Sushmita Pathak

Hospitals don't have enough oxygen for patients on ventilators. There are delivery bottlenecks. Families are sometimes told to get their own supplies. Health experts say it didn't have to be this way.

Scientists, funeral directors and survivors say the real numbers of infections and deaths in India may be many times more than the reported figures.

Hindu pilgrims are traveling to bathe in the Ganges River to wipe out their sins.

They're majestic. They're neglected. And now they're slowly being fixed up. Conservationists are preserving them — and officials hope the fountains will supply free water for the city's impoverished.

Government officials and architects in India are preserving forgotten relics of Mumbai's history: ornate 19th century drinking fountains. Reviving them could help improve water access for the poor.

Reporter Meera Devi, from the marginalized Dalit caste, is determined to get her community heard. She's featured in the award-winning documentary, Writing With Fire, which opens in the U.S. on Friday.

India is reporting its largest spike in new coronavirus cases since November. Its health ministry said that several concerning variants have been detected.

The scenes that have played out in India's financial capital this year with COVID-19 bear a striking resemblance to what life was like when the bubonic plague hit more than a century ago.

Journalist Priya Ramani said her former editor had sexually harassed her, which he denied. "I feel vindicated on behalf of all the women who have ever spoken out against sexual harassment," she said.

Ranjitsinh Disale from India has been honored for finding ways to educate girls whose parents don't want them to come to school.