Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host Trump for a two-day visit starting Monday. As Gujarat's chief minister, Modi oversaw impressive economic growth. But he also presided over a dark chapter.
Dozens of Indians, most of them Muslim, have been killed by police in weeks of nationwide protests against a new citizenship law. Their families believe they were singled out because of their faith.
In December 10 children died within a 48-hour period — and that story made nationwide headlines. Politicians are casting blame — and the government is investigating.
Protesters say the weekend attack at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University was carried out by Hindu nationalists linked to the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, a charge the BJP denies.
Many of the victims were asleep in beds in the factory when the fire began. Streets in the area were so crowded that firetrucks couldn't reach the site, and had to shoot water from 100 yards away.
Police say the men attacked officers as they were investigating the crime scene and were shot dead in self-defense. Many are celebrating swift, sure justice; others call it an extrajudicial execution.
The woman says one of the men who attacked her on Thursday is the same man who raped her last year. It's another horrifying incident in a country grappling with high levels of sexual violence.
The robotic Vikram craft would have made India the fourth country to successfully land on the moon. Instead, contact was lost — and now, authorities have formally acknowledged it crashed.
"The Dalai Lama's reincarnation is a civilizational struggle between China and Tibetans over who controls Tibetan Buddhism," says Amitabh Mathur, a former Indian government adviser on Tibetan affairs.
In 1948, the Nizam of Hyderabad put 1 million pounds in the overseas bank account of a Pakistani diplomat. It accumulated interest for the next seven decades as his family fought to get it back.
He has been called racist, sexist and not manly enough. But the spiritual and political leader — who would have turned 150 on Wednesday — is deeply revered in India and around the world.
The Indian prime minister is cited for the millions of toilets his government has built in rural India. Activists say his human rights record should disqualify him.
The spacecraft's descent was going as planned until it reached an altitude of 2.1 km over the surface. "Subsequently, communication from Lander to the ground stations was lost," scientists explained.
Sometimes it takes a leap of imagination to get the authorities to repair damaged streets. And it's not a joke – pothole-related accidents claim thousands of lives in India.
India has made new rules regulating the weight of school bags. Are principals — and parents — paying attention? One mother in Mumbai is conducting spot checks to find out.
Last summer, they danced to Drake's "In My Feelings" in a rice paddy and racked up a million page views. Here's what the farmers — and the vlogger behind it — have been up to since then.
