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Huge crowds gathered for India's Republic Day parade Sunday, with women taking centre-stage at the annual pomp-filled spectacle of military might featuring army tanks, horses and camels.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrived for his first official visit to India on Friday aiming to boost ties between the two stuttering BRICS economies and with fellow right-wing leader Narendra Modi.
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Meerut -
Pawan Kumar feels zero sympathy for the four men he is due to hang next month for a 2012 gang rape and murder that appalled India.
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Defiant women who have been blocking a New Delhi highway for more than four weeks in protest against a bitterly disputed citizenship law have inspired thousands across India to copy their challenge to the Hindu nationalist government.
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More than 150 birds have been killed by razor-sharp kite strings in an annual religious festival in western India that attracts millions of revellers.
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A villager was gored to death during a traditional bull-taming festival in southern India, underlining the dangers of the bloody sport.P.
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Bollywood star Sonam Kapoor Ahuja has warned Uber users against the ride-hailing app in London after suffering "the scariest experience" with a driver in the British capital.
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US President Donald Trump's shaky grasp of geography includes not knowing that India shares a border with China, according to a new book by a pair of reporters for The Washington Post.
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European powers have violated a 2015 international nuclear deal, Iran's foreign minister told a conference in India on Wednesday, a day after Britain, France and Germany launched a complaint against Tehran for non-compliance.
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Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos promised Wednesday a new billion-dollar investment in India, just two days after authorities launched an anti-trust investigation into the e-commerce giant.
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Indian police have sealed a private hospital and charged staff for manslaughter after a newborn baby was mauled to death by dogs inside an operating theatre, an investigator said Tuesday.
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Microsoft's chief executive hit out at the government of his native India and joined criticism of a new citizenship law that opponents of Prime Minister Narendra Modi say is anti-Muslim.
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Indian police baton-charged protesters Sunday to stop them reaching Prime Minister Narendra Modi's car as nationwide protests against a bitterly disputed citizenship law entered a second month.
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Every night, 75-year-old Noornissa braves the freezing cold to help block one of the main roads into the capital of India, in a protest that is at the forefront of a rising challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Indian police fired live rounds Wednesday to break up a protest by strikers taking part in nationwide action against government economic policies, officials said.
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An Indian court Tuesday ordered the execution on January 22 of four men convicted of the infamous 2012 gang rape and murder of a Delhi university student.
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The last decade was India's hottest on record with the national weather office calling the impact of global warming "unmistakable" and extreme weather killing more than 1,500 people last year.India, home to 1.
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Protests were held across India Monday after masked assailants wielding batons and iron rods went on a rampage at a top Delhi university, leaving more than two dozen injured.
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Every day the train to Kashmir's remote cyber oasis Banihal is packed as people travel for hours to get online in the disputed region where internet has been cut for five months.
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Tens of thousands of people protested across India on Friday against a citizenship law passed by the Hindu nationalist government that critics say discriminates against Muslims.
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A fireman battling a blaze at a New Delhi factory was killed Thursday after the building collapsed, officials said, in the third major fire in the Indian capital in less than a month.
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Dense fog and hazardous air pollution blanketed northern India and disrupted hundreds of flights on Monday, as harsh winter weather sent temperatures plunging to near-record lows.
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As Indian protests against a new citizenship law have intensified, so has police use of "lathis", sturdy sticks used to whack, thwack and quell dissent since British colonial times -- to sometimes deadly effect.
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Thousands protested in rival demonstrations in India Friday as tensions deepen over a citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim, with authorities deploying huge numbers of riot police in the country.
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Indians took to the streets again on Thursday in yet more protests against a citizenship law, a day after pro-government Hindu hardliners staged a show of force complete with horses, drums and batons.
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Tens of thousands of Indians have taken to the streets in recent days to voice their anger over a new citizenship law that they say discriminates against the minority Muslim community.
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With their parents bombarding them on WhatsApp with misinformation and even abuse over their stand on India's new citizenship law, young women are hiding their identities on social media to voice outrage and find alternative families.
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India's ruling party launched a video with animated Muslim characters on social media Monday in a publicity blitz aiming to bust "myths" around a new citizenship law that has sparked deadly protests.
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India's ruling party launched a video with animated Muslim characters on social media Monday as part of a publicity blitz to try to bust "myths" around a new citizenship law that has sparked deadly protests.
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In remote Indian Kashmir people have been offline since August, queuing for hours to pay bills or using government "internet kiosks".
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Assembly house of Tripura, one of the 8 states of North Eastern India.
Elephant, Nagarhole National Park, Karnataka, India Jayanand Govindaraj (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Latest satellite imagery of monsoon in India. IMD
Indian anti-government protester Anna Hazare Deepanker Raj
Lodu Sikaka was released three days after his abduction. © Survival
Bandstand - Mumbai, India
Rural tribal people of Tripura, India are taking a break from their work and having a chat at a doorstep of a shop. The people of this are, known as Jeolchcher under Ambassa in Dhalai district of Tripura witnessed brutal violence by tribal militants for more than two decades. Most of these rural people suffered a lot owing to militancy. After peace returned, normal development works had started and villagers got a chance to manage a daily square meal for them. Doorsteps of shop in rural Tripura
Former Foreign Secretary William Hague meeting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President, Shri Nitin Gadkari in London, 19 July 2011. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Indian farmers are blaming Monsanto's Bt cotton for their whitefly infestation of their crops. Times of India
View of the Kudamkulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu, India Times of India
Desertification of agricultural lands in India is getting worse, and this will have implications for the whole world. Indian Ministry of Environment
Outlet of a tube well to a temporary reservoir. There were about 5 million wells in 1950-51 and their number has now increased to about 12 million in India. Dgrepaec
Last year’s drought in India, together with unseasonal weather earlier this year is threatening a substantial decline in food-grain output—the first in five years of such magnitude. Mint
Map showing the disputed areas between Pakistan and India Central Intelligence Agency
Aerial view showing India's annual crop burning, resulting smoke and air pollution. During the autumn and winter months, some 500 million tons of crop residue are burnt, and winds blow from India's north and northwest towards east. NASA
2015. St. Jude Childcare Centre. Mumbai, India
Workers preparing bamboo scaffolding.
A call centre. Some industry experts are touting the centres as the sweat-shops of the 21st century. Flickr
Kids of a village of Tripura, India. Bamboo is an important item to people rural India as well as Tripura. People of poor and lower income group prefer less costly bamboo made materials for setting up houses. Look at bamboos being piled up and bamboo made houses behind the kids in the photo. Importantly, bamboo made houses provide relative safer shelter in earth quack prone areas like Tripura.
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