We look at India’s looming status as the world’s most populous country and also give you the latest on the Fox News settlement.
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India Is Passing China in Population. Can Its Economy Ever Do the Same?
India has a young, vast work force that is expanding as China’s ages and shrinks. But the country’s immense size also lays bare its enormous challenges.
Your Wednesday Briefing: How Russia Gets Chips for Its Weapons
Also, a cease-fire fails in Sudan.
India’s Top Court Begins Hearing Same-Sex Marriage Case
The Supreme Court in recent years has struck down a ban on consensual gay sex. A ruling in favor of legalizing gay unions would make India an outlier in Asia.
Your Monday Briefing: Fighting in Sudan
Also, an extrajudicial killing on live TV in India.
Killing of Atiq Ahmed in India Renews Alarm About Extrajudicial Violence
The victim was a former politician, a notorious criminal and a Muslim. Afterward, two government officials described the killing as akin to divine justice.
Killing on Live TV Renews Alarm About India’s Slide Toward Extrajudicial Violence
The victim was a former politician, a notorious criminal and a Muslim. Afterward, two government officials described the killing as akin to divine justice.
Your Monday Briefing: Leaked U.S. Intelligence
Also, China conducts drills near Taiwan and the World Bank prepares for changes.
India’s Tigers Are Making a Comeback
A conservation effort has worked well enough that there is now talk of sending some tigers to Cambodia to help that nation revive its own wild population.
Indian Textbooks Purged of Material Modi’s Party Finds Objectionable
The changes removed or shrank references to material that the governing party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi finds inconvenient to its Hindu-first vision.