India’s ‘digital arrest’ cybercrime has become so rampant that PM Modi has issued warnings – Copyright AFP Chris Delmas Aishwarya KUMAR Within five hours while sitting at home in India, retired professor Kamta Prasad Singh handed over his hard-earned savings to online fraudsters impersonating police. The cybercrime known as “digital arrest” — where fraudsters pose […]
Kumbh Mela, India’s religious festival of ritual bathing, is held once every 12 years at the site where the holy Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers meet – Copyright AFP HIMANSHU SHARMA Abhaya SRIVASTAVA Beside India’s holy rivers, a makeshift city is being built for a Hindu religious festival expected to be so vast […]
Air India has ordered 10 more A350 planes from Airbus, along with 90 A320 family aircraft – Copyright AFP/File NOAH SEELAM Air India has placed an order to buy 100 more Airbus aircraft, the Tata Group-owned carrier said Monday, in a deal aimed at bolstering its fleet and winning over flyers. The airline said the […]
India is building what it boasts will be the world’s largest renewable power plant – Copyright AFP/File Money SHARMA Philippe ALFROY Vast lines of solar panels reflect the blazing sun in India’s western deserts, a dazzling ocean broken only by bristling wind turbines. India, along its desolate border with Pakistan, is building what it boasts […]
Funeral pyres line the Ganges river in India’s holy city of Varanasi, where thousands come each year to spend their final days – Copyright AFP Niharika KULKARNI Niharika KULKARNI Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian Hindu devotees are calm and confident that their one-way pilgrimage to death will deliver […]
