For the journalist Gauri Lankesh, railing against India’s right-wing nationalism was a birthright and a calling. In an increasingly intolerant country, it was also a death sentence, writes Rollo Romig.

India’s space agency has abandoned its inaugural Moon mission after losing communication with the orbiting Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft over the weekend, an official said today.

An Indian businessman and his domestic servant have confessed to sexually assaulting and killing at least 15 children and women over the past two years, police said today.