Authoritarians have lost elections before, and they will again.
Months after a military conflict, a cricket tournament brought the Indian team three victories over its fiercest rival but few signs of an easing in bitterness.
A generation of students in India pinned hopes and family savings on careers that once soared on H-1B visas allowing work in the United States.
The stampede took place at an event for Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, the popular actor known professionally as Vijay. A health official said the toll was likely to rise.
Sonam Wangchuk, who was arrested on Friday, is the face of resistance to what he says is government overreach in a small but strategically important Himalayan region.
A new visa for science and engineering graduates is part of China’s effort to establish itself as the world leader in science and technology.
Protesters demanding statehood for Ladakh, a strategically important Himalayan region, clashed with the police.
Mr. Bhat, a scholar of Persian literature, was a rare and eloquent voice of moderation in Kashmir’s often militant separatist movement.
Selling the prospect of high wages and stable migration rules, Germany’s ambassador to India makes a pitch to skilled Indian workers.
The H-1B visa lured a generation of Indian professionals to take part in the American dream. A $100,000 fee has forced a rethink of the route.
The Trump administration has clarified its new visa policy, but corporate bosses are still trying to sort through the fallout.
Personality can open doors, but it cannot rewrite geopolitics.
El presidente Trump firmó el viernes una orden que añade una cuota de 100.000 dólares para los nuevos solicitantes de visas H-1B. Esto es lo que hay que saber.
Every major world religion has a process for moral accounting. That’s something we rarely talk about in secular society.
The overthrow of Nepal’s government is the latest in a series of uprisings among India’s neighbors, creating a political churn that complicates its ties.
President Trump signed a proclamation on Friday adding a $100,000 fee to visas for skilled foreign workers. Immigration hard-liners have criticized the program for replacing American workers.
The call coincided with a visit by U.S. trade officials to the country, which just weeks ago was hit with a 50 percent tariff on all imports to the United States.
President Trump is set to speak with the Chinese leader on Friday to discuss the app’s future, signaling a potential thaw between the two men.
The Indian players refused to shake hands with their Pakistani opponents at the first meeting of the sides since the two countries exchanged hostilities this year.
Cuando nuestro hogar, antes bullicioso, se quedó en silencio, anhelaba escuchar el sonido del cariño.
Governments around the world are enacting measures to try to protect workers from the dangers of heat stress. They’re barely keeping up with the risks.
La aclamada escritora tiene un nuevo libro de memorias y una advertencia.
Middle-class Indians have been plowing their savings into the stock market, making it far less vulnerable to the shocks of a trade war.
The unraveling of relations between the United States and India has convinced many Indian officials that the country should return to its difficult balancing act of nonalignment.
Some of President Trump’s pressure tactics appear to have backfired, sending would-be allies into the embrace of China.
Heavy rains, flash-floods and cloudbursts have battered much of Northern India in recent weeks, killings hundreds of people and displacing more than a million.
The floods, which have killed hundreds, are bad news for farmers weighed down by heavy debt, as India is under pressure from President Trump in tariff negotiations.
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.