Health Mar 18 Clean water access for India’s poor spawns virus concerns Experts say keeping hands clean is one of the easiest and best ways to prevent transmission of the new coronavirus, in addition to social distancing. But for India's homeless and urban poor who live in thousands of slums across major…
World Feb 26 Death toll rises to 24 from Delhi riots during Trump India trip The clashes are between Hindu mobs and Muslims protesting a new citizenship law that fast-tracks naturalization for foreign-born religious minorities excluding Muslims.
World Feb 26 Death toll rises to 22 from New Delhi protests over new citizenship law The dead included a policeman and an intelligence bureau officer, and the government has banned public assembly in the affected areas.
World Feb 22 At Trump’s India rally, Modi bets on bolstering his image A festive mood has enveloped Ahmedabad in India’s northwestern state of Gujarat ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting there on Monday with President Donald Trump, whom he's promised millions of adoring fans.
World Dec 21 23 dead as protests grow against India citizenship law Nine people died Saturday during clashes between demonstrators and police in northern India, raising the nationwide death toll in protests against a new citizenship law to 23, police said.
World Dec 17 Student protesters clash with police over India’s citizenship law Police responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. Videos showed officers running after unarmed protesters and beating them with wooden sticks.
World Dec 16 Across India, opposition builds against citizenship law The new law giving citizenship to non-Muslims who entered India illegally to flee religious persecution in several neighboring countries.
World Dec 09 At least 43 people die after fire in illegal factory in India Tens of thousands of such spaces have been closed in a drive spurred by a decades-old court case, but a Delhi Municipal Corporation census counted more than 30,000 illegal factories last year.
World Dec 08 Devastating factory fire kills at least 43 in Indian capital A fire believed to be caused by an electrical short circuit engulfed a building in India’s capital on Sunday where handbags and other items were made by workers earning as little as 2 dollars per day, killing at least 43…
World Nov 09 Indian court rules in favor of Hindu temple on disputed land India’s Supreme Court on Saturday ruled in favor of a Hindu temple on a disputed religious ground in the country’s north and ordered that alternative land be given to Muslims to build a mosque — a verdict in a highly…