New Delhi

As India counts dead, brutality of Hindu-Muslim riot emerges

NEW DELHI (AP) — The wounded came in waves. First in ones and twos, limping up the steps and staggering through the alum...
8:01 28 February 2022

Scars of violence haunt India’s capital after deadly riots

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s hard-line Hindu nationalists watched anti-government protests centered in Muslim communities fo...
8:05 27 February 2022

Death toll rises to 24 from Delhi riots during Trump trip

NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 24 people were killed and 189 injured in three days of clashes in New Delhi that coincided wit...
18:27 26 February 2022

Trump, US officials send mixed messages on virus risk here

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his top economic adviser said Tuesday that the new coronavirus is under con...
22:25 25 February 2022

Trump defends Modi, refuses to weigh in on citizenship law

NEW DELHI (AP) — Defending the host who has showered him with pageantry, President Donald Trump refused Tuesday to speak...
16:40 25 February 2022

India keeps lid on Kashmir’s internet 6 months into lockdown

NEW DELHI — Six months after India's government stripped restive Kashmir of its semi-autonomy and enforced a total communications blackout, it is hera...
7:03 14 February 2022

RK Pachauri, who led Nobel-winning climate panel, dies at 79

NEW DELHI — Indian environmentalist Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, under whose leadership a U.N. climate change panel shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, has...
3:06 14 February 2022

New Delhi votes with Modi’s popularity on the line

NEW DELHI — Voting began for a crucial state election in India’s capital on Saturday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party tryin...
4:44 8 February 2022

Poll pitch for India’s capital plays up growing divisions

NEW DELHI — Campaigning for a crucial state election in India's capital has reached a fever pitch as members of the Hindu nationalist-led government c...
5:01 7 February 2022

India celebrates Republic Day with military parade

NEW DELHI — Thousands of Indians converged on a ceremonial boulevard in the capital amid tight security to celebrate the Republic Day on Sunday, which...
13:37 26 January 2022

Battery factory collapses in fire in New Delhi, killing 1

NEW DELHI — A factory manufacturing batteries in the Indian capital caught fire and collapsed Thursday, killing one firefighter and injuring at least ...
10:27 2 January 2022

India clamps down on marches, internet after deadly protests

NEW DELHI — A group of protesters in New Delhi was beaten and shoved into buses by police on Friday as they attempted to demonstrate against a new cit...
12:54 27 December 2022

India’s ruling party loses key state election amid protests

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party has lost a key state legislature election, a setback for the party as it fac...
6:13 24 December 2021

India’s main opposition party stages protest against new law

NEW DELHI — India’s main opposition party staged a silent protest in the capital on Monday against a contentious new citizenship law, a day after Prim...
11:28 23 December 2021

India suspends internet and phone services to quell protests

NEW DELHI — Indian authorities have stepped up phone and mobile internet shutdowns in some parts of the country in an effort to thwart a groundswell o...
11:04 21 December 2021

India bans citizenship law protests as death toll hits 14

NEW DELHI — Police banned public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day Friday and cut internet services to counte...
0:32 21 December 2021

Across India, opposition building against citizenship law

NEW DELHI — Thousands of university students flooded the streets of India's capital, while a southern state government led a march and demonstrators h...
10:07 16 December 2021

7 years after Delhi gang rape, brutal India attacks continue

NEW DELHI — Days after an alleged gang-rape victim was set on fire, a note was left at the family home of an 18-year-old set to testify in her own cas...
7:48 16 December 2021

Schools closed in New Delhi as air quality dips for 3rd day

NEW DELHI — Schools in India’s capital are shut Thursday and Friday after a thick gray haze of noxious air enveloped the city for the third consecutiv...
10:03 14 November 2021

Schools reopen in New Delhi with air pollution falling

NEW DELHI — Schools have reopened in the Indian capital with toxic air level coming down by more than half since authorities declared a health emergen...
9:44 6 November 2021

‘This city is not livable’: New Delhi people decry dirty air

NEW DELHI — Sakshi Chauhan has not left her house in a quiet inner-city slum in the Indian capital for the past six days on her doctor's orders.
2:10 6 November 2021

India’s capital restricts cars as people choke in dirty air

NEW DELHI — Authorities in New Delhi are restricting private vehicles from the roads on alternating days to control vehicular pollution as people in t...
6:13 4 November 2021