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India plans mega-dam to counter China water fears
AFP, Published on 30/09/2025
» RIEW (INDIA) - On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam -- India's latest move in its contest with China over Himalayan water.
Birthday boy Kohli equals Tendulkar's ODI ton record as India beat South Africa
AFP, Published on 05/11/2023
» KOLKATA - Virat Kohli equalled Sachin Tendulkar's record of 49 one-day international hundreds as India bowled out South Africa for just 83 in a 243-run World Cup rout on Sunday with the superstar batsman hailing his achievement as "the stuff of dreams".
Ton-up Klaasen stars as South Africa hammer England
AFP, Published on 21/10/2023
» MUMBAI - Heinrich Klaasen made a brilliant World Cup century as South Africa thrashed England by a mammoth 229 runs in Mumbai on Saturday to leave the champions' title defence hanging by a thread as they suffered a record defeat in a one-day international.
Hindu nationalism on campus touches political nerve
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 30/09/2019
» The introduction of an undergraduate course on the history of Hindu nationalism at a government university has led to accusations against the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of promoting a divisive ideology.
Modi allies in soup over threats to Indian voters
AFP, Published on 13/04/2019
» NEW DELHI - Two top members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party including an estranged member of the Gandhi dynasty were in hot water Saturday for appearing to threaten people to vote for them in the ongoing mega-election.
Indian crowds call on Modi to help build Ayodhya temple
Published on 10/12/2018
» NEW DELHI: Dozens of Hindu monks and tens of thousands of followers demanded Sunday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party to help build a temple on the ruins of a 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya.
India's billon-dollar battle to build the world's biggest statue
AFP, Published on 03/09/2018
» SARDAR SAROVAR DAM (INDIA) - The world's biggest statue is rising in a remote corner of India to honour an independence hero but it could quickly be outdone by a monument to a Hindu warrior king in the sea off Mumbai.
Indian court jails popular guru for life over teen rape
AFP, Published on 25/04/2018
» JODHPUR (INDIA) - An Indian guru with millions of followers was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for raping a teenage devotee on the pretext of ridding her of evil spirits, his lawyer said.