Homeless people gather beside a portrait of Saint Teresa, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity, to collect free food outside the order’s headquarters in Kolkata, India, in August. Bikas Das/AP hide caption toggle caption Bikas Das/AP Homeless people gather beside a portrait of Saint Teresa, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity, to collect free food outside the order’s headquarters in Kolkata, India, in August. Bikas Das/AP For decades, a tiny Catholic nun in her signature blue and white sari cared for the sick and dying in the slums of what was then called Calcutta. Mother Teresa’s work drew donations […]
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Members of the National Students’ Union of India burn a poster showing Chinese President Xi Jinping during an anti-China demonstration in Ahmedabad on June 18, 2020. Sam Panthaky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sam Panthaky/AFP via Getty Images Members of the National Students’ Union of India burn a poster showing Chinese President Xi Jinping during an anti-China demonstration in Ahmedabad on June 18, 2020. Sam Panthaky/AFP via Getty Images KOLKATA, India — When Tony Liu was a child, a series of police raids in his hometown made him realize that some people saw him and his family as different […]
A still from the 1961 Hindi film Kabuliwala, directed by Hemen Gupta. Kabuliwala (1961) hide caption toggle caption Kabuliwala (1961) A still from the 1961 Hindi film Kabuliwala, directed by Hemen Gupta. Kabuliwala (1961) KOLKATA, India — When Ahmed Khan fled to India from his native Afghanistan three years ago, he left behind the constant din of rocket fire and a desperate search for work in a broken economy. He also acquired a new nickname: “Kabuliwala.” “Kabuliwala” refers to someone from the Afghan capital of Kabul in Bengali, Hindi and Urdu — some of the languages spoken in Khan’s new city, […]
Supporters of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, a group of farmers’ organizations, hold flags during a protest to mark one year since the introduction of divisive farm laws and to demand the withdrawal of the Electricity Amendment Bill, in Hyderabad, India, on Thursday. Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images Supporters of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, a group of farmers’ organizations, hold flags during a protest to mark one year since the introduction of divisive farm laws and to demand the withdrawal of the Electricity Amendment Bill, in Hyderabad, India, on Thursday. Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images […]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee speaks during a by-election campaign in Kolkata on Sept. 26. Famous for her fiery speeches and welfare programs geared toward women, Banerjee, 66, is beloved in her home state. This year, Time magazine included her in its list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto/Getty Images West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee speaks during a by-election campaign in Kolkata on Sept. 26. Famous for her fiery speeches and welfare programs geared toward women, Banerjee, 66, is beloved in her home state. This year, Time magazine included […]
A civil rights activist holds a placard during a 2020 demonstration in Bengaluru, India, condemning the proposal in several states of laws against so-called “love jihad.” That’s an unfounded conspiracy theory spread by Hindu nationalists who accuse Muslim men of wooing Hindu women in order to force them to convert to Islam. Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images A civil rights activist holds a placard during a 2020 demonstration in Bengaluru, India, condemning the proposal in several states of laws against so-called “love jihad.” That’s an unfounded conspiracy theory spread by Hindu nationalists […]
Indian field hockey players celebrate after winning the men’s bronze medal match over Germany at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images Indian field hockey players celebrate after winning the men’s bronze medal match over Germany at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images MUMBAI, India – As his teammates cried with joy, India’s goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh scrambled atop his goalposts, his padded legs dangling, and stretched his arms wide, pumping two fists in the air. The curse was broken. When India defeated Germany to win a bronze […]
Activists of Student Federation of India and All India Democratic Women’s Association hold placards during a protest against the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, in New Delhi on August 4, 2021. Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty Images Activists of Student Federation of India and All India Democratic Women’s Association hold placards during a protest against the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl, in New Delhi on August 4, 2021. Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty Images MUMBAI, India — The mysterious death of a 9-year-old girl from India’s most oppressed […]
The Serum Institute began mass-producing COVID vaccines even before approval. They’ve made millions of doses. But so far only about 4% of people in India are fully vaccinated. What went wrong? (Image credit: Noah Seelam/AFP via Getty Images) Source link
The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in a standoff with social media companies over what content gets investigated or blocked online, and who gets to decide. Bikas Das/AP hide caption toggle caption Bikas Das/AP The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in a standoff with social media companies over what content gets investigated or blocked online, and who gets to decide. Bikas Das/AP MUMBAI AND SAN FRANCISCO — One night last month, police crowded into the lobby of Twitter’s offices in India’s capital New Delhi. They were from an elite squad that normally investigates terrorism and […]
Health workers must overcome great challenges to battle one of the world’s most severe COVID-19 outbreaks, which stretch from villages without hospitals to the top of the world’s highest mountain. (Image credit: Rojan Shrestha/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Source link
Rains have washed away the top layer of sand of shallow graves at a cremation ground on the banks of the Ganges River in Shringverpur, northwest of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Coronavirus testing is limited in parts of rural India, but some of the people buried there are believed to have died of COVID-19. Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images Rains have washed away the top layer of sand of shallow graves at a cremation ground on the banks of the Ganges River in Shringverpur, northwest of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Coronavirus testing is limited in parts […]
Family members cremate the body of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, on Monday. Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images Family members cremate the body of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, on Monday. Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images MUMBAI, India — Outside an upscale Indian hospital last week, Baljeet Asthana put her phone on selfie mode, propped her eyeglasses on her head so she could stare directly into the camera, and hit record. Through a white polka-dot mask, she described her family’s […]
Hospitals don’t have enough oxygen for patients on ventilators. There are delivery bottlenecks. Families are sometimes told to get their own supplies. Health experts say it didn’t have to be this way. (Image credit: Sajjad Hussain /AFP via Getty Images) Source link
India has reported more than 20 million coronavirus cases, adding more than 2.6 million new cases in the past week alone. Here, women wait to refill empty oxygen cylinders in New Delhi. Oxygen shortages are blamed for deaths at even the best-equipped urban hospitals in India. Amal KS/Hindustan Times via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Amal KS/Hindustan Times via Getty Images India has reported more than 20 million coronavirus cases, adding more than 2.6 million new cases in the past week alone. Here, women wait to refill empty oxygen cylinders in New Delhi. Oxygen shortages are blamed for deaths at […]
Scientists, funeral directors and survivors say the real numbers of infections and deaths in India may be many multiples more than the reported figures. (Image credit: Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images) Source link
Police officers stand guard during a night curfew designed to limit the spread of the coronavirus in New Delhi April 6, 2021. The national capital imposed a 10 pm to 5 am curfew until April 30. Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images Police officers stand guard during a night curfew designed to limit the spread of the coronavirus in New Delhi April 6, 2021. The national capital imposed a 10 pm to 5 am curfew until April 30. Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images MUMBAI – India confirmed another record jump in COVID-19 cases […]
People wait for coronavirus tests outside a court in Mumbai on Monday as India reported its biggest single-day spike in confirmed coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. Rafiq Maqbool/AP hide caption toggle caption Rafiq Maqbool/AP People wait for coronavirus tests outside a court in Mumbai on Monday as India reported its biggest single-day spike in confirmed coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. Rafiq Maqbool/AP MUMBAI — India on Monday recorded its biggest daily jump in coronavirus infections, joining only a handful of countries, including the United States, to cross the threshold of 100,000 new cases in a single day. A surge […]
The Indian-made vaccine from Bharat Biotech has already been in use in the country. Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images The Indian-made vaccine from Bharat Biotech has already been in use in the country. Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images It turns out a COVID-19 vaccine that stirred controversy in India may be effective after all. The Indian government approved the use of the COVAXIN vaccine, made by the Indian company Bharat Biotech, on Jan. 3 – while clinical trials were ongoing, and before efficacy data was out. Scientists, public health experts and opposition […]
Farmer Ambadas Sanap, a plaid bandana around his neck and a Hindu mark of devotion on his forehead, grows tomatoes and bell peppers. He says he’d participate in the protests — except he’s too busy trying to sell his crops to feed his family of 9. Lauren Frayer/NPR hide caption toggle caption Lauren Frayer/NPR Farmer Ambadas Sanap, a plaid bandana around his neck and a Hindu mark of devotion on his forehead, grows tomatoes and bell peppers. He says he’d participate in the protests — except he’s too busy trying to sell his crops to feed his family of 9. Lauren […]
After a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in northern India on Sunday, people inspect a site near a damaged hydropower project at Reni village in Chamoli district in the country’s Uttarakhand state. AP hide caption toggle caption AP After a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in northern India on Sunday, people inspect a site near a damaged hydropower project at Reni village in Chamoli district in the country’s Uttarakhand state. AP A massive search-and-rescue operation was underway Sunday in northern India for at least 140 people missing after part of a Himalayan glacier broke off, […]
Sanitation worker Ramesh Solanki cleans the streets outside Palghar railway station. “I get up every morning at 5:30, and I see news about the vaccines on TV,” he says. “I don’t know about any controversies. I just know I’m proud to be part of this.” Viraj Nayar for NPR hide caption toggle caption Viraj Nayar for NPR Sanitation worker Ramesh Solanki cleans the streets outside Palghar railway station. “I get up every morning at 5:30, and I see news about the vaccines on TV,” he says. “I don’t know about any controversies. I just know I’m proud to be part of […]
From 100,000 cases a day in September, India is now down to about 10,000 a day. Is it climate? Demographics? Mask mandates? Scientists are looking for answers. (Image credit: Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) Source link
A medical worker inoculates a colleague with a COVID-19 vaccine at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Saturday. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images A medical worker inoculates a colleague with a COVID-19 vaccine at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Saturday. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images Cheers erupted in hospital wards across India on Saturday as a first group of nurses and sanitation workers rolled up their sleeves and got vaccinated against COVID-19, at the start of what’s likely to become the […]
A health worker wearing protective gear collects a swab sample from a woman during a medical screening for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a garment wholesale market in Mumbai, India, on Friday. Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images A health worker wearing protective gear collects a swab sample from a woman during a medical screening for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a garment wholesale market in Mumbai, India, on Friday. Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images India’s total reported coronavirus cases have surpassed 9 million – a milestone so far crossed only by the United States. […]
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivers an address to the nation from Wilmington, Del., on Saturday. Harris will not only be the first Black, and first female, vice president. She’s also the first Indian American and the first Asian American elected to the office. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivers an address to the nation from Wilmington, Del., on Saturday. Harris will not only be the first Black, and first female, vice president. She’s also the first Indian American and the first Asian American elected to the office. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty […]
Residents hold placards with the portrait of of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, as they celebrate her election victory in her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Saturday. STR/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption STR/AFP via Getty Images Residents hold placards with the portrait of of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, as they celebrate her election victory in her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Saturday. STR/AFP via Getty Images Firecrackers erupted Sunday in a tiny village surrounded by lush green rice paddies in southern India, where […]
Tourists visit the Taj Mahal on Monday, when it reopened after being closed for more than six months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Pawan Sharma/AP hide caption toggle caption Pawan Sharma/AP Tourists visit the Taj Mahal on Monday, when it reopened after being closed for more than six months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Pawan Sharma/AP Visitors are capped at 5,000 a day. Everyone must wear a mask and have their temperature taken. Tickets are digital. Selfies are allowed, but no group photos. And no touching the gleaming white marble. Those are among the new coronavirus-era rules at India’s Taj Mahal, […]
A health worker wearing protective gear collects a swab sample during a medical screening for the coronavirus in Mumbai on Wednesday. The number of registered coronavirus cases passed 5 million on Wednesday. Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images A health worker wearing protective gear collects a swab sample during a medical screening for the coronavirus in Mumbai on Wednesday. The number of registered coronavirus cases passed 5 million on Wednesday. Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images With nearly 98,000 new coronavirus cases confirmed Thursday, India again broke the record for the highest daily tally […]
Politicians gathered at India’s Parliament House ahead of the first session in six months, on Sept. 13 in New Delhi. Lawmakers were required to get tested for the coronavirus within 72 hours before entering parliament. Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images Politicians gathered at India’s Parliament House ahead of the first session in six months, on Sept. 13 in New Delhi. Lawmakers were required to get tested for the coronavirus within 72 hours before entering parliament. Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images India’s parliament reopened Monday for the first time in […]
Workers and day laborers gather outside shuttered stores Monday in New Delhi. Once the world’s fastest-growing major economy, India posted its steepest decline in gross domestic product in 24 years. Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg via Getty Images Workers and day laborers gather outside shuttered stores Monday in New Delhi. Once the world’s fastest-growing major economy, India posted its steepest decline in gross domestic product in 24 years. Anindito Mukherjee/Bloomberg via Getty Images With the coronavirus spreading faster in India than anywhere in the world, the Indian government on Monday announced the country’s biggest economic […]
Indian paramilitary soldiers carry the body of a paramilitary officer who died of COVID-19 to a crematorium in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on Tuesday. India is the third-ranked nation in the number of reported infections. Dar Yasin/AP hide caption toggle caption Dar Yasin/AP Indian paramilitary soldiers carry the body of a paramilitary officer who died of COVID-19 to a crematorium in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on Tuesday. India is the third-ranked nation in the number of reported infections. Dar Yasin/AP With 32,695 new coronavirus cases, India broke its own record Thursday for the virus’ biggest daily spike. India has been setting such records […]
A health worker takes a nasal swab of a person for COVID-19 at a hospital in New Delhi, India. India has overtaken Russia to become the third worst-affected nation by the coronavirus pandemic. Manish Swarup/AP hide caption toggle caption Manish Swarup/AP A health worker takes a nasal swab of a person for COVID-19 at a hospital in New Delhi, India. India has overtaken Russia to become the third worst-affected nation by the coronavirus pandemic. Manish Swarup/AP India has now surpassed Russia to become the third country worst-affected by the coronavirus, in terms of total infections. Only the United States and Brazil […]
The Fair & Lovely brand of beauty products, shown here for sale at a store in Mumbai, India, in 2013, is going to change its name. Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Fair & Lovely brand of beauty products, shown here for sale at a store in Mumbai, India, in 2013, is going to change its name. Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Generations of South Asians have grown up with grocery aisles full of Fair & Lovely skin-lightening products. The brand’s TV commercials feature Bollywood stars and equate pale, fair skin with […]
Last year, Indians received 72% of H-1B visas. Thousands who’d planned to immigrate to the U.S. this year must scrap or delay their plans. But some suggest the freeze may work to India’s advantage. (Image credit: Pawan Kumar/Reuters) Source link
Her father worked in the city and got injured. His daughter came to care for him and took him home via bike. Ivanka Trump is among her admirers. But some ask: Why this was her only option? (Image credit: BBC News Hindi) Source link