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A participant wears a mask as he runs during the Delhi Half Marathon in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017. Ethiopia's Birhanu Legese and Almaz Ayana won the men's and women's elite categories, respectively. (AP Photo/Oinam Anand)

New Delhi’s polluted air doesn’t deter distance runners

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Indian commuters wait for transport amid thick blanket of smog on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. As air pollution peaked this week in Delhi, it rose to more than 30 times the World Health Organization’s recommended safe level. Experts have compared it to smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. A recent report by the Lancet medical journal estimated that a quarter of all premature deaths in India, some 2.5 million each year, are caused by pollution. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Anger rises as toxic air chokes India’s capital

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

U.S. soccer player Josh Sargent celebrates a goal against India during their FIFA U-17 World Cup match in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

US beats host India 3-0 in Under-17 World Cup opener

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Air pollution high at U17 World Cup in India

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

In this Aug. 13, 2017 file photo, a relative attends to a child receiving treatment at the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Acute encephalitis syndrome is a catch-all term to describe patients suffering fever, vomiting, headaches and brain function issues such as confusion, trouble speaking and coma along with seizures. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

Amid India oxygen scandal, docs want focus on encephalitis

By MARGIE MASON - Associated Press

This late 1970's photo from the Naqvi &amp; Zaidi family album shows Fahmida Hasan Zaidi, second right, with her mother Alamdari Begum, left, daughter Kahkashan Naqvi, front, younger sister Khurshid Zaidi, nephew Shiraz Zaidi, right, and young AP reporter Muneeza Naqvi in Lucknow, India. Zaidi lives in New Delhi while the rest of her seven siblings live in cities across Pakistan. For them, a generation raised on the idea that relationships could be nurtured for long periods on the simple sustenance of letters, physical distance has brought pain, but not an emotional distance. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Family bonds survive India-Pakistan split, but for how long?

By MUNEEZA NAQVI - Associated Press

In this image taken from a recent video footage run by China's CCTV on Friday, Aug 4, 2017, a target explodes during a live-fire drill by the Chinese army in China's Tibet Autonomous Region that border India. Beijing is intensifying its warnings to Indian troops to get out of a contested region high in the Himalayas where China, India and Bhutan meet, saying China has been restrained but &quot;restraint has its limits.&quot; Chinese characters in yellow reads &quot;Artillery soldiers high altitude live fire drills&quot;. (CCTV via AP)

With live-fire drill, China warns India not to test Beijing

By LOUISE WATT - Associated Press

China urges India withdrawal in standoff, stages drills

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

File - In this Wednesday, Oct. 23,2013, file photo, an Indian national flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem during a welcome ceremony for visiting Indian officals outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. China is insisting that India withdraw its troops from a disputed Himalayan plateau before talks can take place to settle the most protracted standoff in recent years between the nuclear-armed neighbors. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China demands India leave Himalayan plateau in rising spat

By GERRY SHIH and MUNEEZA NAQVI - Associated Press

In this photo taken Monday, May 29, 2017, an Indian family enters a fast food restaurant in New Delhi, India. More than two decades of rapid economic growth has changed Indians’ lifestyles. People eat out more often, and prefer Western-style junk food such as burgers and pizza over traditional lentil and vegetable meals. The changes have brought a sharp rise in obesity, along with lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, even as India still has some of the world’s worst levels of malnourishment and stunted childhood growth due to a paucity of food. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

A wealthier India sees alarming rise in adolescent diabetes

By NIRMALA GEORGE - Associated Press

In this Thursday, March 30, 2017 photo, motorists drive past the colonial era Regal Theater in New Delhi, India. The Indian capital's iconic theater signed off on Thursday night after more than eight decades with nearly 600 movie buffs cheering a 1964 Bollywood classic at a final screening. With nostalgic theater-goers singing their way to the exits, the iconic New Delhi theater has closed its doors to make way for a multiplex. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Iconic New Delhi movie theater shuts down after 85 years

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Cars and buses clogs a road in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. India's top court Wednesday ordered a temporary ban on the sale of large diesel vehicles in and around New Delhi and slapped a stiff levy on trucks entering the capital as it struggles with record pollution. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

Other Indian cities join Delhi in air pollution emergency

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE - Associated Press

Cars and buses clogs a road in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. India's top court Wednesday ordered a temporary ban on the sale of large diesel vehicles in and around New Delhi and slapped a stiff levy on trucks entering the capital as it struggles with record pollution. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

Delhi shuts schools, halts construction to tackle pollution

By MUNEEZA NAQVI - Associated Press

Cars and buses clogs a road in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. India's top court Wednesday ordered a temporary ban on the sale of large diesel vehicles in and around New Delhi and slapped a stiff levy on trucks entering the capital as it struggles with record pollution. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

2 billion children breathe toxic air worldwide, UNICEF says

By KATY DAIGLE - Associated Press

A heap of grass and garbage burns in a field on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016. The Indian capital, laboring under the label of being the world's most polluted city, is trying something new to help clean up its air. A smartphone application that allows citizens to report the presence of construction dust or the burning of leaves and garbage in public parks to authorities was launched Friday. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India launches phone app to monitor New Delhi’s pollution

Associated Press

Indian Muslims holding placards condemning the weekend militant attacks in Bangladesh walk in a procession in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, July 5, 2016. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath)

Japanese bodies flown home; Dhaka officials search for clues

Associated Press

People help an unidentified injured person after a group of gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, July 1, 2016. (AP Photo)

Some former hostages being questioned over Bangladesh attack

Associated Press

From left, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani hold hands in a show of solidarity after their trilateral meeting at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, on May 23. (Iranian Presidency Office via Associated Press)

India-Iran Chabahar port deal reveals tense Asian rivalries

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Monday, March 28, 2011, file photo, Seema, a Royal Bengal tigress, reacts to the camera at the zoo in Ahmadabad, India. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

Tiger countries agree to preserve big-cat habitats

By Katy Daigle - Associated Press

Many say Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has failed to deliver on his promised reforms. (Associated Press)

Narendra Modi’s star fades in India as promised reforms fail to materialize

By Siddhant Mohan - Special to The Washington Times - The Washington Times