Archana Chaudhary Bloomberg

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move to repeal farm reform laws in the face of persistent protests - his biggest policy U-turn since taking office - handed his opponents momentum ahead of crucial state elections.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will scrap three controversial farm laws that led to angry street protests over the last year, his biggest policy reversal since assuming power in 2014.

India is building the world's most extensive public digital infrastructure and is also working on incentives for companies to help set up semiconductor manufacturing units, Modi said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised delegates at the COP26 climate summit with a bold pledge: the world's third-biggest emitter will reach net-zero by 2070.

The shift also means that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is prioritizing "early harvest" pacts over comprehensive free trade agreements with partners

Even as the Taliban seek to assure the world they've become more moderate, most of Afghanistan's top female leaders who emerged over the past two decades have fled or are in hiding.

He co-founded the Taliban, helped it rebuild during two decades of war with the U.S. and then brokered a deal to get American troops out. Now, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar's job is about to get even harder.

After fighting each other for 20 years, the U.S. and Taliban are suddenly finding their interests aligned against a common enemy -- but their own bloody history stands in the way of eliminating the threat.

India will likely restart exporting Covid-19 vaccines next year once it has immunized its own adult population, the head of an influential government expert panel said.

India may record an unprecedented 600,000 new infections a day if the country fails to boost the pace of vaccination and avert a third coronavirus wave, according to a new study.

The latest swing of senior U.S. officials through Asia indicates the Biden administration is taking a humbler tone in the region than the former president, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken noting that every democracy was a "work in progress"

Global efforts to tackle climate change suffered another setback this week as India -- the world's third-biggest emitter -- failed to attend a key diplomatic gathering in London.

India's actual death count from Covid-19 could range between 1.3 million to a staggering 5 million, with even the most conservative estimate putting its tally at more than double the U.S., the highest recorded in the world so far.

Chanchal Devi's three children haven't tasted milk for almost a year.

China's military deployment along its disputed border with India and uncertainty over whether Beijing will fulfill its promise on troop reductions remains a challenge for relations between the two neighbors, Foreign minister S Jaishankar said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move to repeal farm reform laws in the face of persistent protests - his biggest policy U-turn since taking office - handed his opponents momentum ahead of crucial state elections.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will scrap three controversial farm laws that led to angry street protests over the last year, his biggest policy reversal since assuming power in 2014.

India is building the world's most extensive public digital infrastructure and is also working on incentives for companies to help set up semiconductor manufacturing units, Modi said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised delegates at the COP26 climate summit with a bold pledge: the world's third-biggest emitter will reach net-zero by 2070.

The shift also means that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is prioritizing "early harvest" pacts over comprehensive free trade agreements with partners

Even as the Taliban seek to assure the world they've become more moderate, most of Afghanistan's top female leaders who emerged over the past two decades have fled or are in hiding.

He co-founded the Taliban, helped it rebuild during two decades of war with the U.S. and then brokered a deal to get American troops out. Now, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar's job is about to get even harder.

After fighting each other for 20 years, the U.S. and Taliban are suddenly finding their interests aligned against a common enemy -- but their own bloody history stands in the way of eliminating the threat.

India will likely restart exporting Covid-19 vaccines next year once it has immunized its own adult population, the head of an influential government expert panel said.

India may record an unprecedented 600,000 new infections a day if the country fails to boost the pace of vaccination and avert a third coronavirus wave, according to a new study.

The latest swing of senior U.S. officials through Asia indicates the Biden administration is taking a humbler tone in the region than the former president, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken noting that every democracy was a "work in progress"

Global efforts to tackle climate change suffered another setback this week as India -- the world's third-biggest emitter -- failed to attend a key diplomatic gathering in London.

India's actual death count from Covid-19 could range between 1.3 million to a staggering 5 million, with even the most conservative estimate putting its tally at more than double the U.S., the highest recorded in the world so far.

Chanchal Devi's three children haven't tasted milk for almost a year.

China's military deployment along its disputed border with India and uncertainty over whether Beijing will fulfill its promise on troop reductions remains a challenge for relations between the two neighbors, Foreign minister S Jaishankar said.