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Data Show India's Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine Works — 2 Months After It Was Approved

India's homegrown COVID-19 vaccine has been controversial because the Indian government approved its use before clinical trials showed it works. Now data is finally out.

March 04, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Farmers, traders and customers weave through waist-high heaps of chili peppers, piles of ginger and mounds of carrots at a government-run wholesale market in western India.

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  • Global Health

India's Farmer Protests: Why Are They So Angry?

Demonstrations have been going on for months. Pop stars and climate activists have pledged support for the farmers. What sparked the movement is less glamorous: New rules for wholesale markets.

March 02, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Demonstrators in New Delhi shout slogans during a protest against the arrest of climate change activist Disha Ravi for allegedly helping to create a guide for anti-government farmers protests.

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  • Technology

Twitter In Standoff With India's Government Over Free Speech And Local Law

Twitter blocked hundreds of accounts the Indian government said were inciting violence. Then it unblocked them. Now it's stuck between Indian law and defending free speech.

February 18, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Shannon Bond
Indian journalist Priya Ramani (left) smiles as she leaves Patiala House Court in New Delhi in 2019. A New Delhi court on Wednesday acquitted Ramani of criminal defamation after she accused a former editor-turned-politician and junior external affairs minister, M.J. Akbar, of sexual harassment.

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  • Asia

Indian Woman Sued For Defamation Over #MeToo Complaint Against Her Boss Is Acquitted

Journalist Priya Ramani said her former editor had sexually harassed her, which he denied. "I feel vindicated on behalf of all the women who have ever spoken out against sexual harassment," she said.

February 17, 2021
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By:
  • Sushmita Pathak
The moment British actor and comedian Stephen Fry announced Ranjitsinh Disale as the winner of the $1 million Global Teacher prize.

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  • Education

Village Teacher Wins $1 Million Prize For World's Most 'Exceptional' Educator

Ranjitsinh Disale from India has been honored for finding ways to educate girls whose parents don't want them to come to school.

February 12, 2021
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By:
  • Sushmita Pathak
After a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in northern India on Sunday, people inspect a site near a damaged hydropower project at Reni village in Chamoli district in the country's Uttarakhand state.

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  • Asia

Scores Are Feared Dead In India After Himalayan Glacier Breaks Away

At least 140 people are missing after a hydroelectric dam near the glacier was swept away in a deluge of water, rock and debris. "It came very fast. There was no time to alert anyone," a witness said.

February 07, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
Sanitation worker Ramesh Solanki cleans the streets outside Palghar railway station. "I get up every morning at 5:30, and I see news about the vaccines on TV," he says. "I don't know about any controversies. I just know I'm proud to be part of this."

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  • Global Health

PHOTOS: The World's Biggest Vaccine Campaign Has Begun In India

They've got to reach urban dwellers as well as the two-thirds of Indians living in rural areas — and deal with vaccine hesitancy. Here's an early progress report.

February 06, 2021
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  • Lauren Frayer
A mural in New Delhi is part of public health messaging in India. The country has seen a dramatic decline in new cases since the fall, but researchers aren't sure why.

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  • Global Health

The Mystery Of India's Plummeting COVID-19 Cases

From 100,000 cases a day in September, India is now down to about 10,000 a day. Is it climate? Demographics? Mask mandates? Scientists are looking for answers.

February 01, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer

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  • Movies

What Indians Who've Known Poverty Think Of Netflix's 'The White Tiger' Movie

The movie, based on an award-winning novel, traces the unlikely journey of a poor villager in search of wealth. Does it ring true to those who know what it's like to be poor in India?

January 29, 2021
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By:
  • Kamala Thiagarajan
The U.S. Army Band plays "Pershing's Own" during the inauguration. Leaders, former officials and citizens expressed optimism with the dawn of the new U.S. administration.

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  • World

World Leaders Express Hope As Biden And Harris Are Sworn In

Leaders, former officials and citizens expressed optimism with the dawn of the new U.S. administration. China's state news agency tweeted: "Good Riddance, Donald Trump!"

January 20, 2021
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By:
  • Brakkton Booker
The inauguration kolam project is "not just a welcoming of a new administration. It's this idea that so many people came together with all of their stories," says Sowmya Somnath, one of the organizers.

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  • National

In D.C., A Traditional South Indian Welcome Awaits Joe Biden And Kamala Harris

With 1,800 pieces submitted by the public, volunteers are putting together a kolam, a traditional South Indian art form used as a sign of welcome.

January 20, 2021
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By:
  • Jeevika Verma
A medical worker inoculates a colleague with a COVID-19 vaccine at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Saturday.

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  • Asia

India Kicks Off A Massive COVID-19 Vaccination Drive

Cheers erupted in hospital wards across the country as a first group of nurses and sanitation workers rolled up their sleeves and got vaccinated. India aims to inoculate 300 million by July.

January 16, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
A box for COVID-19 vaccine storage in Aishbagh, an area in Lucknow, India, on Tuesday. India, a country of 1.4 billion people, is preparing to launch what will likely be the world's largest immunization drive to combat the coronavirus.

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  • Asia

India Prepares For Massive Vaccine Drive, But Some Fear It's Moving Too Quickly

Scientists, public health experts and opposition politicians have raised questions about one of the two vaccines the country of 1.4 billion people has authorized for emergency use against COVID-19.

January 13, 2021
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
A health worker gets ready to take samples from people to test for COVID-19 as another registers them at a marketplace last month in New Delhi.

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  • Asia

India Authorizes AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use

Almost 150,000 people in India have died from complications of COVID-19, behind only the U.S. and Brazil. India plans to begin inoculating its population of 1.4 billion this month.

January 02, 2021
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By:
  • Sushmita Pathak
Field hockey star Sarita Bhise (right) with her mother (far left) and maternal aunt, cleaning onions they've harvested on the family farm.

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  • Sports

Why A Field Hockey Champ In India Is Now Harvesting Onions And Herding Goats

Young female athletes benefited from an increase in government support in recent years. The pandemic has put an end to that.

December 31, 2020
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  • Pooja Bhula
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