Ritesh Mishra vowed to care for the dead, even if it meant risking his own life last year as India's second Covid-19 wave tore through the country's most populous state.
The social worker said he didn't wear a mask or gloves as he gave funeral rites (...)
In the Indian town of Ayodhya, minority Muslims are feeling under siege as they await a Supreme Court ruling on a centuries-old religious dispute that has cast a shadow over their relations with the majority Hindu community.
After a tangle of legal (...)
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra became the latest member of India's storied Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to enter politics in January, but the boost she brings the opposition campaign may not turn the tide against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, polls show.
After years (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was flying high in June, jetting from Afghanistan to Mexico in a whirlwind of red carpet diplomacy crowned by a speech to the US Congress extolling democracy and investment opportunities in the subcontinent.
But (...)
Hindu activists stormed an
airport in central India and briefly shut it down Wednesday
in nationwide protests over an attack a day earlier at a northern Indian shrine that forms the heart of a decades-old sectarian conflict.
More than 200 (...)
