Asia Pacific Jan 30, 2022
The bracing chill and blustery rains this month have been an ordeal for many, with Delhi on Tuesday recording its coldest January day in nearly a decade.
Asia Pacific May 19, 2021
How Mumbai officials made city better prepared for COVID-19 than Delhi
by Dhwani Pandya and P.R. Sanjai
The city’s success has partly been attributed to a decentralized system set up during the first wave, which included neighborhood war rooms to manage cases by locality.
Commentary / World Mar 11, 2021
The rebirth of cities after COVID-19
by Carlo Ratti
Embracing and re-imagining the space of our cities will soon be more powerful — and more necessary — than ever before.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...