India is protesting what it calls an incursion by some 30 Chinese troops from across the Line of Control in the Himalayas, while Tibetans charge stepped up repression.
In a landmark ruling, India’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal to allow Vedanta Resources to mine the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa state, recognizing the rights of the local tribal people.
A new pipeline that would link Iran to China via Pakistan, bypassing the strategic Strait of Hormuz, would pass through the insurgent regions of Baluchistan, Kashmir and Xinjiang.
A Kashmiri militant who received the death penalty for the 2001 attack on India's parliament was executed after India's president turned down his plea for clemency.
Authorities in India say that the Naxalite guerillas, following a series of reversals, have taken refuge in the northeast, where they are trading opium for guns from Burma.
The deadly gang-rape in Delhi has sparked outrage across India—but it remains to be seen if protests will address the institutionalized use of rape to enforce the caste system.
The only surviving shooter in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks was executed at a prison in India after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected the gunman’s clemency appeal.
Buddhists in Burma and Sri Lanka held anti-Muslim protests after Muslim rioters in Bangladesh torched Buddhist temples in response to a Facebook post denigrating the Koran.
A Bharat Bandh—all-India general strike—called to protest neoliberal economic measures shut down much of the country, supported by Hindu nationalist and Marxist parties alike.
A months-long civil disobedience campaign against the Koodankulam nuclear plant in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state turned violent as police opened fire on protesters.
An court in Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city, convicted 32 individuals for their roles in the deaths of 95 people during the 2002 anti-Muslim pogroms in the northwest Indian state.
In his inaugural speech, India’s new president, Pranab Mukherjee, called the fight against terrorism the “fourth world war,” and portrayed his own country as a frontline state.
