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After decades of election boycotts, many in Kashmir appear ready to vote to deny Modi power in region

By Aijaz Hussain, Associated Press

For decades, boycotting elections in Indian-controlled Kashmir was a sign of protest against Indian rule. That may change on Wednesday.

Police fire teargas at Indians protesting rape and killing of trainee doctor

By Bikas Das, Associated Press

Thousands of protesters demanded the resignation of a top elected official in India, accusing her of mishandling an investigation into a rape and killing of a resident doctor.

News Wrap: India's Modi visits Ukraine in bid to help mediate peace with Russia

In our news wrap Friday, Indian Prime Minister Modi met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, the White House described ongoing Gaza cease-fire talks as “constructive,” a Canadian rail workers union issued a strike warning, 16 GOP-led states sued to end a…

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Floods cause at least 15 deaths, strand hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh and India

By Julhas Alam, Associated Press

Floodwaters have stranded hundreds of thousands of people in India’s northeast and neighboring Bangladesh’s eastern region, officials and media reports said Thursday.

India's top court establishes task force on workplace safety after doctor was raped and killed

By Sheikh Saaliq, Associated Press

The Supreme Court's order comes days after the rape and killing of a trainee doctor in eastern Kolkata city that sparked outrage and nationwide protests.

After a colleague was raped and killed at a hospital, Indian doctors demand tougher laws

By Associated Press

The protesting doctors, holding up placards like “Justice delayed is justice denied,” were stopped by police om Monday as they tried to set up free outpatient services outside the ministry in New Delhi.

Thousands in India protest over rape and murder of a female doctor at government hospital

By Piyush Nagpal, Associated Press

The protests began Aug. 9 when police discovered the body of the 31-year-old trainee doctor at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital’s seminar hall in eastern Kolkata city.

In India, families ran for higher ground as water surged against their doors. Now everything is wiped away

By Rishi Lekhi, Associated Press

When deadly landslides struck hillside villages in southern India on Tuesday, many people ran toward higher ground and watched their homes get swept away by torrents of mud, floodwater and giant rolling boulders.

After 3 days of searching mud and debris, hopes of finding landslide survivors wane in India

By Rishi Lekhi, Rafiq Maqbool, Associated Press

Hopes of finding missing people alive are waning as rescue workers searched through mud and debris for a third day after landslides in southern India.