India

Karnataka will investigate a lawmaker whose party is a key ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on suspicion of sexual harassment, the state’s chief minister has said.

The founding family of the 127-year-old US$5 billion ($6.8 billion) Godrej Group has agreed to split the conglomerate.

After a seven-year wait and multiple court battles in India, Ms Prema Kumari, a senior citizen from Kerala, finally met her daughter Nimisha Priya, a nurse who is on death row in a Yemeni prison.

In fake videos that have gone viral online, two of India’s A-list Bollywood actors are seen criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asking people to vote for the opposition Congress party in the country’s ongoing general elections.