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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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