Articles written by Sheikh Saaliq
Sorted by date Results 1 - 6 of 6
By 
Passenger's video captures last moments before Nepal crash
NEW DELHI (AP) — Airplane passenger Sonu Jaiswal's 90-second smartphone video began with the aircraft approaching the runway by flying over buildings and green fields over Pokhara, a Nepalese city in the foothills of the Himalayas. Everything l...
In Kashmir, 'conscious music' tests India's limits on speech
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A burgeoning form of resistance music laced with religious metaphors is fast taking wing in Kashmir, a disputed region divided between rivals India and Pakistan. Known as "conscious music," it's a blend of progressive Sufi r...
SOS messages, panic as virus breaks India's health system
NEW DELHI (AP) — Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his desperately ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works. Like o...
India's confirmed coronavirus tally reaches 6 million cases
NEW DELHI (AP) — India's confirmed coronavirus tally reached 6 million on Monday, keeping the country second to the United States in number of reported cases. The Health Ministry reported 82,170 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, driving t...
Virus tracing app raises privacy concerns in India
NEW DELHI (AP) — As India enters an extended coronavirus lockdown, the government is actively pursuing contact tracing to help control infections. At the heart of the effort in the country of 1.3 billion people is a government-run smartphone app that...
'I am so afraid': India's poor face world's largest lockdown
The street peddler watched the prime minister's speech on a battered TV, with her family of five crowded around her in a one-room house with no toilet and no running water. It's squeezed into a Mumbai shantytown controlled by an obscure Mumbai organi...
