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Hindu ultranationalist legions mark RSS centenary
AFP, Published on 23/10/2025
» NAGPUR, India - Brandishing bamboo sticks and chanting patriotic hymns, thousands of uniformed men parade in central India, a striking show of strength by the country’s millions-strong Hindu ultranationalist group.
'Hidden treasure': Rare Gandhi portrait up for UK sale
AFP, Published on 16/06/2025
» LONDON - A rare oil painting of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, which is believed to have been damaged by a Hindu nationalist activist, is to be auctioned in London in July.
India to ask caste status in next census
AFP, Published on 01/05/2025
» NEW DELHI - India will conduct its first official caste census since independence, the government announced on Wednesday, a move likely to have far-reaching consequences for its politics and contentious affirmative action policies.
Gunmen in Kashmir kill at least 24 tourists
AFP, Published on 22/04/2025
» SRINAGAR, India - At least 24 people were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir when gunmen opened fire on tourists on Tuesday, a senior police officer told AFP, with authorities calling it the worst attack on civilians in years.
Convictions of Hong Kong pro-democracy trio overturned
Reuters, Published on 06/03/2025
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong’s top court has unanimously overturned the convictions of three former members of a pro-democracy group that organised an annual candlelight vigil to mark China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, citing a miscarriage of justice.
India announces state funeral for ex-PM Manmohan Singh
AFP, Published on 27/12/2024
» NEW DELHI - India on Friday announced seven days of state mourning after the death of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country's economic liberalisation in the early 1990s.
Manmohan Singh: technocrat who became India's accidental PM
AFP, Published on 27/12/2024
» NEW DELHI - Manmohan Singh's father may have believed his bookworm son would one day lead India, but the understated technocrat with the trademark blue turban, who died Thursday at the age of 92, never dreamed it would actually happen.
Fighters from Myanmar civil war aggravate bitter ethnic conflict in India
Reuters, Published on 20/12/2024
» IMPHAL — Indian militant groups that took refuge in Myanmar and fought in its civil war have been streaming back across the border to Manipur state this year, Indian security officers said, inflaming the bitter 19-month ethnic conflict there with weapons and battle-hardened cadres.
At least 106 dead after landslides in southern India
Reuters, Published on 30/07/2024
» THIRUVANANTHPURAM - Landslides swept through tea estates and villages in southern India’s Kerala state on Tuesday, killing at least 106 people while they slept as unexpected heavy rain collapsed hillsides and triggered torrents of mud, water and tumbling boulders
Comfortable majority predicted for Indian PM
Published on 01/06/2024
» NEW DELHI - The alliance led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is projected to win a majority in the general election that concluded on Saturday, an exit poll summary said.