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India Surpasses 8 Million Coronavirus Cases; 2nd Only To U.S.
India has surpassed 8 million confirmed coronavirus cases, making it the second country to reach that milestone after the United States. Daily new cases in India are continuing to drop after a record...
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Child Marriages Are Up In The Pandemic. Here's How India Tries To Stop Them
Sometimes the call comes from a teenage girl.She is pleading for help, "saying her parents are trying to get her married but she wants to stay in school," says Vijay Muttur.He's the child protection...
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Residents Of Indian Capital Sound Alarms About Air Pollution Amid Diwali And...
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Fireworks Of Diwali Spark Worries About Pollution ... And Coronavirus Cases
New Delhi's air quality has already reached its worst level this year. And the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, which starts this weekend, is likely to make things even worse as the traditional rounds...
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From Around The World: How To Have A Happy(ish) Pandemic Thanksgiving
A lot will be missing about Thanksgiving this year. It's a holiday that's celebrated on a bedrock of bringing family and friends, near and far, together for a big meal and lots of catching up, but the...
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Crowds Of Indian Farmers Gather For Days To Protest New Agriculture Laws
Tens of thousands of farmers manned barricades and blocked highways Friday around India's capital of New Delhi for a ninth straight day, protesting new agricultural laws they fear may hurt their...
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A Botanist's Quest To Help India Grow Its Most Popular Herb
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Indian Farmers Demand Repeal Of Agriculture Industry Reform Laws
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Even With 10 Million COVID-19 Cases, A Doctor Says India 'Dodged A Bullet'
Although India's COVID-19 case numbers and deaths are grim, the country has "dodged a bullet" in the pandemic.That's according to Dr. Gagandeep Kang, an infectious diseases researcher at the Christian...
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India Authorizes AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use
India's drug regulators gave the country a gift on New Year's Day: a vaccine against the coronavirus.An Indian minister confirmed reports that an expert panel had authorized the AstraZeneca vaccine for...
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Village Teacher Wins $1 Million Prize For World's Most 'Exceptional' Educator
In 2010, Indian teacher Ranjitsinh Disale heard that one of his teenage female students was going to marry a man in his 30s. "I directly went to the girl's house and told her father, 'You cannot do...
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Indian Woman Sued For Defamation Over #MeToo Complaint Against Her Boss Is...
A court in New Delhi delivered a verdict Wednesday in one of India's most high-profile #MeToo cases. But it was the accuser herself who was on trial, not the man she alleged had sexually harassed...
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How Bubonic Plague Reshaped The Streets Of Mumbai
On a leafy uphill road in Mumbai's Bandra suburb, a fire burns at a Catholic shrine. Garlands adorn a cross and idols of saints below it as pedestrians walk by wearing masks. A nondescript sign at the...
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India Sees Spike In Confirmed Coronavirus Cases — And Variants
India is seeing a substantial number of coronavirus variants. But it is unclear whether these are contributing to a new surge in cases there. On Wednesday, India reported 47,262 new cases, the highest...
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India's All-Female News Outlet Battles Sexism, Caste — And Hits The Silver...
In a mud-walled house in rural northern India, Meera Devi sits across from a woman who recounts how four men broke into her house and raped her."They [people in positions of political power or of a...
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Reviving 19th Century Drinking Fountains Could Help Mumbai's Poor
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PHOTOS: Mumbai Falls In Love All Over Again With Its Forgotten Fountains
In a narrow lane near Mumbai's docks, commuters on bicycles weave through the crowd as workers push wooden carts loaded with heavy burlap sacks into warehouses.Thirty-eight-year-old laborer Mohammad...
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Millions Flock To Hindu Festival Amid Coronavirus Spike
HYDERABAD, India — One of the largest gatherings of people in the world continues in northern India amid a sharp rise in coronavirus cases and a weakening supply of vaccines. Almost 3 million Hindu...
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India Confirms More Than 200,000 Coronavirus Cases In A Day
India surpassed a somber COVID milestone Thursday, confirming more than 200,000 new cases in a single day as patients and doctors grapple with a shortage of beds and cities announce curfews.Coronavirus...
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India Is Counting Thousands Of Daily COVID Deaths. How Many Is It Missing?
MUMBAI — Santosh Pandey's wife is the head of their village, population about 1,600, near the holy city of Varanasi in northern India. He sometimes answers her phone. So he's up to date on what's...
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Why Is India Running Out Of Oxygen?
MUMBAI, India — Sanchi Gupta was running around, trying to get her hands on an oxygen cylinder — even an empty one.Her mother was one of 140 COVID-19 patients in Saroj Hospital, one of the...
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Indian Premier League Suspends Cricket Tournament Amid COVID-19 Crisis
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India's Major Cricket Tournament Got Suspended. Should It Have Even Happened?
Sohini Mitter is a huge cricket fan. Normally, she would never miss the Indian Premier League (IPL), a glamorous, action-packed cricket tournament held every year during the months of April and May —...
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In Rural India, Less COVID-19 Testing, More Fear — And A Few Ventilators For...
MUMBAI, India — Watching horrifying scenes in India's big cities, where COVID-19 patients have been unable to get ambulances, and even the best-equipped hospitals have run out of oxygen, Saurav Kumar...
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Kids In India Are Asking Heartbreaking COVID-19 Questions. Here's How To...
Each week, we answer frequently asked questions about life during the coronavirus crisis. This week, we look at some of the questions being posed by children in India, which is in the midst of the...
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Skateboarding Gives Freedom To Rural Indian Teen In Netflix Film — And In...
When Asha Gond first started skateboarding, neighbors in her village of Janwar in central India were aghast. They urged the teenager's parents to keep her busy with housework or get her married. When...
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Bangladesh Locks Down As Daily COVID Cases Quintuple
The coronavirus has silenced even Dhaka's cacophony. The notoriously traffic-clogged streets of Bangladesh's capital were eerily empty Thursday, save for soldiers on patrol on the first day of a...
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Thousands Given Fake Vaccines Through Scam In India
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India's Single-Screen Cinemas Were Struggling Before COVID-19. Now They're...
MUMBAI — The slightly rusty metal gates of a single-screen cinema creak as they open to reveal a nearly 100-year-old white building whose curved contours and ziggurat roofline hark back to its Art Deco...
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India's COVID-19 Death Toll May Be 10 Times The Official Figure, Study Suggests
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India's Pandemic Death Toll Estimated At About 4 Million: 10 Times The...
How many people have died of COVID-19 since the pandemic began?The official global total as of this week: 4.1 million.But everyone agrees the true toll is far greater. A study released on Tuesday looks...
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A Controversial Solution To Menstrual Exile: Building Better Menstrual Huts
When Chetana Madavi, 29, gets her period, she gathers a few clothes and makes her way to a kurma ghar— or menstruation hut — a few blocks from her home in a tribal community in the western Indian state...
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Whatever Happened To ... The Teen Hailed For Cycling 700 Miles With Her...
India imposed a strict COVID-19 lockdown last year, and tens of millions of poor day laborers lost their jobs. In a massive exodus from megacities, migrant workers sought safety in their native...
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India's Vaccination Drive Has Gathered Speed, But Millions Remain Vulnerable
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5 Things To Know About Biden's Quad Summit With Leaders Of India, Australia...
When President Biden hosts the leaders of Japan, Australia and India at the White House on Friday, it will be part of a push, analysts say, to reorient U.S. foreign policy away from long wars and...
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India may raise the age of marriage for girls. Not everyone thinks that's a...
On a hot afternoon in August, 16-year-old Punam Mitharwal finished a routine college test and made her way to the nearest post office in her northern Indian town of Hisar to send a special bit of mail....
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A 15-year-old girl invented a solar ironing cart that's winning global respect
Vinisha Umashankar was returning to her home in southern India from school a few years ago when she saw a man throwing away burnt charcoal on the side of the street.He was an ironing vendor who pressed...
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Here's how India is celebrating Diwali
Hindus across the world are celebrating Diwali. The five-day festival of lights is one of the most popular holidays in India, and Thursday is the main day of festivities, when the faithful pray to the...
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Popular Bollywood singer, Lata Mangeshkar, dies at 92
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'Writing With Fire' is up for an Oscar. But its subjects say they're...
It's been a month of highs – and controversies – for Writing With Fire, a documentary from India about Khabar Lahariya, the country's only major news outlet run by women from marginalized communities....
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In southern India, haleem is a cherished Ramadan tradition — and not just for...
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This goat and lentil stew is a beloved Ramadan tradition in Hyderabad, India
HYDERABAD, India — It's the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the Royal Hyatt convention center, which usually hosts wedding receptions, has been turned into a kitchen for Pista House, one of this...
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These female health-care workers won a huge WHO honor. They'd like a raise, too
India's task force of over a million female health-care workers has won a prestigious award from one of the highest institutions in global health.Unfortunately, it doesn't come with a cash...
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A bridge in India collapsed and killed more than 130 people
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How Asia's ex-richest man lost nearly $50 billion in just over a week
NEW DELHI — On Wednesday, Indian businessman Gautam Adani lost the title of Asia's richest man. In early January, not only was he the richest in Asia, he was the third-richest in the world and just a...
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Heavy rains in India have caused deadly flooding and landslides
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In India, a deep red drink is at the heart of summer
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Across South Asia, this sweet drink is synonymous with summertime refreshment
DELHI — On a hot, humid afternoon in Old Delhi, Abdul Wahid hacks at a big block of ice with a knife. The ice sits in a large pool of a deep, ruby-red liquid. As chunks break off, Wahid pours the icy...
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A city in India has been a melting pot of different faiths. What's testing...
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A Hindu-Muslim dispute tests centuries of interfaith culture in India's...
VARANASI, India — On a recent Friday afternoon in this holy city in northern India, scooters, pedestrians and cycle rickshaws jostled for space on a street leading to the city's most famous Hindu...
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