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NEW DELHI -- The Supreme Court of India refused on Friday to allow an abortion for a 10-year-old girl who is at least 28 weeks' pregnant. Indian law generally forbids [...]

NEW DELHI -- A Dalit was elected India's 14th president on Thursday, a rare achievement for a member of a community once known as ''untouchables'' and one of the most [...]

NEW DELHI -- Coming from some other debt-ridden airline, it might have been shrugged off as just another service cutback. But not this time: When Air India announced on Monday [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Every month when her period came, Tulasi Shahi was sent to stay in her uncle's hut, the one where he keeps his cows tied up, in a [...]

Byline: RAJNEESH BHANDARI and NIDA NAJAR KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Every month when her period came, Tulasi Shahi was sent to stay in her uncle's hut, the one where he keeps [...]

DIALGAM, Kashmir -- Security forces in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir killed two militants on Saturday, including a top commander, in a gun battle that also left two civilians dead. [...]

PUNE, India -- Last month, Sudhakar Choudhari took the company bus as usual from his one-bedroom apartment to the suburban offices of Tech Mahindra, a major employer of workers in [...]

Byline: NIDA NAJAR PUNE, India -- Last month, Sudhakar Choudhari took the company bus as usual from his one-bedroom apartment to the suburban offices of Tech Mahindra, a major employer [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSRINAGAR, Kashmir -- A high-ranking police officer has been beaten to death in Kashmir by an angry mob that witnesses say had taken him for a spy or assassin. [...]

NEW DELHI -- The police in India have arrested at least 19 people on charges of sedition for jubilantly celebrating Pakistan's victory over India in the final of a cricket [...]

NEW DELHI -- Officials in Ahmedabad, India, saw the first of the cases in November: A 34-year-old woman who had just given birth to a healthy child came down with [...]

NEW DELHI -- A cyclone tore through parts of Bangladesh on Tuesday, destroying the homes of thousands of Rohingya refugees who had fled the violence in Myanmar over the last [...]

NEW DELHI -- The police in Bangladesh raided a monthly gathering of gay men at a community center on the outskirts of Dhaka early Friday and arrested 27 men on [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A South African filmmaker who tried to climb Mount Everest without a permit has been arrested by the Nepali police in Kathmandu, officials there said on Wednesday. [...]

NEW DELHI -- Vinod Khanna, a celebrated Indian actor who made his name in Bollywood in the 1970s playing first villains and then leading men, spent a long interlude at [...]

NEW DELHI -- Vinod Khanna, a celebrated Indian actor who made his name in Bollywood in the 1970s playing first villains and then leading men, spent a long interlude at [...]

Byline: NIDA NAJAR NEW DELHI -- The government in India's Jammu and Kashmir State ordered internet service providers in the restive Kashmir valley to block social networking services there on [...]

NEW DELHI -- Police officers in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh were called to a Christian church in the Maharajganj district on Friday by members of a Hindu [...]

NEW DELHI -- The Indian state of Gujarat is tightening the punishment for the slaughter of cows, considered sacred in Hinduism, to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The move [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNEW DELHI -- The 43-year-old Badarpur Thermal Power Station, a coal-burning plant on the edge of what has been called the world's most polluted city, New Delhi, was quietly [...]

NEW DELHI -- Jeena Sharma, 25, was applying for a work visa to the United States when news came that two Indian engineers had been shot in a Kansas bar [...]

Byline: ELLEN BARRY and NIDA NAJAR NEW DELHI -- Jeena Sharma, 25, was applying for a work visa to the United States when news came that two Indian engineers had [...]

OLATHE, Kan. -- ''The Jameson guys,'' as some on the staff at Austins Bar and Grill knew the pair, were on the patio on Wednesday evening. It was hardly unusual: [...]

NEW DELHI -- Three Indian soldiers were killed in a gun battle with militants in Kashmir on Thursday morning, the latest in a series of army casualties in the region, [...]

MUMBAI, India -- A modern Indian wedding might include a dayslong celebration, ornate invitations, elephants covered in finery and a bride adorned in gold. But in an effort to curb [...]

NEW DELHI -- A former president of the Maldives, who now lives in exile in London, is planning to run in his party's internal primaries with the hope of becoming [...]

NEW DELHI -- Streets throughout the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India were brought to a standstill on Thursday as protests over a ban on a traditional bull wrestling [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNEW DELHI -- It is an image familiar to every Indian -- an icon in an iconic pose. Mohandas K. Gandhi, the father of independent India, sits at a [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal, still in shambles nearly two years after two devastating earthquakes, removed its top reconstruction official on Wednesday and reinstalled his predecessor, a move that is likely [...]

NEW DELHI -- Om Puri, one of the most acclaimed Indian actors of his generation, whose four-decade career included appearances in well-received British and American films, died on Friday at [...]

Byline: NIDA NAJAR NEW DELHI -- Om Puri, one of the most acclaimed Indian actors of his generation, whose four-decade career included appearances in well-received British and American films, died [...]

Indians have long practiced the willfully inexact science -- some would call it an art -- of jugaad. It is a Hindi word whose specific meaning is a trucklike vehicle [...]

NEW DELHI -- There is no mistaking what the security camera captured. A young woman walking in a residential neighborhood is followed and intercepted by men on a motor scooter [...]

NEW DELHI -- News of a ''mass molestation'' surfaced swiftly in the Indian news media: Numerous women being groped, harassed and chased on the streets of Bangalore by an unruly [...]

Byline: NIDA NAJAR Correction Appended NEW DELHI -- News of a 'mass molestation' surfaced swiftly in the Indian news media: Numerous women being groped, harassed and chased on the streets [...]

IMPHAL, India -- In her makeshift campaign office, surrounded by plywood desks and a giant whiteboard, Irom Chanu Sharmila rambled a bit, talking about the nearly 16 years she fasted [...]

Byline: NIDA NAJAR IMPHAL, India -- In her makeshift campaign office, surrounded by plywood desks and a giant whiteboard, Irom Chanu Sharmila rambled a bit, talking about the nearly 16 [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's Supreme Court on Friday banned the sale of firecrackers in the capital region, reflecting a growing sense of urgency after a thick smog engulfed Delhi for [...]

NEW DELHI -- Fourteen coaches of an Indian train derailed early Sunday, killing at least 108 people in one of the worst rail accidents here in recent years, the police [...]

NEW DELHI -- At a college fair on Wednesday at the Le Méridien hotel here, 20 American universities made their pitches to aspiring students, many of whom had long hoped [...]

NEW DELHI -- As the chaos surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ban on high-currency bills entered its ninth day, the government moved Thursday to address some of the problems amid [...]

NEW DELHI -- At a college fair on Wednesday at the Le Méridien hotel here, 20 American universities made their pitches to aspiring students, many of whom had long hoped [...]

NEW DELHI -- The Indian government has banned a nongovernmental organization run by a popular televangelist preacher, Zakir Naik, after accusations that he promoted terrorism through his speeches. The decision [...]

NEW DELHI -- The government of the Maldives announced on Thursday that it would leave the Commonwealth, saying it had been treated ''unjustly and unfairly'' over questions about its human [...]

NEW DELHI -- More than two years into his tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to have broad support in India, despite criticism over stalled economic reforms and religious and [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNEW DELHI -- Violent protests broke out in the southern state of Karnataka on Monday after the Indian Supreme Court ordered the state to release water to the neighboring [...]

Byline: KAI SCHULTZ and NIDA NAJAR KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Mountaineers were dubious in June, when Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod announced that they had achieved a lifelong goal, becoming the first [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Mountaineers were dubious in June, when Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod announced that they had achieved a lifelong goal, becoming the first Indian couple to climb to the [...]