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Death of three sisters spotlights India dowry violence
AFP, Published on 07/06/2022
» JAIPUR, India: Before the three sisters and their children were found dead in a well, they left a message blaming the family they had married into.
Power cuts, forest fires in South Asia heatwave
AFP, Published on 30/04/2022
» LAHORE (PAKISTAN) - Power outages compounded the misery of millions of people wilting in a heatwave across India and Pakistan on Friday, with experts blaming climate change for an early onset of roasting summer temperatures.
Lightning strike deaths surge in India
AFP, Published on 03/09/2021
» JAIPUR, India: Faizuddin is still traumatised from the lightning strike that killed his three friends as they took selfies atop a 400-year-old fort in India, where climate change is making lethal strikes more common.
Covid aid lands in India as Canada, Brazil fight outbreaks: world update
AFP, Published on 02/05/2021
» NEW DELHI: India struggled to contain one of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks with nearly 400,000 new infections reported Sunday, as more international aid arrived in the South Asian nation to help end the crisis.
Bangladesh: 'No obligation' to help Rohingya at sea
Reuters, Published on 27/02/2021
» DHAKA: Bangladesh is under “no obligation” to shelter 81 Rohingya Muslim refugees adrift for almost two weeks on the Andaman Sea and being assisted by neighbouring India, said Bangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen.
India begins mega-rollout of Covid-19 vaccine
AFP, Published on 16/01/2021
» NEW DELHI: India begins one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccine programmes on Saturday, a colossal and complex task compounded by safety worries, shaky infrastructure and public scepticism.
India's coronavirus cases pass 9m, hospitals, graveyards overflow
AFP, Published on 20/11/2020
» NEW DELHI: India's coronavirus cases passed nine million on Friday, as the world's second-worst-hit country saw hospitals in the capital New Delhi under pressure and graveyards filling up.
India, China both deploy in 'large numbers' along border
AFP, Published on 26/06/2020
» NEW DELHI: India acknowledged for the first time that it has matched China in massing troops at their contested Himalayan border region after a deadly clash this month.
India says 20 troops killed in fight with China
AFP, Published on 17/06/2020
» NEW DELHI: Twenty Indian soldiers were killed during "hand-to-hand' fighting with Chinese troops in a disputed Himalayan region, India's military said, the first deadly clash between the nuclear powers in decades.
US panel wants India on religious freedom blacklist
AFP, Published on 29/04/2020
» WASHINGTON - A US government panel on Tuesday called for India to be put on a religious freedom blacklist over a "drastic" downturn under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, triggering an sharp rebuttal from New Delhi.