![A crow flies near Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace in New Delhi, on April 2. Air quality has markedly improved in India's capital since the country's coronavirus lockdown began last month.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/12c3265/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3478x4637+2383+0/resize/150x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2020%2F04%2F10%2Fgettyimages-1208924187_wide-53670f287f66c57ff279267d0c98b012430e3666.jpg)
Sushmita Pathak
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India has ordered 1.3 billion people to stay home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The lockdown seems to have inadvertently solved, at least temporarily, another public health crisis: air pollution.
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Acrobatic dancers from Mumbai's slums performed to a Bollywood song and wowed the audience. Fame may help them out of poverty. NPR's India producer visited some of their homes.
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Per capita, India has fewer hospital beds and ventilators than almost any country in the world. Medical professionals fear the government's promised $2 billion health care revamp will be too late.
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Billions of Indians face a strict lockdown. Those in quarantine have their own set of concerns about unsafe conditions.
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"America loves India, America respects India, and America will always be faithful and loyal friends to the Indian people," President Trump told a cheering crowd in a huge cricket stadium.
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Protesters say the weekend attack at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University was carried out by Hindu nationalists linked to the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, a charge the BJP denies.
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Residents of India's big financial city hail the end of an era as their classic black and yellow cabs ride off into the sunset.
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Researchers say the country's fixation on the rape of urban women in public settings distorts the reality of sexual violence in India.
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The new legislation purports to protect transgender rights — but many trans activists say it does the exact opposite.
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Even though the Delhi government has urged folks not to exercise outdoors, a "Race for Children" still took place. The Twittersphere was outraged.