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The Insanely Huge and Complex Exercise Known as the Indian Elections Begin on April 7

900,000 polling stations, 814 million voters: Welcome to the world’s largest democracy

The World’s Largest Community of Street Performers Is About to Be Torn Apart

By Nilanjana Bhowmick/New Delhi March 04, 2014

Planners have decreed that the famed Kathputli Colony in India’s capital, New Delhi, is to make way for luxury flats and shops

Indian Hospitals Are Doing a Roaring Trade in Medical Tourists From Afghanistan

By Nilanjana Bhowmick/New Delhi March 03, 2014

With healthcare in their own country in a parlous state, Afghans who can afford it go overseas for treatment

India’s Opposition BJP Will Storm the Next Election, a New Poll Finds

By Krista Mahr Feb. 27, 2014

The survey results are a damning report card for the ruling Congress Party

Too Many Indian Newborns Are Dying, Especially in New Delhi

By Nilanjana Bhowmick / New Delhi Feb. 26, 2014

The Indian capital comes off badly in a new report on infant mortality

Indian Police Clash with Civilians in Kashmir

By Maddy Fry / London Feb. 25, 2014

After police killed seven they thought were rebels

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Leopard Runs Rampage in Indian City

By TIME Staff Feb. 24, 2014

Wild cat prowled through streets in Meerut, India before entering a hospital where it stayed for 12 hours. The leopard injured seven people, and is reportedly still on the loose.

India Paves Way for Newest State Despite Unruly Parliamentarians

By Krista Mahr Feb. 21, 2014

After another rowdy day in Parliament, lawmakers in India’s upper house passed a bill on Thursday to create a new state in India, Telangana. The bill, which has to be signed by India’s President to become law, would carve India’s 29th state of some 35 million people out of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

The bifurcation of …