PIYUSH NAGPAL

Doctors and paramedics protest against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor in Kolkata at a government hospital last week, as they gather in front of the Indian health minister's office, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Protests grow in India over the rape and killing of a doctor at a state-run hospital
Thousands of people, including doctors and paramedics, are marching through various Indian cities to protest the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital last week.
 
Waste pickers Salmaa and Usmaan Shekh, right, search for recyclable materials during a heat wave at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Shekh and his family are among millions of people who scratch out a living searching through India's waste — and climate change is making a hazardous job more dangerous than ever. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
For India’s garbage pickers, a miserable and dangerous job made worse by extreme heat
As many as 4 million people in India scratch out a living searching through landfills for anything they can sell. These waste pickers endure a miserable job that is growing more dangerous as climate change leads to rising heat.
 
An Indian Hindu holy man shows his finger marked with indelible ink after casting his vote during the fifth round of multi-phase national elections outside a polling station in Ayodhya, India, Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Modi’s Hindu nationalist politics face a test as India holds fifth stage of national election
Millions of Indians across 49 constituencies are casting ballots as the country’s six-week-long election enters its final stages.
 
Policemen detain a member of Aam Admi Party, or Common Man's Party, during a protest against the arrest of their party leader Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Indian police have detained dozens of opposition protesters and prevented them from marching to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence to demand the release of their leader and top elected official of New Delhi who was arrested last week in a liquor bribery case. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Indian police detain dozens of protesters demanding release of top opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal
Indian police have detained dozens of opposition protesters to stop them from marching to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence to demand the release of their leader and top elected official of New Delhi arrested last week in a bribery case.
 
Workers peel shrimp in a tin-roofed processing shed in the hamlet of the Tallarevu, in Kakinada district, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. Indian shrimp is regularly sold in major U.S. stores such as Walmart, Target and Sam’s Club and supermarkets like Kroger, Safeway and Sprouts. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
Highlights from the AP’s reporting on the shrimp industry in India
One reason for that is the low cost for consumers of shrimp from India.
 
A worker peels shrimp in a tin-roofed processing shed in the hamlet of Tallarevu, in Kakinada district, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. Dr. Sushmitha Meda, a dermatologist at a nearby government hospital in the city of Kakinada, said she treats four to five shrimp peelers every day for frostbite and infection. It’s a preventable problem, she said. Cotton gloves covered with latex gloves can protect peelers’ hands, but few can afford a $3 box of gloves. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
AP finds grueling conditions in Indian shrimp industry that report calls ‘dangerous and abusive’
India is the top supplier of shrimp to the U.S., with Indian shrimp stocked in freezers at most of the nation’s biggest grocery store and restaurant chains.
 
A cyclist rides amid smog in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Masks are back on the streets as residents of the capital city grapple with the annual surge in air pollution that has engulfed the region. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Masks are back, construction banned and schools shut as toxic air engulfs New Delhi
Masks are back on the New Delhi streets as residents grapple with the annual surge in air pollution that has engulfed the Indian capital region.
 
Traffic moves on a road enveloped by fog and smog in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Authorities on Friday shut primary schools and banned polluting vehicles and construction activity to control the worst haze and smog this season, causing respiratory infections among people and enveloping monuments and high-rise buildings in and around New Delhi. (AP Photo)
New Delhi shuts schools and limits construction work to reduce severe air pollution
New Delhi’s government has shut primary schools and banned polluting vehicles and construction work in an attempt to reduce the worst haze and smog of the season.
 
Migrant labourers climb over a wall, newly painted in preparation of the G20 summit, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. As India gears up to host the annual gathering of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations, the capital city is undergoing an elaborate makeover. But for many street vendors and shantytowns dotting the city, the beautification of New Delhi has meant displacement and loss of livelihoods. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
New Delhi got a makeover for the G20 summit. The city’s poor say they were simply erased
New Delhi has gotten a makeover ahead of this week’s summit of the Group of 20 nations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government hopes the effort, with a $120 million price tag, will help showcase the world’s most populous nation’s cultural prowess and strengthen its position on the global stage.
 
Rekha Devi, a 30-year-old farm worker, washes her face next to her temporary shelter on an under construction overpass after her family evacuated the flooded banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Devi, her husband and their children fled as July's record monsoon rains triggered flooding that killed more than 100 people in northern India, displaced thousands and inundated large parts of the capital city. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
As G20 leaders prepare to meet in recently flooded New Delhi, climate policy issues are unresolved
Despite extreme weather events battering India and the rest of the world in the last few months, climate ministers of the G20 nations ended their last meeting for the year without resolving major disagreement on climate policies.
 
Relatives of Abhishek, who was killed in communal clashes, wait for his body outside a hospital in Nuh in Haryana state, India, Tuesday, Aug., 1, 2023. Deadly clashes between Hindus and Muslims began in the area Monday afternoon during a religious procession by a Hindu nationalist group forcing Indian authorities to impose a curfew and suspend Internet services. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
India’s northern Haryana state tense after 5 killed in communal clashes between Hindus and Muslims
Indian authorities have imposed a curfew, suspended internet service and deployed thousands of paramilitary forces to parts of northern Haryana state after deadly communal clashes.
 
Jitendra Kumar, a paramedic checks the oxygen level of his patient who is suffering from a heat stroke after carrying him in an ambulance from his home in village Mirchwara, 24 kilometers (14.91 miles) from Banpur in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, June 17, 2023. Ambulance drivers and other healthcare workers in rural India are the first line of care for those affected by extreme heat. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
In rural India, summer’s heat can be deadly. Ambulance crews see the toll up close
Extreme heat is fast becoming a serious public health crisis in India, with more than 150 people dying during a severe heat wave that blasted the country earlier in June.