The government said the rules were needed to prevent theft and other crime. Its opponents and privacy activists regard the app as a tool of mass surveillance.
The volcanic eruption sent into the atmosphere an ash cloud, which gusts of wind blew eastward toward the Indian subcontinent. Multiple flights in India were delayed or rerouted as a precaution, according to India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation.
The ash cloud drifted over northern India, causing some flight delays and cancellations, and continued toward China.
In a career spanning nearly seven decades and more than 300 productions, the actor became one of India’s best known and most versatile screen stars.
India has been snapping up discounted Russian crude for three years, but U.S. sanctions that take effect on Friday are expected to end the lucrative trade.
First they came for whom?
Algunas empresas están ofreciendo sistemas de purificación del aire muy necesarios para refugiarse del esmog en una de las ciudades con más polución del mundo. La mayoría no puede costearlos.
Women who face long-term heat exposure in workplaces and homes are finding it takes a heavy toll on their health and income.
Officials have yet to grasp the magnitude of heat-related deaths, let alone effectively deal with the problem, public health experts and scientists say.
The explosion in the city of Srinagar happened as officials were inspecting bomb-making material seized as part of an investigation into a broad terror network allegedly involving medical doctors.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
Companies are offering much-needed, but expensive, air purification systems to shelter from the smog in one of the world’s most polluted cities.
Como Pakistán ha contratado a grupos de cabildeo con estrechos vínculos con el presidente Trump, también ha recibido un trato arancelario favorable y un acceso único en Washington.
As Pakistan has hired lobbyists with close ties to President Trump, it has also received favorable tariff treatment and unique access in Washington.
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.
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.