India

Election results stun India's ruling party

What was behind the Bharatiya Janata Party's unexpected losses in spite of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's high ratings. Will this be a wake-up call for the BJP?

Hindu nationalists rally in New Delhi demanding temple at disputed site

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be seeking a second-term in the upcoming May 2019 polls. For the past three decades, the BJP and other associated Hindu outfits have resurrected the Ayodhya issue before elections.

Indian troops kill three suspected rebels in 18-hour-long Kashmir fighting

Indian forces fire warning shots, shotgun pellets and tear gas at the stone-throwing protesters who were staging anti-India demonstrations and attemped tried to march to the site of the battle in solidarity with the suspected rebels.

Meet the youngest pellet gun victim in disputed Kashmir

The rampant use of pellet guns has destroyed the lives of several thousand people, but New Delhi still considers it a 'non-lethal' weapon. Here's a view from the hospital where the newest victim, a toddler, was treated.

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas wed in lavish India ceremony

The multi-day festivities — dubbed India's "wedding of the year" — continue on Sunday with a Hindu ceremony for the US singer Nick Jonas and "Quantico" actor Priyanka Chopra .

India wakes up to its child malnutrition epidemic

With the world's largest amount of malnourished children, can India come to grips with its problem?

How China and India assert military dominance through Nepal

Nepal is a staging ground for China and India's military dominance of South Asia. So what role can Nepal play as it is stuck between a rock and a hard place?

Modi pursues yoga diplomacy at Argentina G20 summit

Right-wing Indian leader Narendra Modi, who has championed a greater Hindu identity in officially secular India, has made yoga a diplomatic priority since taking office in 2014.

How Indian media took a positive India-Pakistan moment and flipped it

Could the opening of the Kartarpur Crossing, to facilitate the Sikh community on both sides of the Pakistan-India border, be a step towards talks or initiating a peace process? The Indian media and the Indian government are not interested.

Twelve times the UN has failed the world

The United Nations has failed to prevent war and fulfill peacekeeping duties many times throughout its history. Millions of people around the world have been killed and displaced since the UN was founded in 1945.

Pakistan ready to repair ties with India as shrine corridor opens for Sikhs

Pakistan PM Imran Khan says his party and the powerful army are "all on one page" to mend ties with its arch-foe, during a rare ceremony for the first visa-free border crossing for Indian Sikh pilgrims.

How one American nearly wiped out an entire culture (or has)

This is how an effort to convert an 'uncontacted' tribe on the North Sentinel Island could end up erasing an entire population.