Lauren Frayer

Protesters continue to demonstrate against the Indian government's moves to marginalize Muslims. The protesters are mainly urban elites, and for now aren't a political threat to Prime Minister Modi.

After a 2012 gang rape on a New Delhi bus, India increased prison terms for rape. But ghastly cases still dominate the news, and most rape still goes unreported — and unprosecuted.

The men were convicted of the notorious 2012 attack on a college student, who has become known in Indian media as "Nirbhaya," or "The Fearless One."

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.

Researchers say the country's fixation on the rape of urban women in public settings distorts the reality of sexual violence in India.

NPR international correspondent Lauren Frayer shares a conversation that never made it into a piece but has stuck with her since she taped it, with a man whose wife was the alleged victim of a priest.

The mass demonstrations followed violence that erupted Sunday night, as police stormed a public university in New Delhi.

The marches cap nearly a week of protests over the new citizenship law, which grants amnesty to non-Muslim migrants. Critics say the measure discriminates against Muslims.

A Chinese state-owned operator took control of a port on a 99-year lease after Sri Lanka defaulted on its loans. An adviser to Sri Lanka's president said the government wants China to "give it back."

Mohammad Taslim tried to warn authorities about other Muslims who'd been radicalized. He was shot soon after. Two men he flagged are now under arrest for links to Sri Lanka's Easter terrorist attacks.

Demonstrations continue in India's northeast over legislation that grants Indian passports to religious minorities from three nearby countries but excludes Muslims.

Protests erupted in India with the passage of a controversial new law that uses religion as a criteria for citizenship. Critics say it violates the secularism enshrined in India's constitution.

Firefighters finally managed to put out the flames after a fire broke out Sunday in a handbag factory in the city's old quarter. Many of those killed were migrant workers from all over India.

Last year, a man in Sri Lanka alerted police to neighbors who were stockpiling weapons. A month later, those same gunmen allegedly helped carry out Easter bombings that killed more than 250 people.

Police say the men attacked officers as they were investigating the crime scene and were shot dead in self-defense. Many are celebrating swift, sure justice; others call it an extrajudicial execution.

Four men accused of raping and murdering a woman in India were shot dead by police as they were being questioned about the crime. Human rights activists are calling it an extrajudicial execution.

Protests erupted in India after an alleged rape and killing of a female veterinarian. But this is not typical; most victims of sexual violence in India are poor rural women.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the civil war-era defense secretary, is considered a hero to many majority Buddhists but the prospect of his winning Saturday's presidential election terrifies some minorities.

The worst killing fields in Sri Lanka's civil war were the Tamil north. Ten years later, the man who ordered bombings there is frontrunner in the presidential election.

"The Dalai Lama's reincarnation is a civilizational struggle between China and Tibetans over who controls Tibetan Buddhism," says Amitabh Mathur, a former Indian government adviser on Tibetan affairs.