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Participants wear paper masks in the likeness of Amazon's Jeff Bezos as warehouse workers and delivery drivers stage a protest against the Seattle-based company demanding higher wages and better working conditions, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Amazon workers in India join Black Friday strike action for better wages and working conditions
Amazon staff in India have joined strike action calling for better wages. Around 200 warehouse workers and delivery drivers rallied in the capital New Delhi under a “Make Amazon Pay” banner to demand higher wages, better working conditions, and union rights.
 
Police detain a Congress party supporter during a protest against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Adani was indicted by U.S. prosecutors for bribery and fraud in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Shonal Ganguly)
India’s opposition protests against billionaire facing US bribery and fraud charges
Hundreds of supporters of India’s main opposition party have protested against billionaire Gautam Adani, who was recently indicted in the U.S. for alleged fraud and bribery, and accused the government of protecting the Indian coal magnate whose companies’ shares have plunged since the charges last w
 
A student directs traffic in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)
Students who ousted Hasina are helping lead Bangladesh, from the streets to the ministries
Within a week of unseating Bangladesh’s longest-serving prime minister, the students who drove out former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina were directing Dhaka’s traffic.
 
Hindu devotees pray at the Dhakeshwari National Temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Aug.11, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)
The violence in Bangladesh after Hasina’s ouster stirs fear within the country’s Hindu minority
Ever since Bangladesh’s prime minister was forced to step down and fled the country, her supporters and associates have faced retaliatory attacks.
 
A crew inspects the damage to a part of a departure terminal canopy at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport that collapsed in heavy pre-monsoon rains in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo)
Days after heatwave, intense rain causes roof collapse at New Delhi airport, killing 1 person
Part of a departure terminal canopy at New Delhi’s main airport has collapsed as monsoon rains lashed the Indian capital, killing one person and injuring six others.
 
A man drinks water as severe heat grips Lucknow, India, Saturday, May 18, 2024. Swathes of northwest India sweltered under scorching temperatures on Saturday, with the capital New Delhi under a severe weather alert as extreme temperatures strike parts of the country. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Parts of northern India scorched by extreme heat with New Delhi on high alert
Parts of northwest India are sweltering under scorching temperatures with the capital New Delhi under a severe weather alert as extreme temperatures strike parts of the country.
 
Exile Tibetans shout slogans to mark the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising in Lhasa, in New Delhi, India, Sunday, March 10, 2024. Hundreds of Tibetans in exile marched on the New Delhi streets on Sunday to commemorate the 65th Tibetan National Uprising Day against China to honor the Tibetan martyrs and express concern over the appalling situation in Tibet. (AP Photo/Shonal Ganguly)
Hundreds of Tibetans march on New Delhi streets asking China to leave Tibet on uprising anniversary
Hundreds of Tibetans in exile have held a protest march in New Delhi to commemorate the 65th Tibetan National Uprising Day against China.
 
Participants of the Delhi Queer Pride Parade carry a banner during the march in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. This annual event comes as India's top court refused to legalize same-sex marriages in an October ruling that disappointed campaigners for LGBTQ+ rights in the world's most populous country. (AP Photo/Shonal Ganguly)
India’s LGBTQ+ community holds pride march, raises concerns over country’s restrictive laws
More than 2,000 people have danced, sang and cheered in a gay pride parade in India’s capital, while also raising their concerns over India’s restrictive laws.
 
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.
 
Kuki tribal protestors shout slogans during a demonstration against deadly ethnic clashes in the country's northeastern state of Manipur, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, July, 22, 2023. Protests are being held across the country after a video showed a mob assaulting two women who were paraded naked. Thousands of people, mostly women, held a massive sit-in protest in India's violence-wracked northeastern state of Manipur state demanding immediate arrest of those involved in the harrowing assault. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Thousands protest mob assault of women who were paraded naked in remote Indian border state
Thousands of people, mostly women, have held a massive sit-in in India’s violence-wracked northeastern state of Manipur to demand the immediate arrest of anyone who took part in the May assault of two women who were paraded around naked and molested by a mob.
 
Calm returns after 30 die in India riots over guru verdict
Security forces are patrolling the streets of violence-wracked areas of a north Indian state where rampaging mobs left at least 30 people dead and more than 250 others injured, after a court declared a quasi-religious sect leader guilty of raping two of his followers.
 
Hope flows into Indian village in the form of clean water
Schoolchildren cheered as a gush of clean water flowed through gleaming taps connected to a newly installed water filtration plant in a dusty Indian village.
 
Techies aim to solve ancient Indian festival’s safety woes
Twelve years ago, dozens died in a stampede in the same festival. Halfway through this year’s event there have been no such incidents as the immense crowds wade into the temperate waters of Godavari River, in an ancient ritual seeking spiritual rebirth from Hindu gods. They pour trickles of water fr