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NEW DELHI - On Monday, national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced in New Delhi a last hurrah for a bilateral relationship that he has personally worked hard to cement. "The [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta NEW DELHI - Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has withdrawn his request for a U.S.-backed $553 million loan to build a terminal for a deepwater port [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih, Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta - - - Correction: A previous version of this article misidentified Milan Vaishnav's workplace as the Brookings Institution. Vaishnav works at the Carnegie [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra BATHINDA, India - An Indian initiative to preserve vanishing groundwater by delaying the annual sowing of rice has led to a dramatic worsening of air pollution in [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon, Katharine Houreld, Francesca Ebel, Karishma Mehrotra The annual summit of the BRICS group of countries being held in Russia this week is so central to President Vladimir [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih, Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - India and China have reached an agreement on patrolling their disputed border, a senior Indian official said Monday, marking a major thaw [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra, Shams Irfan NEW DELHI - Shuttered movie theaters are now open, as are new cafes, market roads and sports facilities. Government schools have been renamed after police [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra, Hafeel Farisz NEW DELHI - Roughly 17 million Sri Lankans are heading to the polls in the first election since one of the country's worst financial meltdowns, [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - American businesses looking to reduce their reliance on China have increasingly been eyeing India in the past few years as a new manufacturing hub [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta DHAKA, Bangladesh - Amid their jubilation, many of the student protesters who chased Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power a week ago were afraid [...]

Byline: Azad Majumder, Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta, Tanbirul Miraj Ripon DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh's political future hung in the balance Tuesday, with the question of leadership looming over a tense [...]

Byline: Azad Majumder, Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta, Tanbirul Miraj Ripon, Anika Arora Seth DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh's president and security chiefs met the demand of student leaders on Tuesday to [...]

Byline: Azad Majumder, Rebecca Tan, Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country Monday as protesters stormed her residence and set [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra, Anika Arora Seth NEW DELHI - When Sen. Kamala D. Harris joined the 2020 Democratic presidential ticket, Indian media were excited to detail her Indian ancestry. They [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta NEW DELHI - India's independent films are winning top awards at international festivals and appearing in theaters across the United States and Europe - just [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - For the next seven days, men in saffron robes will crowd into a small room in the capital of New Delhi to chant a [...]

Byline: Anant Gupta, Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - Heavy monsoon rains in the Indian capital of New Delhi brought part of the airport terminal roof crashing down on parked cars, [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih, Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - In 2016, Narendra Modi faced his first crisis as Indian prime minister. After he made a snap decision to remove large currency [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra, Gerry Shih DHAMPUR, India - Long before India's shock election results released this week eroded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's political mandate, the seeds of discontent were planted [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih, Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta NEW DELHI - Indian voters have delivered an unexpected repudiation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership as electoral tallies on Tuesday showed his [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih, Karishma Mehrotra, Anant Gupta NEW DELHI - Indian voters appeared to deliver an unexpected repudiation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership as early vote tallies on Tuesday [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - The end has come for India's 47-day marathon election for the lower house of Parliament, the Lok Sabha, in which almost a billion people, [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra, Dan Stillman DELHI - India's capital territory of Delhi experienced some of its hottest weather on record Tuesday and Wednesday, with highs in some neighborhoods near the [...]

Byline: Michael Robinson Chávez, Karishma Mehrotra Along the Bay of Bengal, where nearly 1.4 billion people live, water has become perilously unpredictable. On the coast of Indiaâs Odisha state, repeated [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra, Gerry Shih NEW DELHI - From the United States to South Korea, it is a political axiom in many parts of the world: Women and young people [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra, Sammy Westfall, Gerry Shih IndiaÇÖs government moved abruptly Monday to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims from a naturalization fast track. It stoked massive protests and [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra JALANDHAR, India - Billboards crowd the small lanes of this northern Indian city, calling out to those who dream of a different future. A sign in the [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - In what could be a serious blow to Indiaâs richest and most dominant political party, the Supreme Court struck down a type of anonymous [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih,Karishma Mehrotra,Anant Gupta AYODHYA, India - When Hindu radicals stormed a 16th-century mosque in this Indian river town and tore it to the ground in 1992, the demolition [...]

Byline: Anant Gupta and Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - Thousands of protesters gathered in New Delhi and cities across India on Friday after the Indian Parliament, controlled by the Bharatiya [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra Correction: A previous version of this article misspelled the first name of Kusum Devi. It also incorrectly stated the affiliation of Neelanjan Sircar. He is a political [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra and Shams Irfan NEW DELHI - Rescuers in India first tried to drill through the mountain horizontally, but the high-powered machines broke down. Then, they tried to [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - With war raging in Gaza, India's embrace of Israel's security concerns has underscored how dramatically the relationship between the two countries has developed since [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih, Karishma Mehrotra, Ellen Francis and Amanda Coletta NEW DELHI - India went on the diplomatic offensive against Canada on Thursday, ordering the country to reduce staffing at [...]

Byline: Amanda Coletta, Gerry Shih and Karishma Mehrotra Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly cited a Western official as saying Canada had asked its allies to publicly condemn [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra and Anant Gupta NEW DELHI - Canada's announcement that India might be behind the killing of a Sikh separatist was a bombshell to much of the world, [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih and Karishma Mehrotra Weeks before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau aired an explosive accusation that Indian officials may have been behind the slaying of a Sikh separatist [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih and Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - India expelled a Canadian diplomat on Tuesday in a tit-for-tat move after Canadian officials accused Indian government operatives of gunning down [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - Twenty of the world's most important leaders sat in a room over the weekend and hammered out a final statement they could all agree [...]

Byline: Matt Viser and Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - President Biden and several other world leaders announced plans here Saturday afternoon for a new rail and shipping corridor that would [...]

Byline: Matt Viser and Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - President Biden arrived here Friday on a four-day trip to Asia aimed at advancing a range of American priorities at a [...]

Byline: Matt Viser and Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - President Biden arrived here Friday on a four-day trip to Asia aimed at advancing a range of American priorities at a [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - The billboards multiplying across this capital city rosily portray the world as an inclusive family of nations. But they consistently show the face of [...]

Byline: Andrew Jeong and Karishma Mehrotra SEOUL - When Netflix launched in South Korea in 2016, it was a breath of fresh air for filmmakers jaded by a local industry [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra A relentless monsoon has brought states across northern India under extreme and severe flood alerts, as rivers have swept into towns, washing away vehicles, bridges and roads. [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra and Shams Irfan NEW DELHI - As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Washington this week, newspaper front pages here in India were awash with banner headlines [...]

Byline: Eve Sampson and Karishma Mehrotra Indian politician Himanta Biswa Sarma lashed out at former U.S. president Barack Obama in a tweet Friday, saying Indian police 'should prioritize taking care [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra NEW DELHI - One of India's most highly regarded weapons is a supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from sea, sky and land. Its name, BrahMos, [...]

Byline: Karishma Mehrotra and Anant Gupta SONIPAT, India - Ever since Sakshi started wrestling six years ago, the 13-year-old has tried to mimic how her idol, Vinesh Phogat, a medalist [...]