Pointing to my voice recorder on the table, he asked, meekly, “Is this necessary?” When his scam calls were already on YouTube, I countered, how did it matter that I was recording our conversation? “It just makes me nervous,” he said. Shahbaz told me his parents sent him to one of the city’s better schools […]
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Skoda’s Kushaq small crossover, which was previewed by the 2020 Vision In Concept, has paid a visit to Europe for testing purposes, ahead of its official unveiling set to take place in March. Aimed strictly at the Indian sub-continent, the vehicle looks similar to the Kamiq, albeit with a less bold face that includes the […]
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NEW DELHI — Thousands of protesting farmers poured into New Delhi on Tuesday as they used their tractors to pull barricades apart, prompting the police to fire tear gas and throwing into chaos an event that posed a direct challenge to the government. The farmers protesting India’s new farm laws had been expected to start […]
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NEW DELHI — Thousands of protesting farmers poured into the Indian capital of New Delhi on Tuesday as they used their tractors to pull barricades apart, prompting police to fire tear gas and marking a chaotic start to an event that had already been set to pose a direct challenge to the government. The farmers […]
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NEW DELHI — Indian and Chinese troops have clashed along their disputed Himalayan border, according to media and military reports on Monday, as Beijing quietly intensifies pressure against its southern neighbor with new incursions into territory claimed by both sides. Details about the latest skirmish remain foggy, and Indian officials played down the events. Indian […]
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Skoda’s lineup in India currently counts the Rapid, Octavia, Superb, Karoq and Kodiaq, and starting later this year, it will grow to include the Kushaq as well. The subcompact crossover is based on the MQB-A0-IN platform and features the brand’s new design language, with the easily-recognizable grille that’s flanked by slim headlights, a slightly arched […]
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Ever since India’s lockdown began in March, my life as a reporter has centered on covering how the coronavirus is affecting other people. I reported on at least a dozen cases where patients died after […]
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In desperate times, there are many ways to stretch vaccines and speed up inoculation campaigns, according to experts who have done it. Splitting doses, delaying second shots, injecting into the skin instead of the muscle and employing roving vaccination teams have all saved lives — when the circumstances were right. During cholera outbreaks in war […]
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ARPORA, India — The director of a big-budget Amazon web series has bowed to pressure from Hindu nationalists and cut several scenes that they had deemed offensive, demonstrating the sway of a powerful political movement that strives to reshape Indian society. Ali Abbas Zafar, the director of “Tandav,” a gritty political drama, made the edits […]
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It’s now fairly common for cities to install surveillance cameras with facial recognition capabilities to help catch criminals — Beijing and Moscow use them extensively. However, a city in northern India is taking a different approach: it wants to detect distress on women’s faces, so it can assist them when they’re attacked or threatened. Cops […]
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If you live in India and you’d like to own something a little more comfortable than a BMW 3-Series, but not quite as expensive as a 5-Series, you can opt for the extended wheelbase version of the former. Unlike in China though, India’s long-wheelbase 3-Series isn’t simply known as the 3-Series LWB, but rather the […]
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Listen and subscribe to “Sway”: Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher (How To Listen) At the inauguration on Wednesday, Kamala Harris became vice president — the nation’s first Black person, the first Asian person and the first woman to do so — and President Biden spoke of “a cry for racial justice some […]
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This global cultural battle will continue because the conditions of its eruption — insecurity, disappearing jobs, resentment in societies made still more unequal by the impact of Covid-19 — persist from France to Latin America. The Trump phenomenon also persists. His tens of millions of supporters are not about to vanish. “Were the events at […]
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NEW DELHI — Even by the standards of a sport that tests endurance with matches that can go on for five days, India’s cricket team had to draw deep to complete a long tour of Australia that had been complicated by the coronavirus pandemic. One player missed the funeral of his father to stay on […]
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After user backlash, governments are also joining in criticizing WhatsApp’s controversial privacy policy change. Today, the Indian government asked the app to withdraw its new policy. In a letter addressed to the WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said that these “unilateral changes are not fair and acceptable.” This comes a day […]
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NEW DELHI — Bollywood once again has fallen into the cross hairs of India’s Hindu nationalist ruling party — and major Western streaming services like Amazon and Netflix increasingly find themselves caught in the middle. Two separate criminal complaints were filed with the police over the weekend against the makers of “Tandav,” a splashy new […]
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PUNE, India — India on Friday was preparing to launch one of the most ambitious and complex nationwide campaigns in its history: the rollout of coronavirus vaccines to 1.3 billion people, an undertaking that will stretch from the perilous reaches of the Himalayas to the dense jungles of the country’s southern tip. The toughest part […]
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NEW DELHI — Despite rain and cold, tens of thousands of angry farmers have been camping on the borders of New Delhi for six weeks. In late September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government hurriedly passed a set of new farm laws in the Indian Parliament. Soon after, protests started in the northern Indian states of […]
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After the loss of several lives and millions of rupees, Google India has finally removed hundreds of shady loan apps from Play Store in the country. These loan apps, the majority of them with Chinese connections, gave out small to mid-sized loans to people, and then used harassment and threats to recover that money. The […]
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By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. COVID-19 has made hunger a reality for many in countries such as the U.S. and U.K., where food insecurity has been limited to the very poor. Food banks are stretched, as they […]
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While Telegram might be gaining a lot of users this year due to WhatsApp’s controversial privacy policy update, the app was already impressive growth in 2020 in India. According to analytics firm App Annie, Telegram’s monthly active users increased by 110% — in a 600 million internet user market —and made it the fastest growing […]
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It has happened, Tesla has registered an office in the southern city of Bengaluru in India. As per a filing in Registrar of Companies (RoC), the corporation is named Tesla India Motors and Energy Private Limited, and David Jon Feinstein, global senior director at Tesla, and Vaibhav Taneja, chief accounting officer at Tesla, are listed as part […]
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NEW DELHI — India’s highest court on Tuesday halted the implementation of new laws that would reshape farming in the country and that sparked huge protests outside the capital, New Delhi, in a setback to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Supreme Court said it was suspending the laws until a committee of […]
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SRINAGAR, India — Habib Wangnoo scanned the silvery lake from the deck of his vacant houseboat hotel, remembering when he helped Mick Jagger out of a narrow, flat-bottomed canoe during the rock star’s 1981 visit to Kashmir. Mr. Jagger spent most of the next two weeks on the boat’s upper deck, Mr. Wangnoo recalled with […]
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To the end of his life Dr. Mehta held himself responsible for Ved’s blindness, which had arisen amid circumstances that encapsulated the class-consciousness and learned subservience that India’s colonial history entailed. Though he had correctly identified his son’s meningitis, he let himself be persuaded of an incorrect, far less urgent, diagnosis by a ranking medical […]
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NEW DELHI — Under a rain-slick tarpaulin, half a dozen elderly women bake roti on a wood-fired griddle — flattening dough, flipping browned bread from dawn until the sun retreats into Delhi’s evening smoke. Anyone who walks in gets served rice and cooked vegetables and, to wash it down, a cumin-flavored yogurt drink. Across the […]
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Each thrives on an identical formula. We follow a group of impeccably attired women as they go about managing their families and social lives. There isn’t much plot, but there are copious tears and charged moments as rivalries flare and disparaging comments are made about the quality of wigs or cosmetic dermatology. And sometimes, in […]
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Skoda has officially announced that it will expand its SUV lineup with yet another model: the Kushaq. Previewed by the 2020 Vision In Concept, its name is derived from the Sanskrit word of ‘kushak’, which means ‘king’ or ‘emperor’. The Kushaq is aimed strictly at the Indian market and will sport a profile similar to […]
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Fiat Chrysler is injecting $250 million into its India unit in order to grow its presence locally, as well as to launch four new Jeep-branded SUVs over the next two years. The investment will result in the local manufacturing of a mid-size, three-row SUV, as well as the assembly of Jeep Wrangler and Cherokee models, […]
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HIMALAYAA Human HistoryBy Ed Douglas When I first came to India, I asked one of the most erudite politicians in the Indian government a question I had been scared to pose to anyone else but that seemed fundamental to understanding the region: Why does India have so many people? Geographically, it’s a third smaller than […]
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Plans to raze 14 of 18 dormitories designed by the architect Louis Kahn for the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad that set off an international outcry were rolled back on Friday. The school’s board of governors said in a letter Friday that in response to feedback it was “withdrawing the Expression of Interest” to […]
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