The National Investigation Agency, India’s lead agency for investigating terrorist attacks, has taken charge in the probe of a car explosion that killed at least eight people in a historic part of New Delhi.
A military official accused the Pakistani Taliban of staging the attack, which took place near a courthouse in Islamabad.
The car exploded near a metro station in a historic part of New Delhi on Monday night. Officials are investigating and security is tight around the region.
The police confirmed there were fatalities from a car explosion, but it did not give exact numbers or say what caused the blast.
“Dhoom Machale,” a popular Hindi film song played at the end of Zohran Mamdani’s first speech as New York City’s mayor-elect, nodded to his Indian roots.
Mi colega Mujib Mashal escribe sobre cómo una gran victoria en la cancha de críquet podría transformar las vidas de las mujeres y las niñas.
El equipo femenino de críquet logró su primer título mundial y cambió la conversación sobre el lugar de las mujeres en el deporte y en la vida pública del país.
My colleague Mujib Mashal writes about how a huge victory on the cricket ground could change the lives of women and girls.
A team that faced seemingly insurmountable odds wins its first championship, with wider ramifications for the role women play in public life.
The president’s trade truce with China has lowered U.S. tariffs to a level that could pause a longer-term effort to reduce America’s dependence on Beijing.
Para exportar su enorme mano de obra, India ha encontrado un término que quizá evite la controversia y la oposición en muchos países.
In “Let My Country Awake,” Scott Miller tells the story of revolutionaries in America who fought the British Empire at the beginning of the 20th century.
La idea, denominada movilidad laboral, consiste en poner en contacto a jóvenes indios con empresas de lugares cuya población está disminuyendo y donde la escasez de mano de obra frena el crecimiento.
India wants to send its vast work force abroad. It may have found a way around a word that stokes opposition in many countries.
A motorcycle struck the bus and got lodged in it, creating sparks that ignited the fuel tank, the police in Andhra Pradesh State said.
India plans to send its vast work force abroad to countries with labor shortages, like Germany and Japan.
El mayor feriado público de la India incluye oraciones por la prosperidad y la buena fortuna, y muchos dulces.
The air quality in India’s capital ranks among the worst in the world, but experts say politics stand in the way of improving it.
The biggest public holiday in India, Diwali features prayers for prosperity and good fortune — and lots of sweets.
The government subtly rebuffed the president’s comments that it would stop buying Russian oil, as it tries to avoid a public fight and end a trade dispute with Washington.
Tariffs and other restrictions between the United States and China are reverberating in unpredictable ways.
Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates, a backlash has erupted online, forcing the government to respond.
Narendra Modi has kept India on its swift upward path among the world’s largest economies. Many Indians are better off, though wealth gaps have widened.
The pileup has left visitors from places like Brazil, Colombia, India and Mexico waiting months, even a year or more, to visit family or do business in America.
Also, protests in Georgia and armed villagers in Kashmir.
Also, Scotland’s leader resigns and Air India orders a record 470 planes.
Also, Russian missile attacks in Ukraine and a major deal for Indian women’s cricket.
Also, New Zealand’s next leader and a Lunar New Year travel surge in China.
The invasion of Ukraine, compounding the effects of the pandemic, has contributed to the ascent of a giant that defies easy alignment. It could be the decisive force in a changing global system.
Plus China’s vaccination pivot and the year’s most stylish “people.”
Plus, Iran abolishes the morality police and Russia vows to defy an oil price cap.
Humanity faces a complex knot of seemingly distinct but entangled crises that are causing damage greater than the sum of their individual harms.
Plus India’s growing economy and China’s “zero-Covid” trap.
Pandemic lockdowns, misinformation campaigns, conflicts, climate crises and other problems diverted resources and contributed to the largest backslide in routine immunization in 30 years.
The agreement is a limited measure that is likely to have little impact on global vaccine supply.
The key Ukrainian city lost its last bridge as fighting intensifies.
Plus Hindus try to flee Kashmir and Taipei commemorates Tiananmen Square.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Plus lockdowns continue in Shanghai, and India’s community health workers press for a raise.
Over a million female health workers treat India’s most at-risk women and children, for little pay and sometimes at the cost of their own lives.
Plus India bans most wheat exports and South Korea amends surgery laws.
Nearly 15 million more people died during the first two years of the pandemic than would have been expected during normal times, the organization found. The previous count of virus deaths, from countries’ reporting, was six million.