India's top court allows release on bail of New Delhi's chief minister after 6 months in jail

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Friday allowed the release on bail of Arvind Kejriwal, a prominent opposition leader and chief minister of New Delhi, who was arrested nearly six months ago ahead of national elections on charges of receiving bribes from a liquor distributor. ...

India's Modi visits Ukraine this week, after a recent trip to Moscow. Here's what it could mean

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a historic visit Friday to Ukraine, a month and a half after he traveled to Moscow to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin. Officials in India and Ukraine have...

India to hold first assembly elections in disputed Kashmir in 10 years

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India on Friday announced three-phased assembly elections in disputed Kashmir, the first in a decade and in a new political environment after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 stripped the Muslim-majority region of its semi-autonomy and downgraded it to a...

Protests grow in India over the rape and killing of a doctor at a state-run hospital

NEW DELHI (AP) — Thousands of people marched through various Indian cities Friday to protest the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a government hospital, demanding justice and better security at medical campuses and hospitals. Demonstrators held signs calling for...

India's Modi voices concern over unrest in neighboring Bangladesh and attacks on Hindus there

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed concern over the unrest that led to a change of government in neighboring Bangladesh and the attacks on Hindus and other minorities there. Modi addressed his nation from New Delhi’s 17th-century Mughal-era...

India's Vinesh Phogat disqualified from Olympic wrestling after making the final. What happens next?

PARIS (AP) — India women's wrestler Vinesh Phogat has been disqualified from the 50-kilogram Olympic wrestling final after failing to make weight Wednesday, creating a ripple effect on the medal matches and resulting in some forced adjustments by organizers. Phogat defeated...

Police say the death toll has risen to 151 as rescuers search for more people buried by landslides in southern India

Death toll rises to 49 in landslides in southern India with the full scope of disaster still unknown

A state health minister says 24 bodies found after landslides in southern India as rescuers work their way through mud

India's moidam royal burial mounds are its latest World Heritage Site

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Charaideo Moidam royal burial complex and shrines, built by northeast India's Ahom dynasty, has been inscribed as a new World Heritage Site, the United Nations' cultural agency said on Friday. UNESCO experts, who are deliberating on a list of sites nominated...