Authorities in India’s capital have shut schools, halted construction and banned non-essential trucks from entering the city after air pollution shot up to its worst level this season

The WHO estimates that air pollution kills 7 million people annually.

Delhi's air-quality index, or AQI, shot up past 1,000 on Monday, more than five times higher than Sarajevo, the second most-polluted major city.

Ukraine scored victories on and off the battlefield last week, with Kyiv securing a long sought after visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The stampede occurred after a religious gathering with Hindu figure Bhole Baba as participants rushed to leave.

An Indian national has been extradited to the United States to face charges he directed a plot to kill a critic of the Indian government in New York City.

India recorded a temperature of 52.3 degrees Celsius -- or about 126 degrees Fahrenheit -- on Wednesday afternoon at a weather station in Mungeshpur, near New Delhi.

Pannun, an American citizen and native of India, has been a frequent critic of the Modi government.

All 41 construction workers were rescued after being trapped for 17 days in a collapsed mountain tunnel.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down in June outside a temple in Surrey.

ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton discusses the Nipah virus outbreak in India.

The Nipah virus was first discovered following an outbreak that caused more than 100 deaths.

Biden is meeting with India's prime minister and looking for support for Ukraine and climate change.

President Joe Biden is scheduled to depart for India and Vietnam Thursday on a trip that includes the Group of 20 summit.

The country became the fourth nation in history to land a craft on the moon.

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission spacecraft successfully landed on the moon Wednesday, making it the fourth country to do so and the first to land in the south pole region.

The lander and rover will be functional for about two weeks.

India’s railway minister said a signal failure is to blame for the horrific train crash that left at least 275 people dead and more than 1,000 injured.

At least 200 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in a train accident in India, as the death toll continues to rise, officials said.

Nearly 300 people have died after two trains derailed in one of the worst rail disasters in India's history

Two passenger trains derailed Friday in India, killing at least 50 people and trapping hundreds of others inside.

The crash occurred Friday night in Odisha.

Two trains derailed in Odisha, India, causing dozens of deaths and injuring hundreds.

The annual survey documents alleged mistreatment and persecution worldwide.

India will continue to maintain ties to both Russia and the West amid the war in Ukraine, experts say, resisting a U.S. push to oppose Moscow while calling for "peace"

A day of unlimited fun for millions celebrating Holi.

The cable bridge collapsed on Sunday evening into the Machchu river.

Dozens have people have died after a cable bridge carrying hundreds of people collapsed into a river in India, according to officials.

More than 91 people died after a cable bridge carrying hundreds collapsed into the Machchu River in the western Indian state of Gujarat, according to state officials.

A controlled explosion leveled the two high-rise apartment towers in India after the country's Supreme Court ordered them to be demolished for building violations.

ABC News' Reena Roy reports on one of the most colorful holidays of the year celebrating the arrival of spring, and the triumph of good over evil.

ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Gosh about their documentary “Writing with Fire,” following the journalists behind India’s only newspaper run by “Dalit” women.

The study suggests 6 million people may have died.

India's top military was killed in helicopter crash.

The South Asian country has begun to cautiously ease its restrictions amid a drop in coronavirus cases and deaths.

The fungal infection may be hitting harder due to steroids used to treat COVID.

Authorities in India opened the facility in a bid to speed up the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in hard-hit Mumbai.

As the COVID crisis continues to escalate in India with thousands dying each day, a U.S. ban on flights begins Tuesday, leaving some desperately searching for ways to help loved ones.

Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, discusses India’s COVID-19 crisis, and new restrictions imposed by the U.S. on travel from India.

The White House cited “extraordinarily high COVID-19 caseloads and multiple variants” in India.

The Indian government has said the international support of celebrities for the ongoing farmers' protests are "neither accurate nor responsible."

Reports of an Air India plane crash with 190 passengers onboard in Calicut.

Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in clashes with Chinese soldiers on the border between the countries, marking the first casualties between the powers in decades.

At least 72 people have died and hundreds of thousands more displaced by a cyclone battering India and Bangladesh.

ABC News travelled to Assam, which is trialling India's controversial new citizenship law, which has sparked months of deadly protests across India.

As Trump talked up the religious unity of India, deadly sectarian protests in Delhi claimed at least seven lives, including a police officer.

A new citizenship law in India threatens the country's sizable Muslim population, according to critics.

Protests continued unabated across India on Tuesday as tensions soar over a controversial new law that offers citizenship to non-Muslim migrants.

A two-year-old boy trapped 100 feet down an abandoned borewell in southern India has been found dead, despite a major rescue operation to try to save him.