Niha Masih The Washington Post

When Sadaf Jafar headed out with hundreds of others last Thursday to join a protest against the contentious new citizenship law, she told her children she would be home that evening. She never made it back.

Indian authorities on Thursday clamped down on demonstrations against a contentious citizenship law, invoking a measure to prohibit public gatherings in two states and parts of the nation's capital, together home to more than 260 million people.

Fresh protests swept India on Monday, a day after police entered a university campus in the nation's capital and injured hundreds of students who were registering their opposition to the country's controversial new citizenship law.

India's first attempt to land on the moon went awry early Saturday when the space agency lost contact with the lander as it neared the lunar site, minutes before touchdown was expected.

Chandrayaan-2, whose launch is set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, will attempt to soft-land onto the moon's uncharted south pole region in the first week of September.

When a rocket blasts off from an island in the Bay of Bengal in the coming days, it will carry not only a moon rover but a nation's growing ambitions in space. On Monday, India will embark on its most complex space odyssey to date with the launch of its second lunar mission.

An extremely powerful cyclone roared ashore Friday morning in eastern India, bringing pounding rain, giant waves and wind speeds of up to 130 miles per hour, as tens of millions of people in the coastal state of Odisha sought shelter from the storm.

In the fading afternoon light, Gammar Bam glanced down nervously at a fast-flowing river in a corner of northeastern India. His team had already driven eight hours on one-lane mountainous roads and shaky bridges. Now they were trekking on a slippery path hugging a cliff. For Mr Bam and his team of polling officers, that meant a four-day journey of ...

Nearly 900 million Indians are eligible to vote in national elections that start Thursday, an exercise so big that it will take six weeks to complete.

He parachuted out over enemy territory. Fired in the air to keep back angry locals. Jumped into a pond and then destroyed documents by eating them.

Late one night in the fall, about 200 female students in Bhopal, a city in central India, held a rare demonstration on their college's basketball court. Their very presence there was an act of protest: Women were not allowed to be outside their dormitories after dark, just one of many restrictions on their movement.

For years, a Swedish YouTube star, Felix Kjellberg - better known as PewDiePie - has dominated the platform, running its most-subscribed channel and drawing tens of millions of devoted fans.

A daughter of India's most famous dynasty jumped into the political arena on Wednesday, shaking up the race to lead the world's largest democracy ahead of elections set for later in the spring.

High in the Himalayas, Sikkim is one of the tiniest states in India. But it is about to embark on an experiment of global interest. Sikkim's ruling party has announced an ambitious plan to implement a universal basic income for every one of its 610,577 citizens.

When Sadaf Jafar headed out with hundreds of others last Thursday to join a protest against the contentious new citizenship law, she told her children she would be home that evening. She never made it back.

Indian authorities on Thursday clamped down on demonstrations against a contentious citizenship law, invoking a measure to prohibit public gatherings in two states and parts of the nation's capital, together home to more than 260 million people.

Fresh protests swept India on Monday, a day after police entered a university campus in the nation's capital and injured hundreds of students who were registering their opposition to the country's controversial new citizenship law.

India's first attempt to land on the moon went awry early Saturday when the space agency lost contact with the lander as it neared the lunar site, minutes before touchdown was expected.

Chandrayaan-2, whose launch is set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, will attempt to soft-land onto the moon's uncharted south pole region in the first week of September.

When a rocket blasts off from an island in the Bay of Bengal in the coming days, it will carry not only a moon rover but a nation's growing ambitions in space. On Monday, India will embark on its most complex space odyssey to date with the launch of its second lunar mission.

An extremely powerful cyclone roared ashore Friday morning in eastern India, bringing pounding rain, giant waves and wind speeds of up to 130 miles per hour, as tens of millions of people in the coastal state of Odisha sought shelter from the storm.

In the fading afternoon light, Gammar Bam glanced down nervously at a fast-flowing river in a corner of northeastern India. His team had already driven eight hours on one-lane mountainous roads and shaky bridges. Now they were trekking on a slippery path hugging a cliff. For Mr Bam and his team of polling officers, that meant a four-day journey of ...

Nearly 900 million Indians are eligible to vote in national elections that start Thursday, an exercise so big that it will take six weeks to complete.

He parachuted out over enemy territory. Fired in the air to keep back angry locals. Jumped into a pond and then destroyed documents by eating them.

Late one night in the fall, about 200 female students in Bhopal, a city in central India, held a rare demonstration on their college's basketball court. Their very presence there was an act of protest: Women were not allowed to be outside their dormitories after dark, just one of many restrictions on their movement.

For years, a Swedish YouTube star, Felix Kjellberg - better known as PewDiePie - has dominated the platform, running its most-subscribed channel and drawing tens of millions of devoted fans.

A daughter of India's most famous dynasty jumped into the political arena on Wednesday, shaking up the race to lead the world's largest democracy ahead of elections set for later in the spring.

High in the Himalayas, Sikkim is one of the tiniest states in India. But it is about to embark on an experiment of global interest. Sikkim's ruling party has announced an ambitious plan to implement a universal basic income for every one of its 610,577 citizens.