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Journalist, Council on Foreign Relations 2021 International Affairs Fellow in India. Onetime South Asia, Middle East Buro Chief, Global Energy writer, WSJ.

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Joined April 2009
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  1. 13 Oct 2020

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is turning to deregulation amid an economic crisis. So far, the overhaul has led to more confusion than acclaim

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  2. 9 Oct 2020

    Pakistan banned TikTok for carrying what it called indecent content, making it the latest country to restrict the wildly popular Chinese video-sharing app, which is also battling being blocked in the U.S. ⁦⁩

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  3. 30 Sep 2020

    An Indian court acquitted 32 Hindu nationalist leaders who had been accused of orchestrating the destruction of a controversial mosque in the city of Ayodhya. ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩

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  4. 26 Sep 2020

    The fate of Omar Sheikh, who was sentenced to death in 2002 for orchestrating the abduction and killing of Daniel Pearl, has become an important litmus test of Pakistan’s relationship with the U.S. ⁦⁩

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  5. 22 Sep 2020

    Life without TikTok isn’t pretty. Just ask fans in India, where the app was banned in June. “I’m still mourning.” ⁦⁩

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  6. 17 Sep 2020

    United Nations agencies and nonprofit groups say drugmakers should allow less-expensive copies of their Covid-19 vaccines to be sold in poor countries ⁦⁩

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  7. 15 Sep 2020

    Can you properly honor ancestors over video calls? Traditional priests in Nepal are wary. “The ancestors will become angry, sad and curse the performers of such rites.”

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  8. 13 Sep 2020

    For many countries, battling the coronavirus has been a sprint to bring infections under control, then a struggle to keep it that way. In India, it has turned out to be a marathon.

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  9. 8 Sep 2020

    While the approach of winter in the region usually sends military activity into a monthslong deep freeze, experts and officials say high tensions are likely to make this year different. ⁦⁩

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  10. 1 Sep 2020

    Indians are normally among the world’s biggest buyers of gold. Not during coronavirus. ⁦⁩

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  11. 1 Sep 2020

    As rich countries secure Covid-19 vaccine supplies before they are approved, poorer countries are at risk of being left behind. “Whatever we have, it won’t be enough to vaccinate everyone,” said assistant director general at the WHO. ⁦⁩

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  12. 31 Aug 2020

    India says it stopped “provocative” Chinese troop movements in the Himalayas in the most recent wrangling along the informal border between the two Asian powers ⁦⁩

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  13. 31 Aug 2020

    India’s economy—the third largest in Asia and fifth largest in the world—has been hard hit by the pandemic ⁦⁩

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  14. 30 Aug 2020

    Facebook executive’s internal postings were seen by some employees as conflicting with the company’s neutrality pledge

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  15. 28 Aug 2020

    A Chinese company is talking with countries about providing emergency approval for use of a Covid-19 vaccine before clinical trials are complete.”It’s breaking all the global conventions around science and ethics,” said a health expert. ⁦⁩

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  16. 20 Aug 2020

    Not long ago, Indian consumers propelled the country’s economy to world-beating heights. Coronavirus is the most recent, and biggest, blow to their prospects. ⁦⁩

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  17. 14 Aug 2020

    Facebook’s Hate-Speech Rules Collide With Indian Politics - WSJ ⁦⁩

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  18. 13 Aug 2020

    China has agreed to supply Pakistan with coronavirus vaccine in a deal that also would allow vaccine trials to take place there ⁦⁩

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  19. 4 Aug 2020

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s victory comes at a particularly tricky moment, as coronavirus sweeps the country and the economy has all but collapsed ⁦⁩

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  20. 2 Aug 2020

    The longtime ally of Prime Minister Modi tweeted the development as India reported its highest daily number of new cases

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