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NEAR SABARIMALA TEMPLE, India -- As a woman and a man climbed a steep trail on Thursday leading to one of Hinduism's holiest temples, a mob multiplied with frightening speed. [...]

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 [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- At least eight climbers, including a South Korean world-record holder, were killed after a violent snowstorm ripped through their camp in the Himalaya Mountains in Nepal, officials [...]

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 [...]

NEW DELHI -- A powerful cyclone touched down in eastern India on Thursday, cutting off electricity, uprooting trees, crumbling mud houses and killing at least eight people, officials said. The [...]

Byline: VINDU GOEL, AYESHA VENKATARAMAN and KAI SCHULTZ MUMBAI, India -- After a year of fits and starts, India's #MeToo movement has leapt forward over the past week, getting concrete [...]

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 [...]

Byline: JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and KAI SCHULTZ NEW DELHI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India swept into office four years ago vowing to crush corruption. Some of his most momentous [...]

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 -- India has criminalized a centuries-old practice in which Muslim men could instantly divorce their wives, a step that has polarized political parties over how deeply the government [...]

Byline: KAI SCHULTZ KATHMANDU, Nepal -- When Geoffrey Chang, an Australian trekker heading to Mount Everest Base Camp, woke up with chest pain, his Nepali guide pushed immediately for a [...]

NEW DELHI -- Even as gay activists in India celebrated on Friday, a day after a landmark Supreme Court ruling ended the country's ban on gay sex, they were preparing [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down one of the world's oldest bans on consensual gay sex, a groundbreaking victory for gay rights that buried one [...]

Byline: JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, KAI SCHULTZ and SUHASINI RAJ NEW DELHI -- In a groundbreaking victory for gay rights, India's Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down one of the world's [...]

NEW DELHI -- It is one of the world's oldest laws criminalizing consensual gay sex, and after weeks of deliberation, India's top court is set to decide whether it should [...]

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- When Geoffrey Chang, an Australian trekker heading to Mount Everest Base Camp, woke up with chest pain, his Nepali guide pushed immediately for a medical evacuation, saying [...]

NEW DELHI -- A portion of a bridge in the Indian city of Kolkata collapsed on Tuesday, sending vehicles nose-diving into the wreckage, killing at least one person and possibly [...]

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 [...]

LALITPUR, Nepal -- Man Bahadur Thapa cannot sleep. At home in Lalitpur, a Nepali city of ancient temples, the pricking pain from the shrapnel lodged in his body keeps him [...]

MALÉ, Maldives -- A criminal court in the Maldives on Thursday cleared charges against two men accused of kidnapping a prominent journalist who wrote pointed critiques of the government and [...]

Byline: KAI SCHULTZ 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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: KAI SCHULTZ and SUHASINI RAJ CHENNAI, India -- After school, when the 11-year-old girl rode her bicycle around the well-to-do apartment complex where she lived with her family in [...]

CHENNAI, India -- After school, when the 11-year-old girl rode her bicycle around the well-to-do apartment complex where she lived with her family in Chennai in southeastern India, an elevator [...]

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 [...]

Byline: KAI SCHULTZ and SUHASINI RAJ NEW DELHI -- For months, the police say, a group of men took turns raping an 11-year-old girl. In the gated community in Chennai, [...]

NEW DELHI -- For months, the police say, a group of men took turns raping an 11-year-old girl. In the gated community in Chennai, India, where the girl lived with [...]

Byline: KAI SCHULTZ and SUHASINI RAJ PURI, India -- A group of men in loincloths assembled outside a 12th-century temple on a hot April day in Puri, India, preparing to [...]

PURI, India -- A group of men in loincloths assembled outside a 12th-century temple on a hot April day in Puri, India, preparing to venture deep inside to a pitch-black [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's Supreme Court on Tuesday started hearing a challenge to one of the world's oldest laws criminalizing consensual gay sex, a debate that has raised broader questions [...]

NEW DELHI -- At least 48 people were killed and a dozen more injured after an overloaded bus plunged into a gorge in northern India early Sunday, the police said. [...]

MUMBAI, India -- A chartered plane carrying four people crashed into a construction site in a suburb of Mumbai, India's financial capital, on Thursday, killing everyone on board and at [...]

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 [...]

SRINAGAR, Kashmir -- A well-known journalist in Kashmir who worked to bring stability and peace to the mountainous, war-afflicted region, was shot to death on Thursday. The journalist, Shujaat Bukhari, [...]

NEW DELHI -- Priyanka Chopra, one of India's most famous actresses, who found crossover appeal playing an F.B.I. recruit on the ABC drama ''Quantico,'' has apologized for a plotline involving [...]

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 [...]

BILASPUR, India -- If you had told Ayesha Kapur 10 years ago that she would help lead the fight against one of the world's oldest laws criminalizing gay sex, she [...]

Byline: KAI SCHULTZ BILASPUR, India -- If you had told Ayesha Kapur 10 years ago that she would help lead the fight against one of the world's oldest laws criminalizing [...]

KARTIKE, Nepal -- When Peter Dalglish, a lauded humanitarian worker, built a sleek cabin near a Nepalese village of rutted roads and hills ribbed with rice paddies, locals knew virtually [...]

NEW DELHI -- India's Supreme Court on Wednesday faulted the country's archaeological conservation body for failing to protect the Taj Mahal from discoloration, dirty feet and green slime emitted by [...]

RAIPUR, India -- The Indian authorities on Saturday arrested 15 people in connection with the gang rape and killing of a teenage girl, the latest in a recent string of [...]

NEW DELHI -- A powerful dust storm ripped through northern India on Wednesday, killing at least 94 people and toppling houses, trees and electricity poles, government officials said. The storm [...]

NEW DELHI -- An Indian court on Wednesday sentenced an influential guru to life in prison for the rape of a teenage girl, putting to rest a long legal battle [...]

NEW DELHI -- A speeding freight train traveling through eastern India on Monday barreled into a herd of elephants as they were crossing railroad tracks, killing a calf and three [...]

NEW DELHI -- A speeding school bus plunged off a mountainside in northern India on Monday, killing 23 children and four adults, an official said. Several children survived. ''The scene [...]

NEW DELHI -- An Indian court convicted the Bollywood star Salman Khan on Thursday in two cases of killing rare antelopes, settling -- for now -- a bitter legal battle [...]

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 [...]

Byline: BHADRA SHARMA and KAI SCHULTZ LUKLA, Nepal -- Last weekend, a group of Sherpas gathered outside Buddha Lodge in this speck of a town near Mount Everest, stuffing cloth [...]