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The top U.S. health official administered polio vaccination drops to children in New Delhi on Friday as India marked one year since its last case of the crippling disease.
If North Korea's new leader is looking for advice on how to carry on his family's dynasty, he could turn to Rahul Gandhi, who is on a quest to become the fourth generation of his family to rule India. Or to Joseph Kabila, who is celebrating his questionable re-election to the Congolese presidency he inherited from his father. Or to former Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of the country's first president.
India's top telecommunications official said Tuesday that Internet giants such as Facebook and Google have ignored his demands to screen derogatory material from their sites, so the government would have to act on its own.
The farmers of Rozajalalpur knew what was coming.
The musician strummed his dragon-headed lute, launching a nervous young woman into a high-pitched, ululating song broadcast live across the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
The village of Votbari is a tiny island of India surrounded by a sea of Bangladesh.
With India's government all but paralyzed by scandal, the Supreme Court has taken command of some of the nation's thorniest issues in what activists hail as an overdue flexing of judicial muscle but critics call an unconstitutional power grab.
The prime suspect in the deadly bomb attack in Mumbai — the Indian Mujahedeen — has re-emerged three years after authorities believed they virtually wiped out the terror group in a crackdown that left many of its leaders dead, in jail or hiding abroad.
In a lifetime spent advocating the plight of his Tibetan community, promoting inter-religious harmony and pleading for world peace, the Dalai Lama now faces perhaps his greatest challenge: trying to truly retire from politics.
The golden boy of Indian politics may be losing some of his sheen.
India's Supreme Court rejected an appeal Wednesday to reinstate stronger charges against seven people convicted of negligence in connection with the 1984 toxic gas leak in Bhopal that killed an estimated 15,000 people.
In his years as a police officer in the badlands of Manipur, Khaidem Muhi had his weapon seized by insurgents so many times that he was banned from the force for 12 years.
India's prime minister, his government embroiled in months of corruption scandals, on Friday denied personal involvement and knowledge of alleged vote-buying in parliament by his ruling Congress Party.
In its race to join the club of international powers, India has reached another milestone — it's now the world's largest weapons importer.
One of the world's most revered schools of Islamic learning decided Wednesday that its new, reformist leader would stay in office while an investigative panel examines charges against him, a spokesman said.
Tilkeshwar is one of India's forgotten villages.
India's parliament ended its paralyzed winter session Monday after four weeks that were largely devoid of work but filled with raucous opposition demands for an investigation into a telecom scandal that cost the country billions.
The top elected official of one of India's poorest states won a landslide re-election victory Wednesday by emphasizing efforts to bring development to Bihar and break away from traditional caste-based politics.
For much of the last decade, New Delhi sold itself as "India Rising." Barack Obama's trip here delivered a new message: India has risen.
President Barack Obama appealed Sunday for India and Pakistan to resolve their conflict through dialogue, saying that regional instability will only serve to distract India in its rise as a global economic power.
The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road. No power except from haphazard cables strung overhead illegally.
Indian authorities have deployed nearly 100,000 police officers in the streets of New Delhi, put fighter jets on standby and even brought in langur monkeys to help protect the largest international sporting event ever held here.
From a distance — and few are allowed to get close — the simple white tent housing the modest idol appears no more threatening than any of the thousands of other Hindu shrines in a town renowned for its temples.
Abid Hussein fears the deep floodwaters that destroyed his cotton crop, rotted his wheat seeds and swept away his farming tools are not done ravaging his life.
Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be.
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