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Nearly a billion people in the world’s largest democracy are being asked to show documents to prove that they should keep the right to vote.
Our sweeping look at what is behind the recent fury in India -- and what is at stake.
@HariNYT @CopiousNotes27
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NEW -- Three Indian sailors died when the U.S. struck the tanker Settebello. Evidence suggests the ship was not moving when it was hit, but had engaged in risky offshore oil transfers in the days before.
w/ @CopiousNotes27 @EricSchmittNYT
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Massive, spontaneous crowd of Gen Z in central Delhi, demanding accountability of governments. Multiple police barricading are broken, trying to reach parliament. Govt initiated some talks. @MujMash @CopiousNotes27
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Indian authorities not completed the Ahmedabad crash investigation so far. Ex pilots raises qs on preliminary report. With @CopiousNotes27 @PreetaTweets
Families of Air India Crash Victims Seek Answers One Year On nytimes.com/2026/06/12/world…
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Deeply reported story of lost nuclear device at Nanda Devi in a joint covert operation of CIA & Indian agencies in 1965 with new details.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/interactive/2025… With @gettleman
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“My eyes burn all the time. Some days, I get tired very early,” Deepak Rawat, 31, said, trying to suppress a frequent cough.
He and his wife dread every winter in Delhi because their children, 6 and 8, fall ill frequently.
“Every year, it is the same.”
nytimes.com/2025/11/30/world…
We spent a day on the streets of Delhi, from dawn to midnight, chronicling residents’ struggle with air that’s “severe and life-threatening” — year after year.
Spoiler alert: 17-20 times above levels safe for breathing at any place we visited.
Free link: nytimes.com/2025/11/30/world…
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“This is public health emergency, and it should be treated like a public health emergency now,” Dr. Anant Mohan, the head of the pulmonary department, told local news media. @MujMash @CopiousNotes27 @AninditoMukherj
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What Does It Take to Make Your Own Embassy? In India, Not Much.
For almost eight years, an Indian man hid a range of criminal activities behind fake diplomatic missions before finally being caught this week.
@CopiousNotes27
nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world…
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Very intimate account of personal loss and trauma of a family who lost their only son & daughter in law in Air India crash in Ahmedabad. @CopiousNotes27 @MujMash @atulloke
A Father Braces for Life After a Plane Crash Took His ‘Everything’ nytimes.com/2025/07/16/world…
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“Whoever has been close to me, God has taken them away,” Mr. Patel said one day, in tears. “Uma was close to me. God snatched her away. Radhi was close. She married & left. Harshit & Pooja were close. Now they are also gone.”
Led by @CopiousNotes27. Crushing photos: Atul Loke
How do you cope with a loss that takes your "everything" -- at a time when it isn't much you have left?
We followed Anil Patel for this @nytimes story in the days & weeks after the Air India crash, which took from him more than one can ever imagine.
nytimes.com/2025/07/16/world…
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How do you cope with a loss that takes your "everything" -- at a time when it isn't much you have left?
We followed Anil Patel for this @nytimes story in the days & weeks after the Air India crash, which took from him more than one can ever imagine.
nytimes.com/2025/07/16/world…
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“They were my everything, they were my support."
@CopiousNotes27 @suhasiniraj @HariNYT
Photos: Atul Loke
Expectant grandparents; hotel manager who had come to be by his mother's for heart procedure. And dozens of others for whom idea of boarding a flight wasn’t even in reach...life in the shadow of the air traffic from the nearby airport.
Victims of AI17
nytimes.com/2025/06/13/world…
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Expectant grandparents; hotel manager who had come to be by his mother's for heart procedure. And dozens of others for whom idea of boarding a flight wasn’t even in reach...life in the shadow of the air traffic from the nearby airport.
Victims of AI17
nytimes.com/2025/06/13/world…
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No word yet of Trump tariffs' impact on "the United States of Kailasa."
But here's something very real the emissaries of "His Divine Holiness, the Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism" were trying to pull off in Bolivia.
They were deported...and not to Kailasa.
nytimes.com/2025/04/03/world…
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Hoy publicamos en @nytimes la historia de Kailasa en Bolivia. Incluye declaraciones de un dirigente indígena que firmó los convenios, dice que fueron engañados y que el acuerdo inicial era diferente.
Con @MujMash y @CopiousNotes27
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The bizarre story of Kailasa stretches back at least to 2019, when d guru known as Swami Nithyananda— His Divine Holiness,d Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism—fled India after being accused of rape, torture and child abuse. @MujMash @MariaSTrigo @CopiousNotes27
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A hard-line Hindu group’s call for the removal of the tomb of a 17th-century Mughal ruler has ignited tensions with Muslims in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, leading to communal violence and the imposition of a curfew.
nytimes.com/2025/03/20/world… @PreetaTwe @CopiousNotes27
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“As these two movies — @raodyness’s Laapataa Ladies & @PayalKapadia86’s All We Imagine As Light — show, Indian cinema is much more than traditional Bollywood…”
@PreetaTweets & @CopiousNotes27
nytimes.com/2024/11/24/world…
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In its ruling on “bulldozer justice,“ India’s supreme court said that meting out such punishment without due process “reminds one of a lawless state of affairs, where ‘might was right’”
@CopiousNotes27
nytimes.com/2024/11/13/world…
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An effort to turn India’s trash mountains into energy has become an acute health crisis for a million people in the capital city of Delhi. Maria Abi-Habib, an investigative correspondent, explains what a years-long New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/4fklEJQ