Shoestring Legal Aid Group Helps Poor in Rural India
JAGDALPUR, India — On a quiet night last November, the human rights lawyer Shalini Gera was brewing tea in her drab, small-town office, which doubles as an apartment, when her…
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Hindu Party In India In Coalition For Kashmir
JAMMU, India — After months of negotiations, India’s governing Hindu nationalist party joined a regional party dominated by Muslims to create a state government in the disputed Kashmir region, the…
India’s New Budget Aims to Boost Growth
NEW DELHI — India’s finance minister, Arun Jaitley, unveiled the first full-year budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Saturday, promising to boost growth with a major increase in…
‘India is about to take off,’ finance minister proclaims
India’s budget is a closely-watched TV event, with pre- and post-game analyses on every TV news channel. Even by those standards, Saturday’s budget generated more interest than in previous years,…
India Prepares a Budget, Surrounded by Secrecy and Big Expectations
NEW DELHI — In a subterranean workshop in India’s Ministry of Finance, roughly 100 government workers are nearing the end of their captivity. For nine days and nights, while they…
Powerful Sports Scoreboards Tally War ‘Death Count’ To Reduce Violence In India, Pakistan
The score ticked up to India: 547,290, Pakistan: 546,228. But that tally — displayed on scoreboards in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan — wasn’t indicative of the ICC Cricket…
Subodh Gupta Is Not A Pipe
Orange Thing. 2014. Steel, copper tongs, plastic. Photo: Genevieve Hanson. Subodh Gupta is having an identity crisis. Depending on which critic you read, the artist who famously turns kitchenware into…
Head of U.N. Climate Panel Resigns Amid Harassment Accusations
The head of the United Nations panel on climate science resigned on Tuesday after allegations of sexual harassment were filed against him in India, where he lives and works. Rajendra…
China Protests India Leader’s Visit to Disputed Border Area
HONG KONG — China summoned India’s ambassador in Beijing to protest Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to a border area claimed by both countries, a reminder that the world’s two…
Old India’s Village of Warriors Becomes Birthplace of Bouncers
GURGAON, India — In a smoky nightclub on the third floor of the Sahara Mall, blowing off steam to the thudding bass line of a Bollywood dance mix, are the…
Polluted Air Cuts Years Off Lives of Millions in India, Study Finds
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — More than half of India’s population lives in places with such polluted air that each person loses an average of 3.2 years in life expectancy, according…
India Deploys Expert Teams to Study Rise in Flu Cases
JAIPUR, India — Indian officials this week scrambled to cope with a rise in cases of the flu, which they say has sickened thousands of people and caused the deaths…
As Rivals Falter, India’s Economy Is Surging Ahead
SRIPERUMBUDUR, India — China’s economy is slowing. Brazil is struggling as commodity prices plunge. Russia, facing Western sanctions and weak oil revenue, is headed into a recession. As other big…
Modi Condemns Religious Violence in India
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India said on Tuesday that his government would not “accept violence against any religion, on any pretext” and that it would take…
Meet the man who wants the world to drink Indian wine
India has produced wine throughout its history, but its popularity waned after phylloxera, a pest which also heavily affected European wine production in the 19th century, ravaged many of the…
Veteran Communist Leader Wounded by Gunman in India
NEW DELHI — A veteran Communist leader and critic of right-wing groups was shot along with his wife in central India on Monday morning as they were out for a…
Newspaper in India Pays a Price for Reprinting a Charlie Hebdo Cartoon
MUMBAI, India — The Charlie Hebdo slaughter in Paris has reverberated into the multireligious ethnic sprawl of Mumbai, where an Urdu newspaper has closed and its editor faces charges and…
#IndvsPak cricket: A billion viewers tuned in
Aside from the customary bowl of Lay’s chips and a bottle of ice-cold Limca or Kingfisher beer, fans were also armed with their cell phones, as they took to Twitter…
India vs. Pakistan: How a great cricketing rivalry matured
A few years later my family moved from London to Calcutta. We had migrated from the birthplace of cricket to the game’s burgeoning new Mecca. India’s 1983 win turned out…
India Blocked an Activist From Traveling to Britain
NEW DELHI — The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has said it prevented a Greenpeace India activist from boarding a flight to Britain in January, where she was scheduled to…
9 Killed as Train in India Hits Boulder
NEW DELHI — Nine passengers were killed and 10 were seriously injured when a train in southern India derailed Friday morning near Bangalore after hitting a boulder that had rolled…
A Temple to Narendra Modi? No Thanks, India’s Prime Minister Says
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India publicly distanced himself on Thursday from the gestures of idolatry that Indian politicians regularly receive, the latest an attempt to inaugurate…
Grandfather Left Paralyzed After Encounter With Alabama Police
A 57-year-old grandfather from India was left paralyzed after an altercation with Madison, Alabama Police who said they had been called to investigate a “suspicious person.” Sureshbhai Patel, who is…
Backpack Doubles As Reading Light So Children In Indian Slums Can Still Study During Power Cuts
A woman’s simple invention could help reduce school drop-out rates in India. – Saha told the outlet that she hopes with more contributions, her invention can spread to rural India,…
10 romantic destinations you should know about
But it doesn’t have a trademark on the term, and it’s certainly not the only destination out there rousing amorous couples into expressing their love. With Valentine’s Day just around…
Indian Comic Book Superhero Who Survived Rape Fights Stigma, Gets UN Women On Her Side
After a harrowing New Delhi gang rape in 2012, a police officer told Ram Devineni that “no good girl walks home at night.” In that moment, the Indian-American filmmaker vowed…
India’s Governing Party Heads for Crushing Defeat in Delhi Elections
NEW DELHI — Less than a year after Narendra Modi won a historic victory to become India’s new prime minister, a smaller political earthquake struck the capital on Tuesday, as…
The Swastika, An Ancient Symbol Of Prosperity, Struggles To Overcome Nazi Connections
For many around the world, the swastika is a sign of genocide and hatred, reviled for its association to the Nazi party. But for centuries before the Holocaust, and to…
Arundhati Bhattacharya: India’s banking titan shakes up 200 years of tradition
Gaze across the painted portraits adorning the walls of India’s biggest bank, and you’ll find row after row of menwith one exception. Arundhati Bhattacharya is the first woman to head…
India Moves to Increase Bank Lending
HONG KONG — India’s central bank said Tuesday that it would allow commercial banks to hold less money in reserve, and Australia’s central bank cut rates to an record low,…