Nov 13 Watch News Wrap: Liberia lifts state of emergency By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, Liberia’s president lifted a state of emergency that restricted citizen movement, citing progress against Ebola. More than half of the more than 5,000 people who have died from the disease have been from that country. Continue watching
Oct 21 What does it take to grow a nonprofit? Ask Nourish International By Larisa Epatko While studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sindhura Citineni decided she wanted to find a way to give back to her hometown of Hyderabad, India. Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch Looking back at the peace-promoting work of Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi – Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 30 Watch News Wrap: First U.S. Ebola case diagnosed in patient infected in Liberia By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 30 Obama, Modi tout deeper U.S.-India economic relation By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that "it is time to set a new agenda" between their countries, addressing concerns that the world's two largest democracies have grown apart. Continue reading
Sep 28 Watch How will Narendra Modi usher in India’s new ‘age of achievement’? By PBS News Hour On Sunday, thousands attended a speech in New York City by new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who declared that India is entering a new age of achievement. Alyssa Ayres of the Council on Foreign Relations joins Alison Stewart to… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch Indians beam with pride over successful — and cheap — Mars mission – Part 1 By PBS News Hour India has joined the U.S., the former Soviet Union and the European Union as one of the elite few to successfully send a spacecraft to Mars, on its first try and for only $75 million -- a fraction of the… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch India’s low-budget space program may offer lesson for U.S. – Part 2 By PBS News Hour India’s successful first mission to Mars is a major accomplishment for that nation, in both scientific and budgetary terms. To understand the historic feat, India’s space program and where it fits into the American exploration of Mars, science correspondent Miles… Continue watching
Sep 22 China, U.S. and India push world carbon output to record levels By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press The world pumped an estimated 39.8 billion tons (36.1 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide into the air last year by burning coal, oil and gas. That is 778 million tons (706 metric tons) or 2.3 percent more than the… Continue reading
Sep 15 India plus China: Lots of people, but less love By Michael D. Mosettig It's not often that two politicians can get together and claim to speak for more than a quarter of the world's 7.2 billion people. That's what will happen when President Xi Jinping of China and Prime Minister of Narendra Modi… Continue reading