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Censorship and politics are fracturing the global internet, isolating users and industries accustomed to ignoring national borders. The global internet is fracturing. And people like Anusmita Dutta are paying the [...]

India's women were already dropping out of the labor force. Coronavirus restrictions -- and one of the worst economic slumps in decades -- threaten even more losses for them. NEW [...]

As India starts loosening restrictions, a once-broad consensus among leaders on how to proceed has weakened -- and many people are staying home anyway. NEW DELHI -- When the Indian [...]

Indian citizens fill critical jobs in the United States in tech and business. Now, they fear for their futures -- the ''upending of life by a tweet.'' NEW DELHI -- [...]

Pushed out of their village by a drought and lack of food, a group of Nepalis are fighting to amplify the voices of those forced to relocate by the planet's [...]

For many years Dior, Saint Laurent and other fashion brands have been quietly using Indian embroiderers for their goods, depending on their expertise while offering little in the way of [...]

It's unclear what Gen. Bipin Rawat, chief of India's defense staff, meant. But rights activists fear that something like what China has introduced for Uighurs could be coming. NEW DELHI [...]

Officials chose to disclose figures about attacks committed by left-wing extremists but not religious-based crimes or violence against journalists. NEW DELHI -- When India released its annual crime report this [...]

As concerns about air pollution rise, India has mandated only eco-friendly fireworks ahead of the festival of Diwali. Manufacturers are skeptical, and desperate. ROHTAK, India -- Diwali is the Hindu [...]

VRINDAVAN, India -- Like thousands of other widows exiled from their homes to a city in northern India, Nirmala Maheshwari said she was abused by her family after her husband [...]

NEW DELHI -- On Aug. 5, at 1:15 a.m., Asifa Mubeen was woken up by the sound of barking dogs as police officers began pouring into her yard. Her husband, [...]

NEW DELHI -- India announced on Friday that restrictions in Kashmir, which has been locked down for nearly two weeks, would be eased over the next few days, with schools [...]

NEW DELHI -- Pakistan announced on Wednesday that it would halt trade with India and expel the country's top diplomat in Islamabad in retaliation for India's decision to unilaterally eliminate [...]

NEW DELHI -- To India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, eliminating the autonomy of Kashmir, a disputed, predominantly Muslim territory, was an administrative move, something his ministers had presented as simply [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's Hindu nationalist government on Monday unilaterally wiped out the autonomy of the restive Kashmir region, sending in thousands of army troops to quell any possible unrest [...]

NEW DELHI -- V. G. Siddhartha, a tycoon who beat Starbucks to dominate India's retail coffee industry but faced personal financial troubles, was found dead on Wednesday, the police said. [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's population of endangered Bengal tigers is on the rise, officials said Monday. According to a government estimate, there are nearly 3,000 Bengal tigers in the wild [...]

GORGAMA, Nepal -- In Nepal's hot southern plains, Rajesh Sada's mother had one wish: that she would live to see the marriage of her 16-year-old son before she succumbed to [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A few years ago, Kami Rita Sherpa, a veteran climber and guide, met with a gruesome sight at Mount Everest Base Camp. Human bones poked from the [...]

NEW DELHI -- Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, is returning to power by an astonishing margin -- defying expectations, leaving the political opposition gutted and securing nearly two-thirds of the [...]

NEW DELHI -- He called himself India's watchman, even as minorities said they felt unsafe under his gaze. He boasted of his humble origins while doing favors for billionaires. He [...]

After hundreds of millions of Indians cast ballots across megacities, mountains and islands, Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the biggest re-election India has witnessed in decades. Mr. Modi, 68, has [...]

WERAPITIYA, Sri Lanka -- Tucked away behind a ridge, surrounded by lush mountains where 45 bird species chirp, is a luxury resort that sells peace of mind for about $900 [...]

INDORE, India -- At an engineering college in the middle of India, three first-time voters stretched out on classroom benches and debated whether to re-elect Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Monika [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- In a room in front of the nurse's station at Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children, in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, a 5-year-old girl rolls [...]

NEW DELHI -- The planned city of Gurugram, one of India's industrial hubs, has glass-sided office buildings and swanky, high-rise apartments. But now, according to a new report, it can [...]

NEW DELHI -- An Indian government board that had opposed allowing women to enter a Hindu temple changed its position on Wednesday, saying that women had the right to pray [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- When Amba Bohara's period came this week, she followed a familiar routine in western Nepal. Considered impure in her village because she was menstruating, Ms. Bohara barricaded [...]

NEW DELHI -- Two women, accompanied by plainclothes police officers under the cover of darkness early on Wednesday morning, entered a centuries-old Hindu shrine in southern India that has long [...]

NEW DELHI -- Is India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, in trouble?With his white beard and booming speeches (and supposedly 56-inch chest), Mr. Modi swept into power four years ago by [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- For months, the government of Nepal has struggled to contain public anger over a rise in sexual assaults in this small Himalayan nation -- up 60 percent [...]

MUMBAI, India -- After a year of fits and starts, India's #MeToo movement has leapt forward over the past week, getting concrete action in two of the country's most powerful [...]

NEW DELHI -- Following the headlines, you might get the feeling that India's Supreme Court is everywhere at once, all the time. You wouldn't be far off. On Thursday, the [...]

NEW DELHI -- Vernon Gonsalves, a rights activist, was preparing for his morning bath when the police banged on his front door. Officers rummaged through his home in Mumbai for [...]

NEW DELHI -- The Indian government released a draft list of citizens living in a northeastern state on Monday that excluded about four million people, raising concerns about the possible [...]

Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. NEW DELHI -- For over 150 years, a law called Section 377 [...]

SRINAGAR, Kashmir -- India's governing party ended an alliance with a powerful regional party in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, leading to the resignation of a [...]

GHAZIPUR, India -- Huddled in a stinky, airless room near the center of India's capital, Rammurti fumed over the 17-story-high mountain of trash half a mile from her home. The [...]

NEW DELHI -- The Indian government called the decree a crackdown on fake news. It lasted less than a day. On Monday evening, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting abruptly [...]

NEW DELHI -- An Indian publisher has removed from its online store a children's book that included Hitler on a list of world leaders who ''devoted their lives for the [...]

LUKLA, Nepal -- Last weekend, a group of Sherpas gathered outside Buddha Lodge in this speck of a town near Mount Everest, stuffing cloth sacks filled with thousands of pounds [...]

HYDERABAD, India -- She was awarded one of India's highest civilian honors, brushed aside a fatwa issued against her and has traveled extensively despite threats to her safety, but on [...]

MADHURA, India -- The well-wishers had all gathered even though neither the teenage bride-to-be nor her mother wanted the girl to go through with the wedding. It took a police [...]

MADHURA, India -- The well-wishers had all gathered even though neither the teenage bride-to-be nor her mother wanted the girl to go through with the wedding. It took a police [...]

KASGANJ, India -- Rahul Upadhyay, a wiry journalist with a shock of black hair, was at home when he received news of his death. During celebrations on India's Republic Day, [...]

MUMBAI, India -- Mumbai, India's bustling commercial hub, came to a standstill on Wednesday as protesters called for a general strike and thousands took to the streets. The catalyst for [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A group of plainclothes investigators assembled outside an animal smuggler's house in the Himalayas recently, waiting for signs of life. Working off a tip that two baby [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Communist parties in Nepal with closer ties to neighboring China have emerged victorious in the country's largest democratic exercise ever. A powerful political coalition of two communist [...]

NEW DELHI -- As millions of Indians watched a televised cricket match this week between the national teams of India and Sri Lanka, the game suddenly stopped. The pollution in [...]

FATEHPUR SIKRI, India -- Quentin Jérémy Clerc and Marie Droz were getting away from the tourist trail. Visiting Fatehpur Sikri -- once the capital of the Mughal Empire, and about [...]