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How India's COVID-19 Crisis Is Becoming a Global Emergency

By Billy Perrigo

India Is Starting to Lift Kashmir Restrictions. What Happens Next?

By Naina Bajekal

The Indian Government Insists All Is Well in Kashmir. But As the Communications Shutdown Continues, Its Citizens Are Struggling to Reach the Outside World

By Shahnaz Bashir

India Has Taken Kashmir, But Winning the Hearts and Minds of Kashmiris Will be Harder

By Naina Bajekal
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Life Inside Kashmir During the Shutdown

Fahad Shah is a Kashmiri journalist and the founder and editor of The Kashmir Walla, a weekly newspaper. He filed the piece below during the ongoing communications blackout in the Kashmir Valley. He can be...

By Fahad Shah / Srinagar, Kashmir

I Was in Kashmir When India Seized Control. This Is What I Saw

On Monday, the Indian government announced that Kashmir’s constitutionally-mandated autonomy would be revoked and political rule imposed from Delhi. This northern territory, claimed by both India and Pakistan and ruled in part by each, had...

By Sanna Wani

What India's Plan to Revoke Article 370 Means for Kashmir

The Indian government on Monday announced plans to divide up the contested Himalayan region of Kashmir and change the constitutional settlement guaranteeing its semi-autonomous status, provoking uproar in Parliament and fears of an imminent clash...

By Billy Perrigo

At a Time of Rising India-Pakistan Tensions, Hotel Mumbai Has a Powerful Message

Hotel Mumbai, the thriller recounting the siege of the Taj Hotel by terrorists in 2008, offers a dramatic story as well as a foreign policy lesson. The film opens with a scene of young men...

By Alyssa Ayres

From Suicide Bombing to Captured Pilot: A Timeline of the Latest Crisis in Kashmir

Ever since the Partition of British India in 1947, Pakistan and India have been archrivals. The most disputed border between the two countries runs through the Himalayan territory of Kashmir, which both countries claim as...

By George Steer

Tensions Between India and Pakistan Are at Their Highest Point in Decades. Here's What to Know

With tit-for-tat airstrikes across a cease-fire line in late February, tensions between India and Pakistan rose to their highest point in years. The two nuclear-armed states have long clashed over the disputed Himalayan territory of...

By Billy Perrigo

South Asia Floods Caused 1,200 Deaths This Summer

More than 41 million people are affected in India, Bangladesh and Nepal

By Kevin Lui

Pakistan's Top Court Ousts Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

Sharif was ousted in a case stemming from the Panama Papers that detailed the offshore financial dealings of global public figures

By Nikhil Kumar

Read TIME's Exclusive Interview with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

Ghani met TIME on May 11, amid reports that the U.S. is considering sending additional troops to Afghanistan

By Nikhil Kumar

Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif Escapes Ouster in Corruption Ruling

The country's Supreme Court said there was insufficient evidence of corruption in a case that could have sparked the Prime Minister's ouster

By Nikhil Kumar

Modi Backs Radical Hindu Cleric for High-Profile Post

Yogi Adityanath's appointment has sparked concerns about religious tolerance and the status of minorities in the world's biggest democracy

By Nikhil Kumar

India's Leader Boosts Spending to Distract From Cash Crisis

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has raised spending on rural voters as a nationwide cash ban continues to hit jobs

By Nikhil Kumar / New Delhi

Here Are the Winners of the 2017 TIME India Awards

The second edition of the awards were held on Jan. 27

By TIME Staff

18 Finalists Named for the 2017 TIME India Awards

The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Jan. 27 at the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Partnership Summit in India's Andhra Pradesh state

By TIME Staff

'They Burned Everything'

Around 21,000 Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two months, as Burmese forces launched what one U.N official says is “getting very close to what we would all agree are crimes against humanity.” TIME reports from the Bangladesh border, where the full horror is only just emerging

By Nikhil Kumar / Teknaf, Bangladesh

TIME India Awards to Return in 2017

The competition will celebrate India's most exciting and innovative companies

By TIME Staff
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