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
Sep 10 Watch Treating mental illness with medicine and religion in India By PBS News Hour In India, about 100 million people are believed to suffer common mental disorders and millions more have more severe illnesses. With just 5,000 psychiatrists in the country, faith healers have filled the gap. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports… Continue watching
Sep 09 More than 400 dead in historical flooding in India, Pakistan By Ariel Min The death toll from Kashmir's heaviest rainfall in 50 years rose to more than 400 on Tuesday. Six days of heavy rainfall that began on Sept. 3 has submerged more than 2,000 villages near the border of India-controlled Kashmir and… Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch News Wrap: WHO projects 'exponential increase' for Ebola By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, the World Health Organization says that many thousands of new cases of Ebola are expected in the coming weeks in Liberia, origin country of more than half of all cases to occur so far in… Continue watching
Sep 06 Monsoon flooding kills hundreds across Pakistan and India By Rialda Zukic More than 200 people have died in Pakistan and India after heavy monsoon rains and floods swept through the region, the Associated Press reports. Continue reading
Sep 04 Al-Qaida to begin jihadist operations in India By Andrew Troast Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri released a video Thursday, proclaiming the establishment of a new branch of the terrorist organization in India. Continue reading
Jun 18 Watch Searching for the holy grail of snake bite antidotes By PBS News Hour Although snake bites are rarely fatal in the United States, every year about 100,000 people die worldwide after being bitten by venomous snakes. A California doctor has developed a nasal spray treatment that may be able to help some snake… Continue watching
Jun 13 Watch Pulitzer-winning poet Vijay Seshadri fuses the fantastic with the everyday Continue watching