Brian's India Spot

Volunteers armed with drums and whistles are being used under a new scheme to shame people urinating or defecating in public in India's Rajasthan state, officials say.

India's government once again clears a controversial plan to open up its vast retail market to global supermarket chains.

An Indian anti-corruption cartoonist is remanded in custody on sedition charges, prompting criticism of what many see as an attack on freedom of expression.

Critics slam an affirmative action program that reserves university places for members of India's lower castes.

The launch in India of a "vagina tightening "cream promising to make women feel like a virgin has reignited debate about women's sexual rights, as the BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan reports.

The Indian Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring that 25 percent of private schools’s pupils come from low-income families. But provisions of the law are vague, including how to finance it.

India's opposition parties and trade unions stage a strike over government plans to allow in global supermarket chains and other reforms.

Journalist Nita Bhalla recounts the lingering scars - physical and mental - from an assault on her and draws a wider lesson about violence against women in patriarchal India.

More than 4,000 people flee their homes in India's troubled north-eastern Assam state following fresh violence, officials say.

A new Indian clothing store called Hitler is criticised by a senior Israeli diplomat as insensitive and offensive to Jewish people around the world.

Indian authorities move to clamp down on social media following unrest and a mass exodus of migrant workers.