Southern India

At around 7 pm, the woman and her son were pushed into an autorickshaw and driven to another house. She was told there she would have to work as a sex worker to clear her debt.

After trolls targeted actress Faria Abdullah’s Muslim background, questioned her faith, and went as far as labeling her a "kafir" (infidel), she said her family is deeply secular and that her father is a converted Muslim who chose Islam out of personal conviction, while her mother found inspiration in Hindu spirituality.

The ambitious Parandur greenfield airport project was designed to handle up to 100 million passengers annually, but two years of resistance from farmers and environmental groups led to its scrapping.

Mother of a three-year-old boy, Medha Akarsh, died in an accident on a road in Bengaluru, a city known as the Garden City of India and also the Silicon Valley of India. Amid candlelight marches, residents are demanding accountability from civic authorities.

Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, who moved the resolution, in Tamil Nadu Assembly argued that delimitation should not penalise states that have achieved demographic stability through effective population control.