International

KOLKATA, India—Amazon launched its first e-pharmacy in India, on Aug. 14, entering into direct competition with the country’s largest conglomerate, Reliance Industries Ltd. Reliance recently acquired a 60 percent stake in Vitalic, the parent firm […]

Endangered whale sharks, the world’s largest fish, are illegally caught and killed for fins and liver oil on the west coast of India. A recent incident in Mumbai has again put the spotlight on a […]

Indians — especially from big cities like New Delhi or Mumbai — love eating out. But with a nationwide lockdown still in place in many sectors, it is not an option. Even home deliveries aren’t […]

FRANCISTOWN, Botswana—Botswana is one of Africa’s veritable economic and human development success stories. It made the transition from the United Nations classification of Least Developed Country, with few paved roads and health facilities at the time of its independence in 1966, to a […]

GUWAHATI, India—A small state in India’s troubled northeast has managed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic much better than some of the larger states with more resources. Mizoram is tucked away between Myanmar and Bangladesh, about […]

The Air India Express plane that crashed in the rain on Aug. 7 with 190 people on board while attempting to land at the Kozhikode airport in the southern state of Kerala has raised questions about […]

Russian authorities have broken up a gang of modern-day internet pirates who ambushed people’s computers to steal their YouTube accounts. Police carried out a series of raids in Penza in western Russia, arresting six people—all […]

MUMBAI, India—Box office receipts—which determine a film’s success or failure based on cinema occupancy and ticket sales—did not see a rise in cumulative collections for the first time in five years. Trade analysts had projected […]

Pakistan actress Saba Qamar and singer Bilal Saeed are facing the country’s formidable blasphemy laws and heat from Islamic clerics for shooting a music video in a historic mosque. Qamar, who had a leading role […]

More than half of the slum population in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, is infected with coronavirus. These findings, culled from a serological prevalence study undertaken in three wards of the city in July, signal the […]