Narendra Modi
Gold medalist Neeraj Chopra, of India, poses during the medal ceremony for the men's javelin throw at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Chopra wins India’s 1st gold in Olympic track and field

By John Pye Aug. 07, 2021 08:51 AM EDT

Munni Kol, 70, in white, with his son Bishambar Kol, daughters-in-law, Asha and Manju, and his grandchildren pose for a photograph in front of their home, in Jamsoti village, Uttar Pradesh state, India, on June 8, 2021. Kol got himself vaccinated against the coronavirus, where as his family has refused to. India's vaccination efforts are being undermined by widespread hesitancy and fear of the jabs, fueled by misinformation and mistrust. That's especially true in rural India, where two-thirds of the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people live. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Vaccine hesitancy puts India's gains against virus at risk

By Rajesh Kumar Singh Jun. 21, 2021 01:10 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 28, 2021, file photo, motorists line up to receive Covishield, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 at a drive-in vaccination facility in Ahmedabad, India. Starting June 21, 2021, every Indian adult can get a COVID-19 vaccine dose for free that was purchased by the federal government. The policy reversal announced last week ends a complex system of buying vaccines that worsened inequities in accessing vaccines. India is a key global supplier of vaccines and its missteps have left millions of people waiting unprotected. The policy change is likely to address inequality but questions remain and shortages will continue. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)
EXPLAINER: How India is changing vaccine plan amid shortages

By Aniruddha Ghosal Jun. 18, 2021 02:07 AM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, file photo, India's Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, left, and Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar address a press conference announcing new regulations for social media companies and digital streaming websites in New Delhi, India. The standoff between the Indian government and Twitter escalated Wednesday, June 16, when the country’s technology minister accused the social media giant of deliberately not complying with local laws. Prasad said Twitter has chosen “the path of deliberate defiance” when it comes to following new internet regulations that digital activists have said could curtail online speech and privacy in India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
India says Twitter knowingly not complying with local laws

By Sheikh Saaliq Jun. 16, 2021 04:09 AM EDT

Daily wage laborers wait to be employed for the day, on a street in Mumbai, India, Friday, June 11, 2021. India’s economy was on the cusp of recovery from the first pandemic shock when a new wave of infections swept the country, infecting millions, killing hundreds of thousands and forcing many people to stay home. Cases are now tapering off, but prospects for many Indians are drastically worse as salaried jobs vanish, incomes shrink and inequality is rising. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Pandemic relapse spells trouble for India's middle class

By Krutika Pathi Jun. 12, 2021 12:55 AM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press Jun. 08, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Tuesday, June 8, the 159th day of 2021. There are 206 days left in the year. Today’s...

FILE - In this June 5, 2021, file photo, a farmer waits for customers at a wholesale market on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India. On Monday, June 7, 2021, businesses in two of India’s largest cities, New Delhi and Mumbai, are reopening as part of a phased easing of lockdown measures in several states now that the number of new coronavirus infections in the country is on a steady decline. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)
India to provide free vaccines to all in major policy shift

By Sheikh Saaliq Jun. 07, 2021 02:18 AM EDT

Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 vaccination program, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
US to swiftly boost global vaccine sharing, Biden announces

By Zeke Miller Jun. 03, 2021 11:15 AM EDT

FILE - This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twitter on Thursday, May 27, 2021 said it is worried about the safety of its staff in India and called for the government to respect freedom of expression, days after Indian police visited its office in New Delhi over its labeling of a tweet by a governing party spokesman as “manipulated media.” (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Twitter urges Indian gov't to respect freedom of expression

By Sheikh Saaliq May. 27, 2021 06:12 AM EDT

Protesting farmers burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Delhi- Haryana border, outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Farmers are marking six months of their agitation against the new agricultural laws they say will leave them poorer and at the mercy of big corporations. The government has billed the laws as necessary to modernize agriculture. Multiple rounds of talks between the government and farmers have failed to end the stalemate. (AP Photo/Ishant Chauhan)
Indian farmers mark 6 months of protest with no end in sight

Rishabh Raj Jain May. 26, 2021 07:51 AM EDT

A man reacts as a health worker in protective suit takes his nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Satish Sharma)
India battles fatal fungal threat as virus deaths near 300K

By Sheikh Saaliq May. 23, 2021 01:55 AM EDT

Gangaiah, son of Padmavathi who died of COVID-19, gives sanitizer to his elder daughter Shanti as two-year-old Priya looks on inside their family hut which is made from bamboo and plastic sheeting at a slum in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Padmavathi collected hair, taking it from women's combs and hairbrushes to later be used for wigs. She earned about $50 a month. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
The poor, the rich: In a sick India, all are on their own

By Aniruddha Ghosal And Aijaz Hussain May. 23, 2021 01:29 AM EDT

Gangaiah, son of Padmavathi who died of COVID-19, holds his two-year-old daughter Priya outside their family hut in a slum in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Padmavathi collected hair, taking it from women's combs and hairbrushes to later be used for wigs. She earned about $50 a month. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
The poor, the rich: In a sick India, all are on their own

By Aniruddha Ghosal, Aijaz Hussain And Tim Sullivan May. 23, 2021 01:27 AM EDT

FILE- In this Jan. 21, 2021, file photo, employees pack boxes containing vials of Covishield, a version of the AstraZeneca vaccine at the Serum Institute of India in Pune, India. India, the world’s largest maker of vaccines, was expected to play a pivotal role in global efforts to immunize against COVID-19. But its own capacity is proving to be insufficient for its own massive needs amid a ferocious surge of new infections. In past weeks, many people wanting to get vaccines have been turned away. Experts say that this is due to bad planning. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
EXPLAINER: Why 'world's pharmacy' India is short on shots

By Aniruddha Ghosal May. 22, 2021 12:09 AM EDT

Fishing boats that stayed off the Arabian Sea due to Cyclone Tauktae are anchored in the backwaters in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Sunday, May 16, 2021. A severe cyclone is roaring in the Arabian Sea off southwestern India with winds of up to 140 kilometers per hour (87 miles per hour), already causing heavy rains and flooding that have killed at least four people, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)
Severe cyclone heading toward southern India; 6 dead

May. 16, 2021 05:18 AM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2015, file photo, Mt. Everest is seen from the way to Kalapatthar in Nepal. China will draw a “separation line” atop Mount Everest to prevent the coronavirus from being spread by climbers ascending Nepal's side of the mountain, Chinese state media reported Monday. (AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa, File)
The Latest: Florida's amusement parks loosen mask wearing

By The Associated Press May. 15, 2021 01:26 AM EDT

FILE- In this April 24, 2021, file photo, police personnel help an elderly woman outside a vaccination center in Mumbai, India. Misinformation about the coronavirus is surging in India as the death toll from COVID-19 rises. Fueled by anguish, distrust and political polarization, the claims are further compounding India's crisis. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)
Misinformation surges amid India's COVID-19 calamity

By David Klepper And Neha Mehrotra May. 14, 2021 12:21 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 10, 2021, file photo, health workers and volunteers in personal protective suits wait to receive patients outside a COVID-19 hospital that was set up at a Sikh Gurdwara in New Delhi, India. The World Health Organization said Monday, May 10, that a worrisome variant was first detected in India may spread more easily. Scientists are still trying to figure out if it resulted in the terrifying surge of infections in the nation, and looking to see if this could this happen elsewhere. (AP Photo/Ishant Chauhan, File )
Scientists race to study variants in India as cases explode

By Aniruddha Ghosal And Krutika Pathi May. 12, 2021 12:06 AM EDT

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Porto, Portugal, Saturday, May 8, 2021. On Saturday, EU leaders held an online summit with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, covering trade, climate change and help with India's COVID-19 surge. (AP Photo/Luis Vieira)
EU, India try again to clinch trade deal, sidelining China

By Barry Hatton May. 08, 2021 11:15 AM EDT

Indians cover their faces as a precaution against the coronavirus line up to receive the vaccine for COVID-19 at a medical college in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 8, 2021. Two southern states in India became the latest to declare lockdowns, as coronavirus cases surge at breakneck speed across the country and pressure mounts on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to implement a nationwide shutdown. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
India's surge hits southern states, prompts more lockdowns

By Krutika Pathi May. 08, 2021 01:48 AM EDT