Sushmita Pathak
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Lata Mangeshkar recorded more than 25,000 songs for Indian movie musicals. She died in Mumbai, where she had been hospitalized with pneumonia and COVID-19.
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India has sped up its COVID vaccination after a deadly spring outbreak. Half of those eligible have received at least one shot. But millions are still vulnerable as fears of a new wave loom.
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A new epidemiological study suggests the death toll in India from COVID-19 could be as much as 10 times the official figure — making the count closer to 5 million people.
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Before multiplex cinemas, India had tens of thousands of single-screen movie houses. But the way Indians watch movies has changed, and the pandemic forced many old cinemas to shut their doors forever.
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Hospitals don't have enough oxygen for patients on ventilators. There are delivery bottlenecks. Families are sometimes told to get their own supplies. Health experts say it didn't have to be this way.
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Scientists, funeral directors and survivors say the real numbers of infections and deaths in India may be many times more than the reported figures.
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They're majestic. They're neglected. And now they're slowly being fixed up. Conservationists are preserving them — and officials hope the fountains will supply free water for the city's impoverished.
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Government officials and architects in India are preserving forgotten relics of Mumbai's history: ornate 19th century drinking fountains. Reviving them could help improve water access for the poor.
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New Delhi has some of the dirtiest air in the world, and smog is complicating COVID-19 cases. The upcoming sparkler-filled holiday of Diwali is expected to make air quality even worse.
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Local sources say there's been a spike in child marriage during the pandemic. A key reason: By marrying off girls early, poor families have one less mouth to feed in desperate times.