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U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington on Feb. 13, 2025.

WORLD / Politics

Feb 3, 2026

U.S. to cut tariffs on India to 18%, India agrees to end Russian oil purchases

Donald Trump announced the deal following a call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, noting that India would now buy oil from the U.S. and potentially Venezuela.

Newly-elected prime minister of Nepal's interim government, Sushila Karki, and other officials observe a moment of silence on Sunday to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in recent protests in Kathmandu.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Sep 14, 2025

Young activists who toppled Nepal’s government now picking new leaders

A Nepalese activist group used Discord and Instagram to mobilize deadly Gen Z–driven protests that toppled Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli.

Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard along a street in Srinagar on Sunday.

ASIA PACIFIC

May 11, 2025

Fragile ceasefire holds between India and Pakistan as Trump offers more help

The four days of fighting was the worst in nearly three decades, with dozens killed as missiles and drones pummeled military installations.

Local residents prepare to evacuate after Pakistani artillery shelling at the Lagama village in Uri, about 100 kilometers from Srinagar, on Friday.

ASIA PACIFIC

May 9, 2025

Pakistan launched multiple attacks along India’s western border, India says

Pakistan’s armed forces launched “multiple attacks” using drones and other munitions along India’s western border on Thursday night and early Friday.

A farm laborer stands next to sacks filled with harvested potatoes at a field in Subhri village, in the northern state of Haryana, India, on Saturday.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Feb 3, 2025

In first budget of third term, Modi puts short-term tax cuts above deep reforms

But the year’s top economic policy event passed up a chance to go big on reforms needed to reignite rapid growth — once the envy of the world at more than 8%.

A street in Zakir Nagar, a Muslim neighborhood in New Delhi, last month.

ASIA PACIFIC / Society

Oct 19, 2024

In Modi’s Delhi, Indian Muslims segregate to seek security

There is no official data on segregation in India, but it appears to be increasing among Muslims in recent years due to rising Islamophobia.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media after his meeting with President Droupadi Murmu, to stake claim to form the new government at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi on June 7.

ASIA PACIFIC / Politics

Jul 24, 2024

India’s budget reflects new power realities of Modi’s fickle coalition

Modi has been forced to rely on allies to run a government for the first time in his career.

Employees assemble an electric transformer on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, on March 28.

WORLD

Jun 3, 2024

Modi plans post-election reforms to rival Chinese manufacturing

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans a raft of business-friendly measures if he wins a third term this week, including pushing through regulations making it easier to hire and fire workers, according to two government officials familiar with the matter.

The rural economy has been hurt by a drop in the output of some key crops, such as wheat, in the past three years due to a rise in temperatures, patchy monsoon rains and falling reservoir levels.

ASIA PACIFIC

Feb 1, 2024

World-beating growth? Not for India’s rural majority

For many in rural India, which is home to 60% of its 1.4 billion people, the country’s so-called spectacular economic growth is nowhere in sight.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hand with Tesla chief executive Elon Musk in New York on June 20, 2023.

BUSINESS

Aug 3, 2023

In India, it’s advantage Tesla as Chinese automakers face heat

Tesla has had a red-carpet welcome from India for its proposal to invest in the country, while China has been stopped cold.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC

Feb 24, 2023

India urges focus on ‘most vulnerable’ at G20 meeting but avoids mention of war

The Indian leader made no direct mention of the Ukraine war in his address to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Bengaluru.

Japan Times

BUSINESS

Jul 8, 2022

How an Indian cement maker bought Russian coal using yuan

The move shows one way in which Russia could continue to sell commodities abroad without settling in U.S. dollars despite restrictions aimed at freezing it out of financial markets.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC

Dec 22, 2019

From housewives to hijab-clad students, women take center stage in Indian protests

As a crowd of protesters swelled around them under the watchful eyes of dozens of policemen in riot gear, a cluster of young female students in burqas stood outside their university in New Delhi shouting anti-government slogans.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The Terasaka Rice Terraces are seen with Mount Buko in the background.

What Yokoze can teach Japan about rural revival

By Alex K.T. Martin

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