Katy Daigle

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Indian ruling BJP makes big gains in state polls

Katy Daigle · October 19, 2014 2:49 pm

A man fills diesel in a car at a fuel station in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014. India freed diesel prices from government control Sunday while raising natural gas tariffs in the biggest-yet reform by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, as it aims to boost the country's economy and overhaul its energy sector.(AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

India fuel reform puts diesel under market control

Katy Daigle · October 19, 2014 1:50 pm

In this photo combo, Malala Yousafzai, left, and Kailash Satyarthi, address the media, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Despite their many differences, 17-year-old Yousafzai and 60-year-old Satyarthi will be forever linked, co-winners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, honored for risking their lives for the rights of children to education and to lives free of abuse. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira, Bernat Armangue)

Nobel: 2 rival nations, 1 message of peace

Katy Daigle · October 11, 2014 2:35 am

An Indian man urinates on the banks of the River Brahmaputra in Gauhati, India, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. India is considered to have the world's worst sanitation record despite spending some $3 billion since 1986 on sanitation programs, according to government figures. Building toilets in rural India, where hundreds of millions are still defecating outdoors, will not be enough to improve public health, according to a study published Friday. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Study: Toilets alone won’t fix India sanitation

Katy Daigle · October 10, 2014 4:51 pm

India releases first image of crater-scarred Mars

Katy Daigle · September 25, 2014 2:16 pm

India launches campaign to boost manufacturing

Katy Daigle · September 25, 2014 11:52 am

Screens show Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting Indian Space Research Organisation scientists and other officials after the success of Mars Orbiter Mission at their Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network complex in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. India triumphed in its first interplanetary mission, placing a satellite into orbit around Mars on Wednesday morning and catapulting the country into an elite club of deep-space explorers. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Mars mission opens India for space business

Katy Daigle · September 24, 2014 2:41 pm

Screens show Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeting Indian Space Research Organisation scientists and other officials after the success of Mars Orbiter Mission at their Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network complex in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. India triumphed in its first interplanetary mission, placing a satellite into orbit around Mars on Wednesday morning and catapulting the country into an elite club of deep-space explorers. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India successfully puts spacecraft in Mars’ orbit

Katy Daigle · September 24, 2014 4:42 am

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks during an inter-faith meeting in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. The Dalai Lama brought religious leaders together Saturday to mull some of India's most pressing problems, from gender violence to widespread poverty, while praising the country's religious harmony as proof to the world that different communities can live peacefully together. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

Dalai Lama praises China’s leader as ‘realistic’

Katy Daigle · September 21, 2014 4:28 am

Indians gather around a table inside a state-owned bank to open their accounts as part of a massive countrywide campaign to open millions of accounts for the poor in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014.The measure is aimed at some 150 million Indians who are off the financial grid and vulnerable to black market money lenders. As an incentive the federal government is providing 100,000 rupees ($1,650) in life insurance to every account holder. (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)

India urges millions of poor to open bank accounts

Katy Daigle · August 28, 2014 12:16 pm

FILE- In this March 18, 2013 file photo, a trail of fire lines the banks after piles of garbage were set afire at the end of the Mahakumbh mela festival at the confluence of rivers the Ganges and the Yamuna in Allahabad, India. A new study shows that rampant trash-burning is releasing more polluting emissions than governments are reporting.The researchers estimate about 41 percent of the world's garbage is burned in backyards, fields, dumps or incinerators. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh, file)

Energy and Environment

Global trash burning more polluting than expected

Katy Daigle · August 27, 2014 11:23 am

Group decries India’s reliance on waste cleaners

Group decries India’s reliance on waste cleaners

Katy Daigle · August 25, 2014 11:30 am