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Mira Nair Finds a New Audience as Mother of Zohran Mamdani

By: Anupreeta Das —
“I feel like we have given him to the world,” the filmmaker said in a conversation with The New York Times. Her next movie is about one of India’s greatest artists.

Mira Nair, the acclaimed film director and mother of Zohran Mamdani, in Amritsar, India, in March.

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A Powerful El Niño Is Forming. If History Is a Guide, It Could Hit Hard.

By: Chico Harlan —
The biggest episodes of the past have altered the course of human events, according to researchers. An emerging one is drawing historic comparisons.

An illustration published in 1877 depicted a scene in southern India. Millions died from a famine that coincided with an El Niño that year.

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Federal Prosecutors Move to Drop Bribery Case Against Indian Magnate

By: Santul Nerkar and Alex Travelli —
Gautam Adani had been accused of lying to American investors about payoffs in India. The end of the case came as President Trump has signaled a transactional approach to justice.

Gautam Adani’s companies have powered India’s rise as a global economic power.

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Hundreds of Tourists on Yemeni Island Caught Up in Saudi-U.A.E. Rift

By: Ismaeel Naar —
Around 600 foreigners have been stranded on Socotra as clashes on mainland Yemen halted flights, turning the nature sanctuary and tourist spot into a geopolitical trap.

Tourists outside a hotel on the island of Socotra, Yemen, on Monday.

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Found: A Lost George Washington Battlefield

By: Jennifer Schuessler —
As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military veterans are helping archaeologists excavate the location.

Since 2021, military veterans have been helping archaeologists excavate near Fort Ligonier in western Pennsylvania. From left, James F. Cawley, Mike Strausner and Jeff Brock.

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India Strikes Pakistan After Kashmir Terrorist Attack: What We Know

By: Zia ur-Rehman， Mujib Mashal， Anupreeta Das and Pragati K.B. —
India launched strikes on Pakistan after a deadly terror attack in Kashmir, a territory that it has long fought over with Pakistan.

A soldier examines a building damaged by a suspected Indian missile attack near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, on Wednesday.

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Overnight Clashes Strain Diplomacy Efforts for India and Pakistan

By: Mujib Mashal and Salman Masood —
Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized the need for “immediate de-escalation” as he spoke with leaders from both countries.

A house damaged by artillery shelling in Poonch, in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, on Thursday.

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Vance’s Visit to India Sparks Hopes for Trade Deal Amid Trump Tariff Pause

By: Anupreeta Das and Pragati K.B. —
Those tariff clouds? Indians wish them away as they welcome Vice President JD Vance for a four-day visit.

Vice President JD Vance, his wife, Usha Vance, and their children at the Akshardham temple in New Delhi on Monday.

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His Bollywood Spoofs Brought Joy to a Mill Town. Then Bollywood Came Calling.

By: Mujib Mashal and Atul Loke —
An Indian biopic tells the story of Nasir Shaikh, whose no-budget, all-heart productions gave his home city of Malegaon a film industry of its own.

Nasir Shaikh at a trailer launch in Mumbai, India, in February for a new film about his life and work.

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A Long Journey Home: After 50 Years, Back on the Reservation

By: David W. Chen and Tailyr Irvine —
Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist, returned to North Dakota, where, under home confinement, he will serve the remainder of his life sentence for the murders of two F.B.I. agents.

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Coke, Pepsi and Other U.S. Companies Face Wall Street Pressure Over Labor Abuses in India

By: Megha Rajagopalan —
Pension funds and big investors are pressuring Coca-Cola, Pepsico and others over brutal working conditions in India’s cane fields. Some of the sugar buyers are tiptoeing toward change.

Sugar cane workers in Maharashtra, western India, in 2023. An investigation by The New York Times and The Fuller Project this year revealed a brutal, endemic labor system there.

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5 Takeaways From an Investigation Into Hysterectomies in India’s Sugar Industry

By: Megha Rajagopalan —
Indebted workers, facing brutal working conditions, are pushed to get hysterectomies as a treatment for routine ailments. Sugar mills disclaim responsibility.

Loading sugar cane to transport it to mills in the Satara district of India’s Maharashtra State in March last year. Laborers often work in couples, paid through contractors.

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Why TikTok Faces a U.S. Ban, and What’s Next?

By: Sapna Maheshwari and Amanda Holpuch —
The short-form video app lost a challenge to a law that will ban TikTok in the United States if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell to a non-Chinese company. It has pledged to appeal to the Supreme Court.

TikTok has long denied allegations that it puts sensitive user data into the hands of the Chinese government.

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A Family Loses 3 Generations of Women in India Crowd’s Panic

By: Suhasini Raj and Saumya Khandelwal —
They had worked hard for years to make a life: “Now it’s over with the death of my dear daughter, wife and mother — in one single blow.”

Vinod Kumar, center, mourning over the bodies of his wife and daughter, who died in Tuesday’s stampede.

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Three Ideas to Beat the Heat, and the People Who Made Them Happen

By: Somini Sengupta —
As temperatures soar around the world, practical experiments are emerging to protect people.

Hansa Ahir, left, who salvages recyclable waste for a living in Ahmedabad, India, bought an insurance policy to cover her income on days when heat makes it dangerous to work.

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Canadian Arrests Highlight Alleged Gang Role in India’s Intelligence Operations

By: Mujib Mashal and Suhasini Raj —
India’s external spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, has long been accused of tapping into criminal networks to carry out operations in South Asia. Is the agency now doing similar operations in the West?

People gathered at the Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia, yesterday, the site of the 2023 murder of a Sikh nationalist leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

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Why India’s New Ram Temple Is So Important

By: Alex Travelli and Hari Kumar —
Its site is sacred to Hindus, and it also represents the much more recent victory of Hinduism as a political identity.

Taking a selfie in front of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, India. The temple will be consecrated on Monday.

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Modi Opens a Giant Temple, a Triumph Toward a Hindu-First India

By: Mujib Mashal， Hari Kumar and Atul Loke —
The temple inaugurated by the prime minister is on the disputed site of a centuries-old mosque destroyed in a Hindu mob attack that set a precedent of impunity against Muslims.

The Ram temple in Ayodhya last month. Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, inaugurated the temple on Monday, months before an election, even though it is only 70 percent finished.

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After 16 Days, Rescue Near for Workers Stuck in Tunnel, Officials Say

By: Mujib Mashal and Suhasini Raj —
After repeated mechanical setbacks, the Indian operation turned to trained miners using manual tools to clear the final stretch of debris.

Dozens of rescue workers gathered outside the tunnel on Tuesday.

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