Modi’s party volunteers targeting 100,000 people a day

By Yogita Limaye, Shruti Menon & Jack Goodman Ankur Rana types furiously into his phone, sending messages across the hundreds of WhatsApp groups he manages. It is a tightly controlled operation: BJP volunteers in Meerut say that each day, the party’s headquarters in Delhi sends political messages and hashtags – these range from praising Prime […]

Luxury perfumes linked to child labour, BBC finds

By Ahmed ElShamy and Natasha Cox Children have picked ingredients used by suppliers to two major beauty companies, the BBC can reveal. Heba – who lives in a village in the district of Gharbia, the heart of Egypt’s jasmine region – wakes her family at 03:00 to begin picking the flowers before the sun’s heat […]