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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves as he boards his plane at Melbourne Airport on July 10.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 6, 2026
India PM Modi turns to Instagram to woo voters after Gen Z protest
The pivot to youth-focused social media follows protests last month that led to the resignation of the education minister after tens of thousands ?took to the streets.
Demonstrators carry the Indian national flag shouting slogans during a protest march in Patna on July 22.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 4, 2026
Modi¡¯s party loses key India by-election in wake of protests
Prashant Kishor, in his first election as founder of the Jan Suraaj Party, defeated BJP candidate Neeraj Kumar, winning the Bankipur assembly seat by over 19,000 votes.
Supporters of India's Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) celebrate after India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned following days of protests, in New Delhi on July 25.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 3, 2026
Leaked exams and dashed dreams: Why India¡¯s ¡®Cockroach¡¯ youth turned on Modi
The complaints youths have against Narendra Modi¡¯s government include widening economic inequality, high youth unemployment and an erosion of free speech rights.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi¡¯s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has strengthened its grip on power by manipulating the electoral process itself.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 3, 2026
Modi is rigging Indian democracy
The result of voter purging is an electoral system increasingly designed to favor India¡¯s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
A crowd of people gather at a Cockroach Janta Party protest at the New Delhi airport on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 8, 2026
India¡¯s ¡®cockroach¡¯ party protests against education minister
Hundreds joined in amid growing frustration among young Indians over a lack of jobs and recurring controversies in the education system.
India¡¯s PM Narendra Modi waves to supporters at BJP headquarters in New Delhi on May 4, the same day he declared victory in West Bengal, a state his party had never ruled.
COMMENTARY
May 13, 2026
Modi¡¯s India is looking like a one-party state
Such a blatant abrogation of individual voting rights is a first in the Indian republic¡¯s 76-year history.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters, in New Delhi, on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 5, 2026
India¡¯s Modi celebrates ¡®record¡¯ win in opposition-held West Bengal
The results should put the Indian prime minister on a stronger footing ahead of a general election in 2029.
A family walks past the Akshardham temple, shrouded in heavy smog and air pollution, in New Delhi on Dec. 19.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 2, 2026
Delhi¡¯s worst air in years fuels anger in test for Modi¡¯s party
In November and December, when pollution in New Delhi typically peaks, the air quality index was above 300 on 88% of days, the highest percentage since at least 2017.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) arrives at the airport in Imphal, in the northeastern state of Manipur, on Saturday. He made his first visit to troubled state since more than 250 people were killed in ethnic clashes there two years ago.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 17, 2025
Modi fends off succession talk in India despite numerous setbacks
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrates his 75th birthday, his party¡¯s unofficial retirement age, his grip on India appears more secure than ever.
Indian National Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi addresses the media in front of a screen showing India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) and Home Minister Amit Shah at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Aug. 7, ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the Indian state of Bihar.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 26, 2025
India¡¯s election commission faces claim of vote-rigging ahead of state poll
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said his party lost dozens of seats in the 2024 parliamentary elections as voter rolls were manipulated to favor the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi flashes a victory sign as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the party's win in the Delhi legislative assembly election in New Delhi on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 11, 2025
Anti-Muslim hate speech surged in India¡¯s election year, led by Modi
At rallies Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to Muslims as ¡°infiltrators¡± and claimed the main opposition party would redistribute the nation¡¯s wealth to them if it won.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) is being greeted by party members after he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters to celebrate the party's win in the Delhi legislative assembly election in New Delhi on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 9, 2025
Indian PM¡¯s party celebrates landslide win in New Delhi
Modi¡¯s BJP secured a landslide victory in Delhi, unseating Arvind Kejriwal and reclaiming power from AAP in the capital after 25 years.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) and Amit Shah, minister of home affairs
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2024
Top India minister authorized crimes in Canada, senior official says
India has rejected Canada¡¯s allegations as ¡°preposterous.¡±
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.
Omar Abdullah (center), leader of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference party, arrives to address the media outside his residence in Srinagar on Tuesday, after his election win in Indian-administered Kashmir.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 9, 2024
Indian Kashmir elects first regional government in a decade
Voters backed opposition parties to lead the Muslim-majority territory¡¯s regional assembly in the first local elections since 2014.
A woman shows her ink-marked finger after casting her vote at a polling station during the first phase of the assembly election in south Kashmir's town of Bijbehara, India, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 18, 2024
Modi faces new test in Kashmir after bruising election battle
Elections will also take place over the next five months in two opposition-ruled states, Jharkhand and Delhi.
Rakesh Tomar (right), an activist and founder of Hindu right-wing group Rudra Sena, speaks to people in Dehradun, the capital of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, on Aug. 6.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 6, 2024
India¡¯s far-right Hindus seek to drive Muslims out of ¡®holy land¡¯
Much of the hatred last year was fueled by ¡°love-jihad¡± conspiracies, claiming predatory Muslim men wanted to seduce Hindu women to convert them.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media in New Delhi on June 7.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 1, 2024
India¡¯s state elections to test Modi after budget fails to aid swing voters
Despite talk of relief, the government has raised taxes on gains from retail investments, removed some real estate tax benefits and left income tax rates untouched.
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.
Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy speaks in New Delhi in 2020. Roy is currently facing prosecution in India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, an anti-terrorism law, for comments she made back in 2010 about Kashmir.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 12, 2024
The show trial of India¡¯s Arundhati Roy
Comments made by Roy, a Booker Prize-winning author, 14 years ago have put her in the crosshairs of the BJP, which is wielding an anti-terrorism law to punish her.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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