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The plane swayed violently as it approached a hilltop runway drenched in monsoon rain, and moments later the special return flight for Indians stranded abroad by the pandemic skidded off, nosedived and cracked in two, leaving 18 dead and more than 120 injured

At least 18 people have died and 123 are injured when a special return flight for Indians stranded abroad because of the coronavirus skidded off a hilltop runway and cracked in two while landing in heavy rain in the southern state of Kerala

At least 16 people were killed when an Air India Express flight with 190 people on board skidded off a runway and split in two while landing Friday.

Texas and Florida have clamped down on bars in America’s biggest retreat yet as the nation’s daily number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to an all-time high of 45,300.

China says the disputed border region where Chinese and Indian troops engaged in a deadly brawl this week falls entirely within China

India says it is using diplomatic channels with China to de-escalate a military standoff in a remote Himalayan border region where at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed this week

China and India have accused each other of instigating deadly border clashes between their forces this week, pledging to safeguard their territory but also to try to end a standoff between soldiers from the two sides that began last month in the disputed Himalayan frontier

A border clash high in the Himalayas between the world’s two most populated countries has claimed the lives of 20 Indian soldiers

The New York Times reports how the New Delhi police in India, known for fearsome crackdowns against residents in recent years, is using its response to the coronavirus to reshape a lingering perception of brutality.

Authorities are clearing roads and assessing damage after Cyclone Amphan barreled through coastal communities in eastern India and neighboring Bangladesh, killing more than 100 people and leaving millions displaced

Wide areas of coastal India and Bangladesh are flooded and millions of people are without power after Cyclone Amphan struck the region

A powerful cyclone is plowing inland after battering the coasts of India and Bangladesh

A powerful cyclone expected to make landfall on Wednesday has forced the evacuation of millions of people in India and Bangladesh.

A gas leak at a chemical factory owned by a South Korean company in southern India has left at least 11 people dead and about 1,000 struggling to breathe

From Italy to Kansas, health authorities are increasingly warning that the question isn’t whether a second wave of coronavirus infections and deaths will hit, but when — and how badly.

A selfless spirituality is what drives Jacklyn Janeksela of Cambridge. Making her fifth trip to India in early February for volunteer work, Janeksela had no idea how the growing coronavirus crisis would impact her plans to return home in early April. India went into lockdown. “My flights have been canceled numerous times,” Janeksela said But she didn’t panic. Instead...

A Cambridge woman is stuck in India from a mission trip after the country locked down to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

A carmaker in India designed a car in the shape of coronavirus to stress the importance of staying at home during a 21-day lockdown in the country.

A couple in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh have named their newborn twins Corona and Covid.

The world’s largest democracy went under the world’s biggest lockdown Wednesday, as India’s 1.3 billion people stayed home in a bid to stop the march of the coronavirus pandemic. As infections and deaths rose in the U.S. and Europe, U.S. lawmakers agreed on a massive $2 trillion domestic aid package to help those economically devastated by the...