New Delhi commuters are not among those likely to be won over by China’s new Premier during his three-day visit to the …
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After Fighting Over Mountains, India and China Lock Horns in the Indian Ocean
In mid-April, a platoon of Chinese soldiers trooped some 20 km into territory considered India’s and pitched tents and unfurled banners. When detected by Indian forces, the Chinese refused to leave, triggering a tense three-week …
Report: There Are 3,000 Child Soldiers in India
Last year, suspected insurgents in northeast India’s Manipur state abducted three teenage boys. Despite a missing-persons complaint and a police search, they were never found. In Manipur, as well as several other Indian states, …
No Answers in Sight for India’s Diabetes Crisis
The Big B in ‘The Great Gatsby’: TIME’s Q&A with Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is India’s biggest and most-enduring movie star, with hit films ranging from Sholay in 1975 to Paa in 2009. He also hosted five seasons of the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Bachchan has a …
India: Protesters Decry Verdict on 1984 Sikh Massacre
The Rakab Ganj Sahib Sikh temple in central New Delhi stands white and gleaming against the punishing May sun. Inside its spacious guesthouse is Jagdish Kaur, a stout 76-year-old woman, who has been waging battle for the past few …
Chinese Incursion Leaves India On Verge Of Crisis
(NEW DELHI) — The platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the bitterly cold moonscape in Chinese army vehicles, then got out to traverse a dry creek bed with a helicopter hovering overhead for protection.
They finally …
Indian Prisoner’s Death in Pakistani Jail Stirs Nationalist Furies
Sarabjit Singh, an Indian prisoner on death row in a Pakistani jail since 1991, died on Thursday morning following severe head injuries inflicted by six fellow inmates at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail. Singh, 49, convicted for …
Indians Angry at Convicted Spy’s Death in Pakistan
(NEW DELHI) — Indians were outraged at the Pakistan government Thursday after a convicted Indian spy died from a head injury suffered when two inmates attacked him with a brick in a Pakistani prison last week.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said his government would arrange to bring Sarabjit Singh’s remains home and for
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Hospital Roof Collapses in India, Injuring 8
(NEW DELHI) — Part of a hospital building collapsed in central India on Friday after its roof came crashing down, injuring at least eight people, an official said.
More than a dozen people were rescued after being trapped in the rubble of the Kasturba Gandhi Hospital in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh state, state minister …
India Remembers the Judge Who Helped Toughen Up Rape Laws
It is rare that a person’s legacy feels as immediately relevant as the one left behind this week by India’s former chief justice J.S. Verma
Rape of 5-Year-Old Indian Girl Sparks New Outrage, Old Questions
Dozens of news vans are again camped in front of a major hospital in New Delhi, jockeying for space behind the yellow police barricades so ubiquitous in the Indian capital in recent months. Inside, the 5-year-old victim of …
2nd Man Arrested in Rape of 5-Year-Old Indian Girl
(NEW DELHI) — A child disappears. Police are called. Nothing happens.
Child rights activists say the rape last week of a 5-year-old girl is just the latest case in which Indian police failed to take urgent action on a report …
