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After violence erupts at farmers’ protest, a tense standoff in India

Asia Pacific Jan 28, 2021

After violence erupts at farmers’ protest, a tense standoff in India

by Mujib Mashal and Hari Kumar

On Tuesday, farmers with tens of thousands of tractors pushed through barricades and poured into New Delhi, clashing with police.

Indian farmers clash with police in Delhi as protests mount

Asia Pacific Jan 27, 2021

Indian farmers clash with police in Delhi as protests mount

by Archana Chaudhary and Santosh Kumar

The escalation of the farmers’ protest adds to Modi’s challenges amid efforts to reverse a contraction in Asia’s third-largest economy due to the coronavirus pandemic.

New Delhi's poisonous air a perennial crisis of its own making

Asia Pacific Nov 26, 2020

New Delhi's poisonous air a perennial crisis of its own making

by Mayank Bhardwaj and Neha Arora

Thousands of families who live near a smouldering waste landfill in a northern corner of India's capital have boarded up their doors and windows because they say the air outside is so toxic that they would be coughing all day. New Delhi has the worst ...

Woman dies in New Delhi after gang rape, fueling outrage again in India

Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Oct 1, 2020

Woman dies in New Delhi after gang rape, fueling outrage again in India

by Hari Kumar and Emily Schmall

Of the tens of thousands of rape cases reported in India annually, only a handful result in prosecutions, National Crime Records Bureau figures show.

China-India border clash leads to contrasting domestic responses

Asia Pacific Jun 24, 2020

China-India border clash leads to contrasting domestic responses

by Yew Lun Tian and Sanjeev Miglani

The skirmish between Chinese and Indian troops over a long-disputed border this month is being treated in New Delhi as the country's worst diplomatic crisis in decades even as it is downplayed by Beijing. China and President Xi Jinping are already locked in diplomatic combat ...

India's Yamuna River regains sparkle as coronavirus lockdown banishes waste

Asia Pacific Jun 5, 2020

India's Yamuna River regains sparkle as coronavirus lockdown banishes waste

The sparkle has returned to the Yamuna River flowing through India's capital of New Delhi, residents say, after decades of filthy and stinking waters, matted with garbage and polluted with toxic effluent from industry. In a feat that eluded years of government cleanliness efforts, a ...

Inside a COVID-19 hospital in India, doctors see no end in sight

Asia Pacific May 29, 2020

Inside a COVID-19 hospital in India, doctors see no end in sight

It was barely noon on Thursday when the metal doors of the mortuary at a hospital in south New Delhi swung open and staff in white coveralls rolled out a stretcher. Mourning relatives looked on, as a body bag was loaded into an ambulance ...

'No man's land': Delhi's urban villages face uncertain future

Asia Pacific / Social Issues May 12, 2020

'No man's land': Delhi's urban villages face uncertain future

by Rina Chandran

Many of the landmarks of Paras Tyagi's life remain the same in Budhela village in Delhi where he grew up: the house he lived in, the school that he, his father and grandfather attended, the homes of neighbors he knew as a child. But the ...

Modi appeals for calm after some of New Delhi's worst sectarian violence in decades

Asia Pacific / Social Issues Feb 27, 2020

Modi appeals for calm after some of New Delhi's worst sectarian violence in decades

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for peace in Delhi on Wednesday after days of Hindu-Muslim clashes over a disputed new citizenship law sparked some of the worst sectarian violence seen in the capital in decades. At least 24 people were killed and hundreds more ...

Asia Pacific Feb 17, 2020

India's use of facial recognition tech during protests stirs criticism

by Alexandra Ulmer and Zeba Siddiqui

When artist Rachita Taneja heads out to protest in New Delhi, she covers her face with a pollution mask, a hoodie or a scarf to reduce the risk of being identified by police facial recognition software. Police in the Indian capital and the northern state ...

India court orders Jan. 22 hanging of four men guilty in deadly 2012 gang rape aboard moving bus

Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Jan 8, 2020

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 ...

India fetes New Year's Eve with protests over anti-Muslim citizenship law

Asia Pacific / Social Issues Jan 1, 2020

India fetes New Year's Eve with protests over anti-Muslim citizenship law

Thousands of Indians ushered in the New Year by demonstrating against a citizenship law despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attempts to dampen protests that have run for nearly three weeks. The protests have rocked India since Dec. 12, when the government passed legislation easing the ...

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