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02/05/2021 GMT

India: Voting count starts while country hits new daily deaths record

BBC World Service - Weekend, India: Voting count starts while country hits new daily deaths record

On Saturday the country registered a new record on daily infections

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India has reported nearly 3,700 new deaths in the last 24 hours, its highest total so far. This figure comes amidst state elections where campaigning has been controversial. 

Also in the programme:  Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have agreed what they called a "complete ceasefire"; and we talk about the document (a documentary) showing the hard decisions a father in Iran needs to make in Iran for his 14-year-old daughter.

To discuss these stories and more, Julian Worricker is joined by Alida Vracic, a Bosnian-born political scientist and co-founder and director of the Sarajevo-based Populari policy think-tank, and Ramita Navai, a British-Iranian journalist and author based in London. 

(Photo: A suspected COVID-19 patient receives oxygen supply at a Sikh shrine, or gurdwara, in New Delhi. Credit: EPA.)

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