Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologized to the public on Sunday for imposing a three-week national lockdown, calling it harsh but ``needed to win'' the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.

It's the most extensive stay-at-home order yet in the world's efforts against COVID-19.

At least 341 people have been infected in India by the new coronavirus, including the first case in the largely impoverished eastern state of Bihar, according to health officials.

Experts say the attacks on reporters covering the riots -- and censorship afterward -- signal growing intolerance for independent reporting in India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.

Gurpreet Singh says he was threatened while giving a talk criticizing the Indian government's Citizenship Amendment Act at the University of British Columbia.

While riots wracked northeastern New Delhi over the previous days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted a lavish reception for Trump.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the northwestern city are expected to greet Trump on Monday for a road show leading to a massive rally at what has been touted as the world's largest cricket stadium.

It's a setback for the party as it faces massive anti-government protests against a contentious new citizenship law.

The protest, led by Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, comes at a time when tens and thousands of demonstrators have taken to India's streets to call for the revocation of the law, which critics say is the latest effort by Modi's government to marginalize the country's 200 million Muslims.

Twenty-three people have been killed nationwide since the law was passed in Parliament earlier this month in protests that represent the first major roadblock for Modi’s Hindu nationalist agenda since his party’s landslide re-election last spring.