Delhi smog hits 'emergency' levels as Britain's Prince Charles visits
The Indian capital's notorious air pollution hit "emergency" levels again Wednesday, coinciding with a visit by Britain's Prince Charles. New Delhi has been choked on and off for weeks, as industrial and traffic pollution — combined with smoke from crop stubble burning — cast a ...
'Grand Hindu temple' waits to move into Indian holy city of Ayodhya
Huge slabs of pink Rajasthan stone, carved pillars and bricks from across India are already waiting to form a Hindu temple to be built on the site of a demolished mosque at the center of decades of deadly turbulence. Enough stone to build a small ...
Rogue 'Bin Laden' elephant caught in India after killing five people
An elephant named after the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden that killed five Indian villagers has been caught after a massive operation to hunt down the creature, officials said Monday. Wildlife officers tracked the pachyderm — dubbed "Laden" by the locals it menaced in ...
20 dead as Cyclone Bulbul lashes India and Bangladesh coasts
Twenty people died and more than two million others spent a night huddled in storm shelters as Cyclone Bulbul smashed into the coasts of India and Bangladesh with fierce gales and torrential rains, officials said Sunday. The cyclone packed winds of up to 120 kph ...
Six dead as Cyclone Bulbul smashes into Indian, Bangladeshi coasts
Six people died and more than 2 million others spent a night huddled in storm shelters as Cyclone Bulbul smashed into the coasts of India and Bangladesh with fierce gales and torrential rain, officials said Sunday. The cyclone packed winds of up to 120 kph ...
India's Supreme Court rules in favor of Hindu temple on disputed land in Ayodhya
India's Supreme Court on Saturday ruled in favor of a Hindu temple on a disputed religious ground and ordered that alternative land be given to Muslims to build a mosque. The dispute over land ownership has been one of the country's most contentious issues. The 16th-century ...
Mass surveillance fears as India readies facial recognition system
As India prepares to install a nationwide facial recognition system in an effort to catch criminals and find missing children, human rights and technology experts warn of the risks to privacy from increased surveillance. Use of the camera technology is an effort in "modernizing the ...
India's top court to rule on Ayodhya land at center of bitter Hindu-Muslim dispute
The most contested plot of land in India has unleashed deadly riots and set Hindu against Muslim. Now the nation's top court will decide who owns it. In dispute is a scrap of land in Ayodhya, a sleepy northern temple town that is a holy ...
Diplomatic initiatives in Southeast Asia appear to be face severe headwinds.
Indian firms and farmers applaud Modi's move to reject RCEP trade deal
Indian farmers and businesses on Tuesday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to opt out of a sprawling Asian trade pact, with the country's largest dairy producer Amul thanking the leader for "supporting livelihoods." New Delhi's 11th-hour rejection of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) ...
'This city is not livable': New Delhi citizens struggle to deal with pollution
Sakshi Chauhan has not left her house in a quiet inner-city slum in the Indian capital for the past six days on her doctor's orders. The 22-year-old call center operator is recovering from a severe throat infection and the thick smog now blanketing New Delhi ...
India's exit from RCEP leaves Japan and China unsure about future direction of free trade pact
The decision by the world’s largest democracy comes as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to bolster bilateral ties in order to balance Beijing’s growing power.
