Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will meet PM Bennett, President Herzog and FM Lapid on Monday; will participate in Zoom call with Blinken, UAE's Bin Zayed

Images captured by AP photographers around the world last month show worship's diverse manifestations across faith traditions and human-drawn frontiers

Pakistan asks UN to investigate reports that PM Imran Khan's phone was hacked and Delhi opposition chief accuses Modi of 'treason' over use of NSO program

Report estimates excess fatalities to be at least 3.4 million, says true number likely 'an order of magnitude greater than the official count'

Opposition party calls Modi government's alleged use of NSO Group's Pegasus to monitor political opponents, others 'a national security threat'

No stranger to danger while reporting, Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times’s South Asia bureau chief, talks about the challenges and horrors of covering a deadly pandemic

Police source tells Indian daily that officers are questioning college students from Kashmir 'to ascertain their role' in the explosion

Global body says naming coronavirus strains after geographic origins is 'stigmatizing;' UK variant to be known as Alpha, South African Beta, Brazilian Gamma, and Indian Delta

4,454 new deaths in last 24 hours; true toll thought to be significantly greater; surge of infections appears to be easing in big cities but is devastating the poorer countryside

Experts, who express doubts about the official death toll, say wave may not peak until the end of May; mounting calls for tough nationwide lockdown measures