Jason Overdorf

Russia confirmed Monday that it was moving the 30 activists arrested during a Greenpeace demonstration against an Arctic offshore oil rig in September from Murmansk to St. Petersburg to stand trial.

A proposal to legalize marijuana in a Berlin park is polarizing one of the city’s hippest neighborhoods.

As recently as 2010, India's economic rise was thought to be inevitable. Poverty? Call it a “low base.” Unemployed millions? Call that the “demographic dividend.” A runaway deficit? That's “inclusive growth.”

Analysis: India has recently lost more than $25 billion in foreign investment, despite government efforts to woo multinationals.

With a boom in funding and glimmers of success, India's startup scene is heating up.

Analysis: As the Obama administration flubs peace talks, the risk is rising of proxy war between South Asia’s two nuclear rivals

This summer’s devastating “Himalayan tsunami” is a grim omen for the future of the millions of people living downstream from the majestic mountain range.

Cheap smart phones have put porn in the palms of millions. Indians debate if it is triggering a rape epidemic.

India's school lunch program killed 22 children and sent more than two dozen others to the hospital this week in the northern state of Bihar, after a deadly pesticide made its way into free lunches provided to children attending a government-run school. Poisoned food is just another symptom of India's mass dehumanization of the poor.

India's government has finally moved to limit sales of the chemicals used in acid attacks. Why has it taken so long?

A leak accuses a controversial leader of a role in a political murder.

Police in New Delhi have discovered warehouses full of used syringes intended for illegal resale.

Mumbai garment factory collapses on the eve of an expected manufacturing windfall.

Contaminated Delhi water kills two and sends a strong message to the nation.

The Madras High Court ruling has far-reaching consequences for young couples living on a tumultuous sexual landscape.