Mujib Mashal

In India, cricket has become immensely profitable and a destination for the world’s best players. But a tournament victory had eluded it for many years.

Across Asia and Europe, the event stoked concerns about American stability, both domestically and on crucial foreign policy issues like Washington’s commitment to alliances.

More than 1,300 people died, and a Saudi official said most of them were not registered for the pilgrimage. That left them with little protection from the heat.

Consumption of tainted bootleg alcohol has caused several instances of mass deaths in recent years as drinkers seek out illicit liquor to save money or evade the law.

The former House speaker joined a congressional delegation that met with the Tibetan spiritual leader at his home in India. China calls him a separatist.

Meeting in Switzerland, world leaders backed a joint statement urging more diplomacy, but were divided on how to engage Russia.

Forced into a coalition government, the prime minister faces the challenge of governing differently than he has so far in two decades in elected office.

Maps show how Modi lost support throughout the country, including in areas that had embraced his party’s Hindu-nationalist ideology.

The Indian leader used his singular persona to lift his party to new heights. Then the opposition found a way to use his cult of personality against him.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi tapped influencers and gamers to draw in young voters, many of whom are discontent with the economy and unemployment.

Though Narendra Modi will take up a third term as India’s leader, the election was closer than expected, forcing him to rely on coalition partners that don’t share his Hindu nationalist agenda.

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Plus, the scale of destruction in Ukraine.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on track to secure a third term, but a dip in his party’s electoral support will have political consequences.

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See results and maps from India’s 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

A media executive was arrested after his company published critical reports about a powerful government minister.

While a newly united opposition seemed to gain some traction, exit polls showed the popular and entrenched prime minister was winning a third term.

For weeks now, temperatures in several states in northern India have been well over 110, and hospitals have been reporting a rise in heatstroke.

Disasters over the weekend that claimed at least 34 lives prompted condolences, arrests and finger-pointing. But systemic change remains elusive, analysts say.

India’s welfare programs improve lives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party uses its vast machinery to ensure the handouts also create loyal voters.

After setting a very high bar for his party in the election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi often appears on the defensive as the voting nears its end.

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Families grapple with anguish and isolation as they try to raise their children in a country that increasingly questions their very identity.

With India’s election in full swing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party are using animated videos to attack Muslims.

Narendra Modi has proved one of India’s most consequential leaders. But he has drawn criticism for anti-democratic practices and charges of religious persecution.

India’s external spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, has long been accused of tapping into criminal networks to carry out operations in South Asia. Is the agency now doing similar operations in the West?

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s films are known for splendor, grandiosity and obsessive attention to light and detail. Will that translate to smaller screens?

The brazenness of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vilification of India’s largest minority group made clear he sees few checks at home or abroad on his power.

Plus, a “tortured” Taylor Swift.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party got less than 40% of the vote in the last election. But his fractured and dysfunctional rivals have struggled to capitalize on that.

Few doubt the popular prime minister will win a third term in voting that starts Friday. His strong hand is just what many Indians seem to want.

Also, new Western sanctions on Iran, and China’s sinking cities.

As Narendra Modi seeks a third term as prime minister, India’s rupture with China looms over a pillar of his campaign: making his country a major power.

As an election nears, political strife between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition-held states is straining the federal formula that holds India together.

The results of India’s vote will be announced on Tuesday. They will decide the political direction of the world’s most populous country for the next five years.

A sweeping new law on online speech threatens the political humor that has helped the island nation get through tough stretches.

Maybe, just maybe, that was their future on the screen. How a new cricket league inspired two sisters in a Punjab village.

Thieves in southern India kept the cash, the gold and most of the silver, but returned to the scene of the crime with one item, and an apology note.

The grand opening of a temple in Ayodhya was both a religious ritual and a made-for-TV spectacle for a broadcast media co-opted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Birds, be careful: Loitering at an Indian port with a microchip on your leg can make people nervous and get you locked up.

The temple inaugurated by the prime minister is on the disputed site of a centuries-old mosque destroyed in a Hindu mob attack that set a precedent of impunity in cases of violence against Muslims.

With the opposition in jail or off the ballots in a boycott, the prime minister for the past 15 years was expected to maintain her grip on power in what appeared to be a low-turnout vote.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to roll to a fourth consecutive term as the gutted opposition boycotts what it calls an unfair election.

“Kaathal,” about a closeted gay politician, is the latest example of what Kerala’s movie industry has become known for: nuanced films that find box office success.

Startups big and small are adding a modern touch to the ancient practice of instilling Hindu values starting in the womb.

Results of voting for the governments of four Indian states showed gains for Mr. Modi’s ruling party, putting him in a strong position ahead of general elections in the spring.

A U.S. indictment says an Indian government official tried to have a hit man kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York City.

After an indictment accuses an Indian official of ordering an assassination on U.S. soil, diplomats and experts debate how far up the chain the scheme went.

A Manhattan indictment says the agent orchestrated an unsuccessful plot against a Sikh separatist, a plan linked to a killing in Canada.

Environmentalists argued that a road project was destabilizing the fragile Himalayan landscape. The government maneuvered to continue it.

After repeated mechanical setbacks, the operation turned to trained miners using manual tools to clear the final stretch of debris.

The effort to rescue 41 construction workers in India has faced repeated setbacks. Now the authorities are trying to drill vertically through a mountain.

The U.S., while not publicly accusing New Delhi of trying to orchestrate a killing on American soil, said it had expressed concern to Indian officials.

For Mr. Putin, it was a rare interaction with Western leaders since the start of the war last year. It was also the first time he had to listen to direct public criticism at an international event.

A dominant World Cup run closes with a loss to Australia in the final, a symbol of how far India has come and how far it still has to go.

The small Himalayan nation’s cabinet of ministers said the Chinese-owned app had neglected its repeated requests to curb content that affected “social harmony.”

For his fellow exiles, Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas, an 88-year-old star from a golden era, evokes the Afghanistan they left behind, and one that could have been.

Unions in Bangladesh say a proposed wage increase falls short after a weekend of violent protests.

Afghanistan’s cricket team has won big games and many fans in an international competition, in a stark contrast to the pariah status of its government.

The Himalayan country is far behind in enforcing construction codes despite sitting on the fault lines of two major tectonic plates, experts say.

Thousands of families were left under the open sky as rescuers searched for survivors in the mountainous villages where the earthquake struck.

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The teams’ face-off in the men’s cricket World Cup, which India won handily, was shadowed, as always, by the stormy history between the two countries.

Mohamed Muizzu, the mayor of the capital city pushing for closer ties with China, won a runoff against the pro-India incumbent, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.

India’s feud with Canada highlights how Prime Minister Narendra Modi has amplified a separatist threat that in reality is largely a diaspora illusion.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s accusation has further soured relations between the two nations.

The charge that the Indian government is linked to the killing of a Sikh separatist may fuel the rift between Canada’s Sikhs and Hindus.

The allegation that India was involved in the killing of a Sikh leader in Canada came after New Delhi had accused Western countries of inaction on secessionist groups.

The jail time in response to a report the government said spread misinformation stirs alarm about the nation’s deepening political repression.

A rising India has moved aggressively to champion developing nations, pursuing compromise in polarized times and promising to make America listen.

Countries began dispatching search and rescue teams to Morocco in response to appeals for help as emergency workers raced on Sunday to locate survivors.

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India’s hosting of the G20 summit this weekend will put its growing power on display. But its leader’s divisive religious politics threaten its rise.

The most active rivals to the country’s ruling party face dozens, even hundreds, of court cases each, paralyzing the opposition as a crucial election approaches.

The goal is to study the sun’s outer layers, to better understand its physics and dynamics and to improve understanding of space weather.