More than a billion people celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights

Celebrants light rows of clay oil lamps outside their homes to symbolize the victory of light over darkness and knowledge ...
NPR

India's population passes 1.4 billion — and that's not a bad thing

India is now the world's most populous nation with 1.486 billion people, passing China in April according to projections by the United Nations. And it's still growing. The sheer numbers might bring to ...
PBS

India faces challenge of feeding its people as it becomes world’s most populous nation

As India takes on the title of the world’s most populous nation, a question that looms thanks to climate change is how to feed 1.4 billion people. Small-scale farming families say crops are withering ...
Time

India’s Manhunt for a Hardline Sikh Leader Leads to Internet Shutdowns and Global Protests

For six consecutive days, authorities in India have been on a nationwide hunt for Amritpal Singh, a hardline Sikh leader from the northwestern state of Punjab who rose to prominence for supporting the ...
Business Insider

Inside Varanasi, India's holy 'City of Death,' where people hoping to break the Hindu cycle of rebirth go to die

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Newsweek

Air India Plane Crash: Sole Survivor ‘Jumped Out of Emergency Exit’, 241 Other Passengers Dead

An Air India plane bound for London with 242 people onboard crashed as it took off in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad. The crash had just a sole survivor, British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh ...

A passenger bus in northern India catches fire and burns at least 20 people to death

Authorities in northern India say a suspected short circuit sparked a fire on a passenger bus and rapidly engulfed the ...