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On the heels of finalizing its updated climate targets, the Indian government took another step toward their climate goals by passing amendments to a 21-year-old energy conservation bill, making it easier to put a price on carbon emissions on polluting industries and encouraging the use of non-fossil fuel sources to generate power across the country

The Indian government took another step toward its climate goals by passing a conservation bill through parliament’s lower house, which makes it easier to put a price on carbon emissions and encourages the use of non-fossil fuel sources to generate power across the country.

The government has abandoned a personal data protection bill and there are concerns it may introduce more authoritarian rules on privacy.

Police have detained dozens of people in Indian-controlled Kashmir as they dispersed Shiite Muslims who attempted to participate in processions marking the Muslim month of Muharram

Police on Sunday detained dozens of people in Indian-controlled Kashmir as they dispersed Shiite Muslims who attempted to participate in processions marking the Muslim month of Muharram. Scores of Muslims defied severe security restrictions in parts of the main city of Srinagar and took to streets chanting religious slogans. The restrictions include a ban on the Shiite religious procession.

India's new SSLV rocket is scheduled to launch for the first time on Saturday night (Aug. 6), and you can watch the debut live.

On Friday's show: An international relations expert explains what it might take for the United States to arrange for Griner's release after her guilty verdict and sentencing. Then, we discuss how a recent ruling limiting the EPA's power might affect Houston. And Indian composer and violinist L. Subramaniam talks about his concert in Houston this weekend celebrating 75 years of Indian independence.

Rania is serving up some of the most original Indian food in D.C., thanks to chef Chetan Shetty.

A 35-year-old woman has vowed to preserve her virginity until she gets married. She says people should not give into societal pressure to have sex.

Burjeel Holdings on Thursday reported record full-year 2021 revenue of 3.35 billion UAE dirhams ($912m) and a profit for the year of 234 million UAE dirhams.

Imports are up sharply and come on top of record shipments to India of discounted Russian oil.

Nine months after India announced its target of “net zero” emissions by 2070 at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, the country’s federal cabinet finally approved a new climate plan on Wednesday

Nine months after India announced its target of “net zero” emissions by 2070 at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, the country’s federal cabinet finally approved a new climate plan on Wednesday.

A Ugandan Asian who settled in Leicester recalls the racism she experienced in the city in the 1970s.

Advice columnist and mental health professional Sahaj Kaur Kohli is ready to help you navigate mental health, identity and relationships.

India has announced a $100 million line of credit to the Maldives to support development projects.

President Joe Biden confirms that a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, declaring “justice has been delivered.” “This terrorist leader is no more,” Biden said from the White House's balcony. (Aug. 1)

Dhaka is suffering from growing pains but it can use an IMF bailout to further clean up its economy.

Dig into one of Chef Biju’s favorite summer salads filled with seasonal fruits and veggies

It will be a while before India's and China's new carriers reach their full potential, but the flattops are major milestones for both countries.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks exclusively with CBS News senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy about his plan to spend tens of billions of dollars of the state's surplus to battle climate change.

The latest victims were farmers who took shelter under trees during a drenching monsoon. India's monsoon season lasts from June through September.

Indian police say that seven people, mostly farmers, have been killed by lightning in a village in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state, bringing the death toll by lightning to 49 people in the state this week

Pakistan and Bangladesh are running to the IMF. But New Delhi has a not-so-secret weapon.

As the battery supply chain gets concentrated in the hands of a few countries, a forgotten metal could help emerging and developing markets avoid getting left behind

Two-time Olympic medalist Brittney Griner is standing trial on drug charges. (July 26)

India's 5G auction kicks off Tuesday and four local companies will be in the race to bid for the country's first 5G spectrum ahead of a planned rollout in 2023.

Western firms are still sending a steady flow of outsourcing deals, but the profitability of software exporters like Infosys is witnessing a sharp decline.

India — the world's fifth largest economy with more than $3 trillion in GDP — has managed to double its tax base since the introduction of GST in July 2017.

A woman who hails from a minority ethnic community has been chosen as India’s new president.

A woman who hails from a minority ethnic community was chosen Thursday as India’s new president, a largely ceremonial position. Droupadi Murmu, a leader from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, was elected by the Indian Parliament and state legislatures in voting held Monday, making her the first president from one of the country’s tribes and the second-ever woman to hold the position. Murmu, 64, who hails from the eastern state of Odisha and was governor of Jharkhand state from 2015-2021, is a member of the Santal ethnic minority, one of India’s largest tribal groups.

Indian Crepe. Co., a virtual restaurant, used Western references to rename many traditional dishes.

India’s film industry is one of the most vast and varied in the world.

Global private equity is sweeping in to take advantage of the surging demographics of college prep.

A landmark deal between rich and poor countries was supposed to help end the pandemic. It has done nothing of the sort.

Since Boris Johnson resigned as Britain's prime minister, fellow Conservatives started jockeying to replace him. The winner could make history.

If elected, Draupadi Murmu will become the first tribal president and the second-ever female president of India.

The exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday arrived in India's remote Ladakh region bordering China where he received a rousing reception. Thousands of people lined both sides of the road outside the airport in the cold desert region’s Leh town to welcome the Dalai Lama, who is touring outside his base in the northern Indian city of Dharmsala for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

Indian investigators have raided an Indian subsidiary of Chinese smartphone maker Oppo, accusing it of evading customs duties totaling $551 million.

Indian investigators have raided an Indian subsidiary of Chinese smartphone maker Oppo, accusing it of evading customs duties totaling 43.9 billion rupees ($551 million), the government said Wednesday. The Enforcement Directorate, India's financial crime investigation agency, said it sent a notice to the company seeking recovery of the money. Oppo India, a subsidiary of China’s Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp. Ltd, is the second Chinese mobile company to be searched by the directorate this month.

The sham Indian league's YouTube stream used digital crowd noise and commentary by a voice resembling that of a sports personality, police say.

The world’s hottest gadget is no longer the key talking point among governments looking to create jobs and build products.

What police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh expected to be a normal traffic stop turned out to be a bewildering scene after 27 passengers were discovered to have ridden a single auto-rickshaw. Traffic police reportedly began pursuing the rickshaw after seeing it speed past a local police station. After pulling over the three-wheeler, the authorities instructed its passengers to exit it.

Officials mounted a mass rescue effort as 40 others were missing and 15,000 evacuated from the area.

Emergency workers have rescued thousands of pilgrims after flash floods triggered by sudden rains swept through their makeshift camps during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to an icy Himalayan cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir

Emergency workers have rescued thousands of pilgrims after flash floods triggered by sudden rains swept through their makeshift camps during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to an icy Himalayan cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Emergency workers rescued thousands of pilgrims after flash floods triggered by sudden rains swept through their makeshift camps during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to an icy Himalayan cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Saturday. Authorities suspended the pilgrimage for two days as rains continued to lash the region. Teams of rescuers from India’s military, paramilitary and police as well as disaster management officials combed through the slippery mountain tracks and used thermal imaging devices, sniffer dogs and through-the-wall radars to locate dozens of missing.

Native American tribal elders in Oklahoma delivered powerful testimony to federal officials about their experiences in government-backed Indian boarding schools.

He transformed “Indo-Pacific” from a catchphrase into an aspiration, defining a security and economic architecture to preserve free thought and free trade in the region and beyond.

At least eight people have died when sudden rains triggered flash floods during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to an icy Himalayan cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir

At least 13 people have died after sudden rains triggered flash floods during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to an icy Himalayan cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

A uniform levy on goods and services replaced a dizzyingly complex system. But the compromises required to make it happen have their own pitfalls.

A passenger bus has slid off a mountain road and fell into a deep gorge in northern India, killing 16 people, including schoolchildren

A Pulitzer Prize-winning Kashmir photojournalist says she has been stopped by Indian immigration authorities from flying to Paris without giving any reason

In Phoenix, temperatures are rising at an alarming rate due to climate change — but Mayor Kate Gallego has a plan to cool things down. As the summer months bring deadly temperatures, the newly created Office of Heat Response and Mitigation — the first of its kind in the U.S. — has been charged with easing the burden for Phoenix’s most at-risk residents and developing plans to ensure America’s hottest city remains livable.

The country’s military can serve as a tool to project power or a scheme to generate employment, but it’s going to be very difficult to do both.

The holiday rush is underway — with nearly 48 million Americans hitting the road or heading to airports for the Fourth of July weekend. Airlines and travelers are preparing for another hectic holiday weekend amid a national pilot shortage. Errol Barnett has the latest.

Thousands of Hindu devotees have begun an annual pilgrimage to an icy cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir amid massive security in the Muslim-majority region

An Indian rocket will launch three satellites on Thursday morning (June 30), and you can watch the action live.

Police in India’s capital have arrested a Muslim journalist for allegedly hurting religious sentiments.

India has rushed emergency relief assistance and a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.

India has sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.

Scientists say climate change is a factor behind the devastating floods in Bangladesh and northeastern India.

Massive flooding and mudslides in northeastern India’s Assam state have claimed eight more lives, taking the death toll to 62 from weeks of heavy rains that caused one of Asia’s largest rivers to overflow.

Protests are erupting in many Indian cities against the demolition of homes and businesses belonging to Muslims in what critics call a growing pattern of “bulldozer justice” aimed at punishing activists from the minority group.

India is facing major diplomatic outrage from Muslim-majority countries after two top officials in the governing Hindu nationalist party made derogatory references to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.

Indian celebrities and Bollywood stars are in Abu Dhabi this weekend for the International Indian Film Academy awards.

Indian police are investigating the killing of a popular Punjabi rapper, who blended hip-hop, rap and folk music, a day after he was fatally shot.

The intense heat wave sweeping through South Asia was made more likely due to climate change and is a sign of things to come.

Officials say rescuers have found the bodies of eight more workers in Indian-controlled Kashmir, taking the death toll to nine after part of a tunnel collapsed in the Himalayan region.

India says it will keep a window open to export wheat to food-deficit countries at the government level despite an export ban announced on Friday.

India has banned exports of wheat effective immediately.

A retired Indian couple is suing their son and daughter-in-law, demanding that they produce a grandchild within a year or pay them 50 million rupees ($675,000).

Muslims across India have marked Eid al-Fitr by offering prayers outside mosques.

Indian authorities have seized $725 million from Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi, accusing it of breaking the country’s foreign exchange laws by making illegal remittances abroad.

India is in the throes of a record-shattering heat wave that is stunting wheat production.

A seemingly divided Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over Oklahoma’s authority to prosecute some crimes on Native American lands, following a 2020 high court decision.

India’s hardline Hindu nationalists have long espoused an anti-Muslim stance, but attacks against the minority community have recently occurred more frequently.

President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are set to speak virtually on Monday.

India and Australia’s trade ministers say a shared security partnership with the United States and Japan has helped them strike a trade deal that Australia hopes will reduce its dependence on exports to China.

India’s renewable energy push will be far from easy.

Japan says it will invest $42 billion in India over the next five years in a deal that is expected to boost bilateral trade.

India is buying discounted Russian oil, allowing it to increase its energy supplies while Russia looks to cut deals to boost its beleaguered economy.

An Indian official says state-run Indian Oil Corp. bought 3 million barrels of crude oil from Russia earlier this week to secure its energy needs, resisting Western pressure to avoid such purchases.

Muslim students in a southern Indian state have found themselves at the center of a debate over hijab bans in schools.

A court in a southern Indian state has upheld the ban on wearing hijab in schools and colleges, saying the Muslim headscarf is not an essential religious practice of Islam.

India is bracing for a disruption in Russian arms supplies following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tightrope walk between Moscow and Washington could become more difficult due to a border standoff with China.

One person has been killed and more than 20 others injured in Indian-controlled Kashmir when an assailant lobbed a grenade at a busy market in the region's main city.

India has yet to submit its targets for cutting greenhouse emissions to the U.

The Olympics have said goodbye to Asia after a star-crossed run, and it’s unclear when they’ll be back after the continent hosted four of the last eight Games.

A court in India has sentenced to death 38 people for a series of bomb blasts in 2008 that left more than 50 dead in Gujarat state, which has a history of violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims.

The use of rapid home tests has surged in India on the back of omicron cases, which have recently begun to decline.

Pakistan is allowing nuclear rival India to deliver tons of wheat to ease food shortages in Afghanistan.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party is touting Hindu-first politics and big-ticket construction projects to woo voters in the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh.

Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir say they arrested a prominent journalist on accusations of publishing “anti-national content,” in a widening crackdown against media in the disputed region.

India won’t be sending its top diplomat in Beijing to the Winter Olympics after a Chinese soldier wounded in a deadly border clash between the countries carried the symbolic torch.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has included hefty spending on infrastructure projects in its annual budget, looking to spur growth and improve its popularity just ahead of key state elections.

India’s economy is projected to grow 8% to 8.5% in the financial year beginning April 1, signaling a strong recovery after it was slammed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Indian health officials say there are signs of COVID-19 infections plateauing in some parts of the country but cautioned that cases are still surging in other states, linked to a new, stealthier version of the omicron variant.

Thousands of people braved a morning chill on a ceremonial boulevard in India's capital to watch a display of the country's military power and cultural diversity, but the colorful annual Republic Day spectacle was curtailed amid COVID-19.