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Authorities began clearing roads and assessing damage on Friday after Cyclone Amphan barreled through coastal communities in eastern India and neighboring Bangladesh, killing more than 100 people and leaving millions displaced.

He first made headlines when he spoke to local media about a lack of PPE for health care workers.

More than 80 people killed as Cyclone Amphan rips through India, Bangladesh leaving a trail of death and destruction

One of the strongest storms in more than a decade roared ashore in eastern India and Bangladesh Wednesday, packing heavy rain and wind as millions fled to shelters in an evacuation complicated by the coronavirus pandemic.

A Christian pastor from Tennessee is glad to be back in the United States after spending months detained in India.

New hot spots have emerged globally signaling more trouble ahead as cases have been spiking in several populous nations: from India to South Africa to Mexico.

Millions of people have been ordered to evacuate from coastal areas of India and Bangladesh ahead of a super cyclone in the Bay of Bengal that's already tied a record for the strongest recorded storm in the region.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Tuesday that the government will spend more than $260 billion, the equivalent of nearly 10 percent of the country's GDP, on a coronavirus economic relief package designed to make the world's second most populous nation more self reliant.

Chinese and Indian soldiers got into a cross-border altercation that involved fistfights and stone-throwing in a remote disputed mountain pass near Tibet over the weekend, according to media reports. 

A chemical gas leaked from an industrial plant in southern India early Thursday, leaving people struggling to breathe and collapsing in the streets as they tried to flee. At least eight people were killed and nearly 1,000 suffered breathing difficulties and other reactions.