India

Growing up in India, she was a fan of the dubbed-in-Hindi TV series. As a globetrotting adult, she is touched by the Disney movie version.

By 2017, all new mobile phones will have to be able to send out a distress call. It is part of an initiative to centralize India's emergency response system — and to address violence against women.

The heat came early to India, and everyone is suffering. Here's a report from our village correspondent.

A husband can force his wife to have sex against her will. And that is not a crime. An effort to change the law is running into opposition.

The fire swept through a packed Hindu temple during a fireworks display. Local officials say at least 100 were killed, with at least 200 other people injured.

The death toll in the road collapse is now at 26, NPR's Julie McCarthy reports. Several officials from the firm that built the overpass face charges of attempted murder and criminal conspiracy.

What happened when teens in a conservative Muslim neighborhood in Kolkata began watching lush, romantic Bollywood films.

The construction company that's been working on the project for years now says that the devastating collapse was caused after a pillar failed — but that it was an act of God.

Images from the scene in eastern India show cars and trucks pinned under large concrete sections, as scores of people work around tangled metal supports.