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An Indian air force strike on 26 February on a suspected militant training camp in Pakistan has flared up tensions between the two nuclear powers. The next day, Pakistan and India exchanged fire along their contested border in Kashmir. Despite this, both countries have said they do not want the conflict to escalate beyond this.
Around 200 others – many of whom worked at a tea plantation – have been hospitalised.
Police in the Indian state of Kerala used teargas against protesters angry that two women attempted to enter the Sabarimala Temple. In September, the Supreme Court lifted a ban on women aged 10-50 from entering the temple.
Two men set a 20-year-old woman on fire in northern India. Two days prior she had lodged a complaint with authorities. The two men came to the field where the woman was working and poured oil on her and set her on fire. The victim was hospitalised. Her suspected attackers were arrested and three policemen suspended for dereliction of duties.
It started with a misinformation campaign to discredit me as an investigative journalist. Then my face was edited into a porn video and they doxxed me.
A Supreme Court decision to lift a centuries-old ban on menstruating women from entering the Sabarimala temples in India has led to clashes between devotees and police. Religious figures consider women of menstruating age impure.
Bollywood cannot ignore women like Tanushree Dutta, and neither can the West
We might end up with 'selfie-free zones' in popular locations.
400 people gather outside Tory conference in Birmingham angry at "heavy-handed" police treatment
They are angry at police raids linking the community to "terrorist" activity.