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The Fifth Floor: Why women vote for Modi

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Women walk next to a cut out of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally

22/04/2022 GMT

Why women vote for Modi

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Chest size or policies: why does Prime Minister Modi appeal to India's women voters?

Narendra Modi’s BJP party won four out of five Indian states in recent elections, with polls reporting that more women than men voted for them. Geeta Panday of BBC News Delhi explains BJP’s appeal to women, from Prime Minister Modi’s strongman image, to the party's development schemes to improve women’s lives.  

Space Kebab
A kebab shop owner in Adana, known in Turkey as the capital of kebabs, attempted to deliver the world's first kebab into outer space. Özge Ozdemir from BBC Turkish tells us more about the not entirely serious space mission.

Rio Alligators
From bus stations to door mats, alligators have been seen in Rio de Janeiro's most urban areas. Disorganised urban expansion, pollution and human feeding appear to have caused the population boom. Brazilian Ricardo Senra grew up in Rio, and made a video about Rio's wild inhabitants.

Shanghai's Covid lockdown 
Shanghai has been in lockdown for a month. What began as a 5 day intervention is still in place as omicron defies the measures, and government’s zero-Covid policy shows no sign of changing. BBC Chinese journalist Benny Lu has been finding out what life is like under arguably the world’s strictest lockdown.

Omani dishdashas
How would you feel if your government made laws about what you could wear?  That’s what’s happened in the Gulf state of Oman, with laws relating to the traditional robe the dishdasha and how it can and can’t be worn, as BBC Arabic's Nisrine Hatoum reports.

(Photo: Indian Prime Minister Modi visits Allahabad, India in 2021. Credit: Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images)

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