By Madhur Singh Vrindavan, India 24 January 2008 Vrindavan, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is called the City of Widows. Upper-caste Hindu widows who are disowned by their families go there to live. Young and old spend their remaining years si...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 15 January 2008 The world's cheapest car, made by an Indian manufacturer, has triggered unprecedented interest in a country where only eight people in every thousand own a car. From New Delhi, Anjana Pasricha has a report...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 01 January 2008 India remains one of the few countries where polio has not been eradicated. Most of the world's new cases are reported in the subcontinent. While the total number of cases dropped in India last year, VOA cor...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 December 2007 Aid agencies report significant progress has been made in helping survivors of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami rebuild their lives and livelihoods three years after the disaster struck. While progress has...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 11 December 2007 India's Cabinet minister for rural development faces demands for his dismissal after television news reports showed scenes of children working the fields on his family farm. VOA correspondent Steve Herman re...
By Steve Herman Delhi 09 December 2007 India's Supreme Court has struck down a 1914 law that prevented women from tending bar. The justices rejected the Delhi government's argument that women bartenders would find themselves in peril at the hands of...
By Nina Maria Potts Antwerp, The Netherlands 06 December 2007 The city of Antwerp has been home to a prosperous diamond industry for centuries. Traditionally, the fine craft of polishing belonged to the city's Jewish community. But the success of Ind...
By Shahnawaz Khan Srinagar 26 November 2007 The Indian Army has left schools and hospitals it had been occupying in Kashmir. Although the move is largely symbolic and no troop reductions in Kashmir are planned at the moment, the transfer has diminish...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 01 November 2007 Indian stock markets touched record highs this week as foreign investors pour massive funds into one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. But as Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, there are...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 29 October 2007 Tens of thousands of farmers have converged in the Indian capital following a month-long protest march. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, they are demanding rights over land and livelihood. Singin...