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"The Chinese 'normal' has now changed. It is no longer the 9 percent, 10 percent, 11 percent growth rate," Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said. "So the world needs other engines to carry the growth process, and in a slowdown environment in the world, an economy which can grow at 8 to 9 percent like India certainly has viable shoulders to provide the support to the global economy." (Associated Press)

China’s economic woes provide India with ‘great opportunity’

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Midnight’s Furies’

By Martin Rubin

In this image made from video, people gather by two derailed trains in Harda in Madhya Pradesh state, India, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015. Two passenger trains derailed over a bridge in central India while crossing a track that was flooded by heavy monsoon rains, killing at a number of people, officials said Wednesday. (Photo via AP Video)

India trains derail; at least 24 killed, 300 survive

Associated Press

In this photo taken Aug. 3, 2014, Thai surrogate mother Pattaramon Chanbua, a 21-year-old food vendor, poses with Gammy, a 9-month old baby boy who was born with a Down syndrome at a hospital in Sri Racha, Chonburi province, southeastern Thailand. The case of an Australian couple accused of abandoning their son with his Thai surrogate mother after discovering the child had Down syndrome, and taking home his healthy twin, has cast unfavorable light on the largely unregulated business of commercial surrogacy. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

High price tags and ugly secrets — how the pregnancy surrogacy industry preys on poor women

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a conference by The Environment Ministry in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das) ** FILE **

Pakistan, India agree to cooperate on eliminating terrorism

By Munir Ahmed - The Washington Times

An Indian girl holds a can filled with water and walks past railway tracks to defecate in the open in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Toilets are taken for granted in the industrialized West, but still are a luxury for a third of the world's people who have no access to them, according to a report by the World Health Organization and UNICEF released Tuesday. India is by far the worst culprit, with more than 640 million people defecating in the open, and not necessarily due to a lack of facilities. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

One-third of world’s people still have no proper toilets

By Katy Daigle - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping waits to welcome French Prime Minister Manuel at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Fred Dufour, Pool) ** FILE **

China celebrates Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank charter signing with U.S. allies

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Shadow of the Crescent Moon’

By Aram Bakshian Jr.

In this April 22, 2014, file photo, a protester holds a placard during a rally against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

PETER MORICI: Obama’s Asian trade deal sells out American workers

By Peter Morici

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2014 file photo, Malala Yousafzai, visits Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan. Pakistani police say that eight out of 10 militants charged with involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai were actually acquitted in April &#8212; not sentenced to life in prison as reported at the time. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

EDITORIAL: Growing terror threat in Pakistan

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Exile Tibetans perform a religious song 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)

MAURA MOYNIHAN: Mission failure at the International Campaign for Tibet

By Maura Moynihan

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter walks with Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar after receiving a ceremonial welcome in New Delhi. Mr. Carter signed a 10-year agreement with India seen by some as a move to counter China's growing influence. (Associated Press)

U.S., India join forces to counter Beijing aggression in South China Sea

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

An Indian man rests on a hand cart under a market umbrella on a hot day in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, May 28, 2015. Eating onions, lying in the shade and splashing into rivers, Indians were doing whatever they could Thursday to stay cool during a brutal heat wave that has killed more than 1,000 in the past month. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India’s heat wave tests water supply; death toll over 1,800

Associated Press

A young boy dives into a water tank on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Delhi recorded a maximum temperature of 42 degrees Celsius on Wednesday. In southern India, hundreds of people have died since the middle of April as soaring summer temperatures scorch the country, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

Indians crowd rivers, shady trees as heat toll passes 1,400

By Omer Farooq - Associated Press

President Barack Obama walks out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, may 27, 2015, to board Marine One on the South Lawn for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., before traveling to Miami to attend DNC fundraisers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

DREW JOHNSON: Obama expands his taxpayer-funded solar boondoggles overseas

By Drew Johnson