain, ” Narain, Narain, “ Organizations: CNN, Indian Meteorological Department, News, “ Rescue, Reuters, Disaster, Management, for Science, YouTube Locations: New Delhi, Delhi, “, New, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, India, Uttar Pradesh, Capital Territory, Uttarakhand, India’s, Ladakh, Nepal, Lajpat Nagar

☆ West Bengal, India: Train collision kills at least five in eastern India, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“Five passengers have died and 25-30 injured in the accident,” Darjeeling police superintendent Abhishek Roy told reporters from the crash site. People gather around the wreckage of a train after a collision in West Bengal, India on June 17, 2024. But decaying infrastructure is often cited as a cause for traffic delays and numerous train accidents. More than 16,000 people were killed in nearly 18,000 railway accidents across the country in 2021, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. Most railway accidents were due to falls from trains and collisions between trains and people on the track.

Persons: Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Roy, ” Roy, Banerjee, ”, Narendra Modi Organizations: CNN, West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee . Disaster, Kanchenjunga Express, India, National Crime Records Locations: India, Kolkata, Silchar, Assam, Siliguri, Darjeeling, New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, Odisha

☆ Train Crash in India Leaves at Least 8 Dead and Dozens Injured
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Pragati K.B. | More About Pragati K.B. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A freight train collided with a passenger train in eastern India on Monday, killing at least eight people and injuring 50 others, officials said. Four coaches of the popular and often-crowded passenger train derailed when it was rammed from behind by the commercial train. Images from the accident site showed one of the passenger coaches lifted off the railway track and balancing on a coach of the freight train. The driver and the assistant driver of the freight train and a guard on the passenger train were among those killed. Jaya Varma Sinha, the chairperson of India’s railway board, said rescue operations were completed.

Persons: Jaya Varma Sinha, Ashwini Locations: India, West Bengal, Tripura, Local, India’s

The severe downpours have also left 2,400 tourists stranded in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim. Six people died in India’s Sikkim state and another four died from a landslide in neighboring Nepal’s Koshi province, according to officials. Bordered between Bhutan and Nepal, the northeastern state of Sikkim is known for its scenic Himalayan landscapes, boasting 28 mountain peaks, 21 glaciers and more than 200 lakes. The mountainous terrain of northeastern India is prone to landslides. ANI/ReutersChettri said approximately 2,400 tourists are stranded in various tourist spots in the state after landslides covered roads with debris and heavy rainfall damaged some bridges.

Persons: “, Hem Kumar Chettri, Chettri, ” Organizations: CNN, India’s Meteorological Department, Neighboring Locations: India, Nepal, Indian, Sikkim, Six, India’s Sikkim, Nepal’s Koshi, Bhutan, Government, Kalimpong, West Bengal, Neighboring West Bengal, Delhi

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Persons: Narendra Modi, Modi, Modi’s, —, N.D.A Organizations: Bharatiya Janata Party, B.J.P, Congress, National Democratic Alliance Locations: India, New Delhi Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan Kolkata, Maharashtra Mumbai Visakhapatnam ANDHRA PRADESH Bangalore Andaman, KERALA, New Delhi Uttar Pradesh Kolkata Maharashtra Mumbai Visakhapatnam ANDHRA PRADESH Bangalore Andaman, New Delhi Uttar Pradesh Kolkata Maharashtra Mumbai ANDHRA PRADESH Bangalore KERALA, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, India’s, Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh, Ghaziabad Lucknow Lucknow Ayodhya Ayodhya, Varanasi Varanasi, Ghaziabad Lucknow Ayodhya Kanpur Varanasi, Ayodhya Kanpur Varanasi, Ayodhya, Mumbai, maharashtra maharashtra, Nagpur Nagpur Mumbai Mumbai Pune Pune, Nagpur Mumbai Pune, maharashtra Nagpur Mumbai Pune, maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Telangana, Odisha

☆ Cyclone Remal: Over 1 million evacuated as Tropical Cyclone brings heavy rain to Bangladesh and India
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-26 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Tropical Cyclone Remal made landfall in Bangladesh on Sunday, bringing torrential rain and heavy winds as it continues to move inland across eastern India, toppling trees, turning roads into rivers and causing large-scale damage. Cyclone Remal made landfall in Bangladesh on May 26, 2024. Locals stand near the sea as Cyclone Remal made landfall in Bangladesh on May 26, 2024. Tropical Cyclone Remal has been churning across the Bay of Bengal since late last week prompting authorities to prepare ahead of its arrival. People are riding on a scooter as rains hit Kolkata, India ahead of Cyclone Remal's landfall on May 26, 2024.

Persons: Remal, K M Asad, ”, Md Liakath Ali, Ali, Sudipta Das, Narendra Modi, “, ” Modi Organizations: CNN, Indian Meteorological Department, CNN Weather, Bangladesh Meteorological Department, BRAC, Coast Guard, Cyclone, Indian, Sunday, Cyclones, Shenzhen Institute of Meteorological, Chinese University of Hong Locations: Bangladesh, India, West Bengal, Bengal, Mongla, Payra, Myanmar, Cox’s Bazar, Kolkata, West, North America, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Asia, Western, Central India

☆ Mumbai, India: Billionaires, Bollywood celebrities cast their vote in the world’s largest election
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, along with his family, leaves a polling booth after casting his ballot in Mumbai on May 20, 2024. Sujit Jaiswal/AFP/Getty ImagesThe “King of Bollywood” Shah Rukh Khan was seen leaving a Mumbai polling booth with his family – wife Gauri, daughter Suhana, and sons Aryan and Abram. Bollywood actors Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone arrive to cast their ballots at a polling station in Mumbai on May 20, 2024. Residents queue to cast their vote on May 20, 2024 in Mumbai, India. Voters wait to cast their vote in Chandivali, Mumbai, on May 20, 2024.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Shah Rukh Khan, Sujit Jaiswal, ” Shah Rukh Khan, Gauri, Suhana, Aryan, Abram, Amitabh Bachchan, ” Khan, “ Let’s, Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Mukesh Ambani, Nita, Akash, Akshay Kumar, “, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Stringer, Shiv Sena —, Satish Bate, Sachin Chaudhary Organizations: CNN, Getty, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Indian National Congress, Hindustan Times, Getty Images Locations: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India’s, AFP, Andheri, “, India, Mumbai’s, West Bengal, Getty Images Mumbai, New York, Chandivali

☆ India election 2024: The indelible ink behind the world’s biggest election
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Dhruv Tikekar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The Election Commission uses indelible ink, or “voter ink”, to prevent fraud or duplicate votes. Sujit Jaiswal/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 960 million people are eligible to vote in India’s election, the world’s biggest. “Indelible ink serves no other purpose,” said Irfan. The company now supplies indelible ink to more than 35 countries, including to Ghana beginning in the late 1970s. However, Ghana’s election commission recently announced it would phase out the use of indelible ink, opting for biometric verification methods instead.

Persons: CNN CNN —, ”, K Mohammed Irfan, Manish Swarup, Deepika Padukone, Sujit Jaiswal, Irfan, “, Ornit Shani, Shani, ” Shani, Prakash Singh, MVPL, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Mukulika Banerjee, Rakesh Nair, Banerjee, haven’t, ‘ I’ve Organizations: CNN CNN, CNN, Getty, Universal, Bloomberg, London School of Economics, Reuters “ Locations: Neemrana, India, Mumbai, AFP, Mysuru, Karnataka, Chennai, Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, Mysore, Ghana, West Bengal

☆ India election 2024: Voters battle extreme temperatures as intense heat wave hits region
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New Delhi CNN —Indian voters are battling sweltering conditions to take part in the world’s biggest election as a severe heat wave hits parts of the country and authorities forecast a hotter-than-normal summer for the South Asian nation. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said a heat wave will affect parts of south and east India until the end of the week, including four states that are voting on Friday. Climate politicsIndia, the world’s most populous nation with 1.4 billion people, often experiences heat waves during the summer months of May and June. But in recent years, they have arrived earlier and become more prolonged, with scientists linking some of these longer and more intense heat waves to the climate crisis. Last year successive heat waves hit India again, closing schools, damaging crops and putting pressure on energy supplies.

Persons: Gandhi Ray, ”, “, Noemi Cassanelli, Narendra Modi, ” Ray, Commision, Aditya Valiathan Pillai, climatologist Maximiliano Herrera Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN —, South, India Meteorological Department, IMD, CNN, National Disaster Management Authority, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Indian National Congress, World Meteorological Organization Locations: New Delhi, India, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Baripada, Khammam, Banka district, Maharashtra, Pakistan, Mumbai, Bangladesh, Asia, Thailand, Philippines, Mekong, Vietnam

☆ In India’s 2024 election, BJP’s main opposition appears increasingly weak in face of Modi juggernaut
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Helen Regan | Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

Supporters of India's opposition party, Indian National Congress, during an election rally in Puducherry on April 15, 2024 R. Satish Babu/AFP/Getty ImagesDemocracy under threat? Dipam Bhachech/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Modi worked his way through the ranks of the BJP, establishing himself as a respected politician. Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images Modi hugs French President Emmanuel Macron after a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, on June 3, 2017. Brent Lewin/Bloomberg/Getty Images India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on June 22, 2023. Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images Modi offers a toast during a State Dinner with President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, on June 22, 2023.

Persons: ”, Narendra Modi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Indira Gandhi, Gandhi, ” Hazari Lal Rajput, Satish Babu, Modi, Modi’s, Matthew Abbott, Hiraben, Damodardas, Dipam Bhachech, Lal Krishna Advani, Subhas Chandra Bose, Kalpit Bhachech, Kalpit, Negi Yasbant, Amit Dave, Ajit Solanki, Kevin Frayer, Saurabh Das, AP Modi, Manish Swarup, Lucas Jackson, Barack Obama, Adrien Helou, Reuters Modi, Adnan Abidi, Stringer, Mark Zuckerberg, David Paul Morris, Marco Longari, Angela Merkel, Tobias Schwarz, Emmanuel Macron, Charles Platiau, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, India's, Jair Bolsonaro, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Amit Shah, Money Sharma, Boris Johnson, Phil Noble, Anthony Albanese, Brent Lewin, Pedro Ugarte, Joe Biden, Doug Mills, Paul Mashatile, Jacoline, Imtiyaz Khan, Amr Alfiky, Arati Jerath, “, it’s, Rahul Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Indira, India’s, Jawaharlal Nehru, gunning, ” Modi, shouldn’t, Mohammad Irfan, —, Arvind Kejriwal, Altaf Qadri, Kejriwal, Atishi, you’re, Jerath, Gandhi ‘, ’ Modi, Christophe Jaffrelot, CNN Modi, Rasheed Kidwai, Rahul, Diptendu Dutta, Mamata Banerjee, Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin, ” Kidwai, ” Jerath Organizations: CNN, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Indian National Congress, Getty, Democracy, Modi’s BJP, Pew, New York Times, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Modi, Hospital, Narendra, India Today, AP, India's, Madison, Garden, Reuters, Washington , D.C, French National Space Agency, of Yoga, Meta, Facebook, Bloomberg, European, Saudi Arabia's Crown, Rashtrapati Bhavan, Kyodo, British, Summit, Qudos Bank, White, Anadolu Agency, Anadolu, United, United Arab Emirates, Developmental Inclusive Alliance, Indian, Aadmi Party, Delhi, AAP, Aam Aadmi Party, All, Trinamool, West, All India, Congress, “, “ Democracy Locations: India, Uttar Pradesh, Ramlila, Puducherry, Modi’s, Sydney, Australia, Gujarat, Ahmedabad, Ahmadabad, Varanasi, New Delhi, United States, Washington, Washington ,, Toulouse, France, Xian, AFP, Menlo Park , California, U.S, Pretoria, South Africa, China, Berlin, Paris, Rashtrapati, Russian, Brasilia, Glasgow, Red, Ayodhya, Abu Dhabi, United Arab, INDIA, Delhi, India’s, Lok Sabha, Atishi, ”, Manipur, Siliguri, West Bengal, Tamil

☆ India general election 2024: Polls open in world’s biggest vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Polls will open Friday for the first phase of India’s marathon general election, kicking off a vote in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking to win a rare third consecutive term. Challenging the BJP is India’s main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, and its newly formed INDIA alliance of parties. India’s Election Commission has imposed restrictions on media, including CNN, that limits the publication of reporting and analysis in the run-up to and during polling days. Supporters of India's opposition party, Indian National Congress (INC) during the election campaign in Puducherry on April 15, 2024. Among the most politically important states is Uttar Pradesh, home to 240 million people who vote in all seven phases.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Biju Boro, Modi, ”, Satish Babu, Mamata Banerjee, Dravida, Stalin, Altaf Qadri Organizations: CNN, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Indian, Bharatiya Janata, United Nations Security Council, Indian National Congress, Getty, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, All, Trinamool, Tamil Locations: India, Guwahati, AFP, India’s, Puducherry, Lok Sabha, Uttar Pradesh, Lok, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, Dravida, INDIA, . West Bengal, Trinamool Congress, Nicobar Islands, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Myanmar, Manipur

HONG KONG CNN —India is set to vote in the world’s largest ever general election, setting the stage for a mammoth exercise in democracy with nearly a billion people eligible to head to the polls across just over six weeks. Here is a look at how the world’s most populous country votes in the world’s largest democracy. The number of women registered to vote has increased by 40 million since the previous election in 2019, according to the election commission, while more than 20 million voters between ages 18-29 have been added to the electorate. Voting begins on Friday, April 19, and will continue through June 1, with results announced on June 4. This operation requires some 15 million polling officials and security staff during the election, with some of these election workers traveling via road, boat, camel, train, and helicopters to reach India’s citizens.

Persons: Narendra Modi Organizations: HONG KONG CNN —, European Union Locations: HONG KONG, HONG KONG CNN — India, North America, Lok, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, India’s

☆ India general election 2024: What to know about the world’s biggest vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Helen Regan | Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Under Modi, India has become the world’s fastest growing major economy, pushing the country of 1.4 billion people to near-superpower status. Here’s what you need to know about the largest election in human history:How does India vote? Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses his supporters during an election campaign rally in Pushkar on April 6, 2024. Congress senior party leader Rahul Gandhi during the release of the party manifesto on April 5, 2024 in New Delhi. The ruling BJP’s symbol is a lotus, while the Congress party is a raised, open-palmed hand.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Modi, Noah Seelam, Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, Congress ’ Mamata Banerjee, Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin, Himanshu Sharma, Modi’s, Kejriwal, Sanjeev Verma, Nasir Kachroo, Biju Boro Organizations: CNN, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, European Union, Getty, Indian National Congress, Congress, Developmental Inclusive Alliance, Aam Aadmi Party, Delhi, West, All India, Modi, Hindustan Times, Minorities, Analysts, Bahujan Samaj Party, Farmers, for Media Studies Locations: India, United States, Russia, Lok, Hyderabad, AFP, INDIA, West Bengal, Tamil, Pushkar, Delhi, New Delhi, Ayodhya, Agriculture, Himachal Pradesh, China, Lohore Sapori, Assam

CNN —Seven men are now in custody in India for the alleged gang-rape of a tourist and assault on her husband, authorities said, in a case that has shone a new spotlight on the endemic problem of sexual violence against women in the country. On Saturday, police announced that three men had been arrested in connection with the incident and that they were seeking four more. India has struggled for years to tackle high rates of violence against women, with a number of high-profile rape cases involving foreign visitors drawing international attention to the issue. And in 2013, six men were sentenced to life in prison for the gang rape of a Swiss tourist. According to India’s National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 31,516 rape cases were recorded in 2022, an average of 86 cases per day.

Persons: Anjaneyulu Dodde, Pitambar Singh Kherwar, Kherwar, Rekha Sharma, Mithilesh Kumar Thakur, ” Organizations: CNN, Police, India’s, Commission for Women, Crime Records Locations: India, West Bengal, Nepal, Dumka, Jharkhand, British, Goa, American, New Delhi, Swiss

New Delhi CNN —Police in eastern India have arrested three men for the alleged gang rape of a foreign tourist and assault of her husband, as they hunt for four more suspects in a case that highlights the country’s decades-long struggle to curb sexual violence against women. CNN is not naming the female victim, in accordance with Indian law that prevents the naming of victims of sexual violence. India has struggled for years to tackle high rates of violence against women, with a number of high-profile rape cases involving foreign visitors drawing international attention to the issue. And in 2013, six men were sentenced to life in prison for the gang rape of a Swiss tourist. According to India’s National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 31,516 rape cases were recorded in 2022, an average of 86 cases per day.

Persons: Pitambar Singh Kherwar, Kherwar, Rekha Sharma, Mithilesh Kumar Thakur, ” Organizations: New, New Delhi CNN — Police, Police, CNN, India’s, Commission for Women, Crime Records Locations: New Delhi, India, West Bengal, Nepal, Dumka, Jharkhand, British, Goa, American, Swiss

☆ India Zoo Official Gave Revered Names to 2 Lions. He Was Punished.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Sameer Yasir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The lions look bemused or even bored in photos but not unhappy. Now in a captive-breeding program in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, they are as married as animals can be. On Saturday, the authorities suspended a high-ranking forestry official who had overseen the animals for naming the lioness Sita, after a revered Hindu goddess, and her mate Akbar, after a medieval Muslim emperor. Amid an atmosphere of heightened religious and political tensions between Hindus and Muslims in the country, the lions’ names drew an outcry. Lakshman Bansal, an official of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a far-right group linked to India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party, said that when he read the lions’ names in a Bengali newspaper it “felt provocative.”“It is blasphemy,” Mr. Bansal said by telephone.

Persons: Sita, Akbar, Lakshman Bansal, “, ” Mr, Bansal, ” Organizations: Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bharatiya Janata Party Locations: West Bengal

☆ Environmental Photographer of the Year 2023: Images of flood, drought and plastic pollution
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Nell Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

All three scenes were among the winning images of the Environmental Photographer of the Year 2023 competition, and all three were taken in Bangladesh. The country is one of the most vulnerable to climate change in the world, ranking seventh on the latest Global Climate Risk Index, based on data from 2000 to 2019. It’s prone to cyclones, tornadoes and floods, and it is estimated that by 2050, one in every seven people in Bangladesh will be displaced by climate change. He adds that this year’s competition saw entries from other regions also severely threatened by climate change, such as India, West Bengal, Antarctica and Argentina. With the image, he wants to communicate the impact of plastic pollution and hopes that when people see it, they might realize the consequence of throwing away plastic and change their behavior.

Persons: It’s, Hossain, ”, Solayman Hossain, Sam Sutaria, Apu, Sutaria Organizations: CNN, Chartered Institution of Water, Environmental Management, Nikon Locations: floodwater, Bangladesh, Rivers, Kushtia, India, West Bengal, Antarctica, Argentina, Dhaka

☆ How India’s Hindu nationalist BJP seeks Muslim vote in 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Yp Rajesh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Specifics of the BJP's Muslim outreach strategy, such as the messaging it is using to target voters in these seats, have not been previously reported. The campaign is part of a larger push to woo India's 200 million Muslims, with whom the BJP and Modi have a long and fraught history. ECONOMY-FIRST AND MUSLIM VOTERSThe BJP's website states that secularism in India has become "minority appeasement ... at the cost of majority". They shared details of internal party strategy on condition of anonymity. BJP leaders such as Islam, a former India head of Deutsche bank, said the opposition has taken Muslim votes for granted and neglected their welfare.

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