Results of voting for the governments of four Indian states showed gains for Mr. Modi’s ruling party, putting him in a strong position ahead of general elections in the spring.
After a murder in Canada, a sting operation, prompted by an explosive tip through an unexpected channel, rushed to prevent another killing.
The charges are rooted in a decades-old dispute over the demand by some Sikhs for a sovereign state known as Khalistan carved out of northern India.
The charges illustrate how complicated it can be for American presidents to balance their relationships with deeply imperfect allies.
Officials in the United States and Canada have described two assassination attempts: the killing of a Sikh leader in British Columbia and a plan to murder an activist in New York.
An indictment in a plot against a Sikh separatist in the United States provides details in a killing that has strained relations between Canada and India.
After an indictment accuses an Indian official of ordering an assassination on U.S. soil, diplomats and experts debate how far up the chain the scheme went.
The scheme described by federal prosecutors could upset a key element of President Biden’s foreign policy agenda: bolstering ties with India.
Also, negotiators race to extend the Gaza truce. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
Plus the U.S. charges an Indian man in an assassination plot.
A Manhattan indictment says the agent orchestrated an unsuccessful plot against a Sikh separatist, a plan linked to a killing in Canada.
Environmentalists argued that a road project was destabilizing the fragile Himalayan landscape. The government maneuvered to continue it.
The workers were trapped for more than two weeks after a landslide caused part of the tunnel they were building to collapse.
Plus Indonesia’s female forest rangers.
Arti passed every test for her government job but still faced disappointment and a new set of challenges.
Plus a surge in respiratory illnesses in China.
The U.S., while not publicly accusing New Delhi of trying to orchestrate a killing on American soil, said it had expressed concern to Indian officials.
For Mr. Putin, it was a rare interaction with Western leaders since the start of the war last year. It was also the first time he had to listen to direct public criticism at an international event.
They called for the release of all civilians who are being illegally held captive, as well as a humanitarian truce that would lead to a cessation of hostilities.
India has one of the world’s lowest rates of formal employment for women.
A dominant World Cup run closes with a loss to Australia in the final, a symbol of how far India has come and how far it still has to go.
Here was the paradox of being a woman in modern India. Sometimes a path from the oppression of patriarchy was marriage to a man willing to help challenge that system.
To U.S. allies in Asia, the sudden focus on Gaza risks progress on America’s long-delayed pivot to the Indo-Pacific region.
El hecho de que tantos niños resulten afectados por un fenómeno climático predecible sugiere que sus amenazas no se están abordando de manera adecuada.
She not only had an outsize role in New York and Washington politics as the wife of Daniel Patrick Moynihan; she also made a significant archaeological discovery in India.
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.