World Jan 16 Search crews in Nepal retrieve flight data from deadly plane crash Investigators are looking for the cause of Nepal’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years. At least 69 of the 72 people aboard were killed, and officials believe the three missing are also dead.
World Jan 15 68 dead, 4 missing after plane crashes in gorge near Nepal resort town A plane making a 27-minute flight to a Nepal tourist town crashed into a gorge Sunday while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard.
World Nov 01 India's prime minister visits bridge collapse site as search for missing people continues Narendra Modi inspected the collapsed bridge in Morbi town in Gujarat state and talked to rescuers. He also visited injured people at a hospital.
World Oct 31 9 people arrested in India during bridge collapse investigation The collapse Sunday evening in Gujarat state plunged hundreds of people into a river, killing at least 134.
World Jul 21 Woman from a minority ethnic community wins India's presidential election On Thursday, Droupadi Murmu became the first president from one of the country's tribes and the second-ever female president of India.
World Jun 06 India faces diplomatic outrage from Muslim nations over remarks insulting Islam India is facing major diplomatic outrage from Muslim-majority countries after two top officials in the governing Hindu nationalist party made derogatory references to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
World Jun 03 How India's Hindu nationalists are using a long-dead emperor for anti-Muslim politics For more than three centuries, Mughal emperor Aurangzeb remained relegated to India's history books. Until recently, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others from his Hindu nationalist party brought him back to life as a brutal oppressor of their faith…
World Feb 20 Farmer anger will test Modi as India's 'grain bowl' votes The polls will indicate whether riding the crest of the yearlong protests that forced Modi to make a rare retreat and repel the farm laws could be enough to prevent his party from making inroads in a state considered the “grain bowl”…
World Feb 08 Some students barred from class in India for wearing hijab The students began protesting outside the school gate and sat huddled in a group, reading their lessons. The school staff, which said the students were defying uniform rules, remained unmoved.
Arts Feb 06 Lata Mangeshkar, legendary Indian singer, dies at 92 Lata Mangeshkar, a legendary Indian singer with a prolific, groundbreaking catalog and a voice recognized by more than a billion people in South Asia, has died. She was 92. She was hospitalized on Jan. 11 after contracting COVID-19.