Asia Pacific Jun 6, 2023

In India, trains start running again by devastating crash site

The restoration of service could help more families reach the area to identify the dead. Officials said about 100 victims were still unclaimed.

Asia Pacific Jun 4, 2023

India’s worst rail disaster in decades convulses country dependent on trains

The government in Odisha, which is home to about 45 million people, declared a day of mourning.

Asia Pacific Apr 10, 2022

With a $2.1 million cure their only hope, Indian parents plead for help online

India makes many of the world’s drugs, but treatments for rare diseases like spinal muscular atrophy are imported and prohibitively costly.

Asia Pacific Jan 28, 2022

COVID-stunted educations dim prospects for India’s economy and its youth

Hundreds of millions of students across India have received little to no in-person instruction with schools intermittently shut down since the start of the pandemic.

Asia Pacific Dec 16, 2020

The virus trains: How lockdown chaos spread COVID-19 across India

Special trains operated by the government to ease suffering — and to counteract a disastrous lack of lockdown planning — instead played a significant role in spreading the coronavirus.

Asia Pacific / Politics Sep 3, 2020

In a changed Kashmir, moderates feel betrayed by India

For more than two decades, Peerzada Lateef Shah risked his life in a high-wire political process to bring peace to Kashmir, the mountainous, predominantly Muslim region that has long chafed under India’s rule. He organized rallies and encouraged Kashmiris to vote for a political party ...