No rebound in sight as IMF sees sluggish growth amid trade tensions and climate shocks
Global growth appears to have bottomed out but there is no rebound in sight and risks ranging from trade tensions to climate shocks makes the outlook uncertain, a top International Monetary Fund official said on Monday. For 2020 and 2021, the IMF trimmed back its ...
India relief team chief brings home lessons from 3/11 Tohoku tsunami
The former head of an Indian government rescue team dispatched for relief operations in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011 is sharing the lessons learned from the disaster-stricken town in his home country. Alok Awasthi, the ex-commandant of ...
The Japanese and Indian coast guards on Thursday conducted a joint drill in waters off Chennai, southern India. The 18th such exercise between the two nations comes at a time when China is expanding its maritime presence in waters near India. Sharing the concept of a ...
Surging Himalayan glacier puts Pakistani villagers under threat
The villagers of Hassanabad live in constant fear. Above them the vast Shisper glacier dominates the landscape, a river of jagged black ice moving toward them by as much as 4 meters per day. Climate change is causing most glaciers worldwide to shrink, but due ...
Russia says U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy is meant to contain China
Russia on Wednesday criticized the United States for introducing a new Indo-Pacific concept it said was aimed at containing China. Addressing a global conference in the Indian capital to discuss the most challenging issues facing the world community, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that ...
Toward an Indo-Pacific concert of democracies
If democratic powers leverage their bilateral and trilateral partnerships to generate progress toward such a concert of democracies, the vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific may be achievable in the years ahead.
Modi's project to make a Hindu India
India represents the most successful example in history of managing the challenge of unity in diversity, but the ruling party's Hindutva agenda threatens this achievement.
Bollywood 'casting couch' culture endures despite global #MeToo movement
It took a minute for Malhaar Rathod, then an aspiring teenage actress, to realize what the 65-year-old Indian film producer was asking her to do — and to make the decision to walk away. "He claimed he had a part for me and then asked ...
One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released on Thursday, underlining its dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female. The highly publicized gang rape and murder of ...
Furor after top Bollywood star Deepika Padukone attends New Delhi student demo
One of Bollywood's top stars has sparked a social media storm after showing solidarity with students who were attacked at an Indian university this week. Indian film stars have traditionally shied away from politics, fearing their films could be boycotted or their safety threatened. The industry ...
India court orders Jan. 22 hanging of four men guilty in deadly 2012 gang rape aboard moving bus
Four men sentenced to death for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in an attack that sent shock waves across the world will be hanged on Jan. 22, an Indian court ruled on Tuesday. The four men were ...
Protests were held across India Monday after masked assailants wielding batons and iron rods went on a rampage at a top Delhi university, leaving more than two dozen injured. Controversy over Sunday's violence at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) comes as a new challenge to the ...
