India
Delhi’s last elephants await marching orders
Environment
September 22, 2018
Delhi’s last elephants await marching orders
The mighty Heera marched through a crowded slum chewing bamboo, oblivious that freedom from life as one of Delhi’s…
US to help nations replace Iran oil, may consider waivers
Middle East
September 6, 2018
US to help nations replace Iran oil, may consider waivers
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Washington will consider waivers for Iranian oil buyers such as India but they must eventually…
India decriminalizes homosexual acts in landmark verdict
World
September 6, 2018
India decriminalizes homosexual acts in landmark verdict
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Thursday struck down a colonial-era law that made homosexual acts punishable…
India’s billion-dollar battle to build the world’s biggest statue
World
September 3, 2018
India’s billion-dollar battle to build the world’s biggest statue
The world’s biggest statue is rising in a remote corner of India to honor an independence hero but it…
India’s devastating rains match climate change forecasts
Environment
August 27, 2018
India’s devastating rains match climate change forecasts
Once-a-century rains that have pounded the Indian state of Kerala and displaced 1.3 million people are in line with…
More than a million people in India flood relief camps
World
August 21, 2018
More than a million people in India flood relief camps
More than one million people have packed relief camps to escape devastating monsoon floods that have killed more than…
India’s Modi calls for talks with Pakistan in letter to new PM Khan
World
August 20, 2018
India’s Modi calls for talks with Pakistan in letter to new PM Khan
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for dialogue with Pakistan in a letter to its newly…
More bodies found in flooded Kerala as toll hits 370
World
August 19, 2018
More bodies found in flooded Kerala as toll hits 370
Rescuers searched submerged villages in southwest India on Sunday in a desperate hunt for survivors after floods killed at…
More than 320 dead in India flood crisis
World
August 18, 2018
More than 320 dead in India flood crisis
Pressure intensified Saturday to save thousands still trapped by devastating floods that have killed more than 300 in the…
Rain brings more misery to India’s flooded Kerala as death toll rises to 164
World
August 17, 2018
Rain brings more misery to India’s flooded Kerala as death toll rises to 164
BENGALURU/MUMBAI (Reuters) – The worst floods in a century in the Indian state of Kerala have killed 164 people and…