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Taniya Dutta

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Taniya Dutta is a journalist based in New Delhi who covers Indian politics, culture, social issues and gender equality. In her decade-long journalistic career, she has covered India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh and has written for The Washington Post, TRT World, The Mirror and The Scottish Sun among other British publications.

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A pharmacist checks weight of Paracetamol, a popular palliative, in a lab in Ahmedabad, India, in March 2020. Indian pharma businesses are preparing to lock horns with the Trump administration over tariffs. Reuters
India's pharma companies urge New Delhi not to cower to US tariff threats

India is the largest exporter of generic medicines in the world and should not be cowed by US threats, industry leaders say

NewsMarch 28, 2025
A man stands next to discarded computers in Seelampur. Taniya Dutta for The National
Where India’s tech goes to die: Delhi’s hazardous e-waste graveyard

Nearly 50,000 people eke out a living extracting metals from electronic waste in impoverished Seelampur

AsiaMarch 07, 2025
Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan is currently recovering in a Mumbai hospital after he was attacked by a knife-wielding intruder at his home. Reuters
Saif Ali Khan attack revives fears of threats against Bollywood stars

Home to the nation’s billionaires, celebrated cricketers and beloved celebrities, the city also has a dark side emerging from the shadows

Film & TVJanuary 18, 2025
Kangana Ranaut as Indira Gandhi in Emergency. Photo: Zee Studios
Film review: Kangana Ranaut’s Emergency is a passable effort

Bollywood actress and politician stars and directs the long-delayed biopic

Film & TVJanuary 17, 2025
Adesh Kumar, 26, a fourth-generation confectioner, sells the popular Daulat ki Chaat, a delicate dessert, in the old quarters of Delhi. Taniya Dutta / The National
Postcard from DelhiThe ‘snack of wealth’ keeping a city warm in winter

Fourth-generation confectioner Adesh Kumar doles out cosiness in a bowl

AsiaJanuary 10, 2025
An image taken from a video on social media appears to show the crush at Tirupati temple. Photo: X
Tirupati temple crush: Six dead in ticket rush in India

Crowds overwhelm ticket counters before major spiritual event in Andhra Pradesh

AsiaJanuary 09, 2025
Bangladesh Nationalist party's chairwoman Khaleda Zia departs for London to seek medical treatment, in Dhaka. AFP
Former prime minister Khaleda Zia leaves Bangladesh amid political instability

It is her first trip abroad since being released from house arrest last year after facing several corruption charges

AsiaJanuary 08, 2025
Rescue workers search for survivors after the earthquake in China's autonomous Tibet region. Xinhua / AP
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Tibet earthquake: More than 100 killed as 6.8 tremor shakes China and Nepal

Monitoring agency says shock was most powerful reported within 200km radius of city of Shigatse in five years

AsiaJanuary 07, 2025
Children watch Maoists rebels at a training camp in Bijapur district of India's Chhattisgarh state, in 2012. AFP
At least nine killed as Indian Maoists blow up police vehicle

Officers were returning from an operation in Chhattisgarh state, where five alleged insurgents were killed

AsiaJanuary 06, 2025
A boy cools off under a public tap in Jalandhar, northern India. AFP
India's hottest year recorded in 2024

Authorities say high temperatures and prolonged heatwaves were caused by climate change

AsiaJanuary 02, 2025
Nimisha Priya, 33, a nurse from Palakkad in Kerala state, was convicted for murdering and dismembering her business partner Talal Abdu Mahadi in 2017.
Indian nurse in Yemen faces execution within a month

New Delhi offers 'all possible help' to family of Nimisha Priya

MENADecember 31, 2024
A public works vehicle sprays water in a bid to reduce air pollution on Signature Bridge, on a smoggy winter morning in New Delhi. AFP
Headphones
RecordedInside Delhi’s pollution crisis

A foul concoction of smoke from farm residue and firecrackers plus emissions from industry and vehicles smothers the city when winter arrives

RecordedDecember 21, 2024
Children playing on a campus in New Delhi, where schools have been forced to close after a bomb threat. AFP
Dozens of Delhi schools evacuated after second bomb threat this year

New Delhi police launch investigation after email claims 'many people will be injured when the bombs detonate'

AsiaDecember 09, 2024
SilaiWali has converted 15,500kg of scrap fabric into more than 12,000 dolls. Photo: Taniya Dutta / The National
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Postcard from DelhiAfghan refugee women in India craft dolls from scrap fabric

Seamstresses are working with social enterprise SilaiWali to turn waste into embroidered dolls

AsiaDecember 06, 2024
Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has accused the country’s interim government of failing to protect its minorities. AFP
Bangladesh tribunal bans Sheikh Hasina's 'genocide' speech

Sectarian tension escalates in Bangladesh between Hindus and Muslims after the arrest of Hindu monk

AsiaDecember 05, 2024
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