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Gangtok -
A small state in India is to embark on an economic experiment by introducing universal basic income. While the state of Sikkim is small, the concept is attracting global interest.
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By AFP
Jaipur -
At least 40 people have died and more than 1,000 have tested positive for swine flu since the beginning of this year in a western Indian state popular with foreigners, authorities said Friday.
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By AFP
Allahabad -
More than 20 million Hindu pilgrims ritually bathed in India's holy rivers on the opening day of the Kumbh Mela, a gigantic festival billed as the world's largest human gathering.
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By AFP
Thiruvananthapuram -
One of the two women who infuriated Hindu traditionalists by entering a revered shrine in India was attacked by her mother-in-law Tuesday as soon as she returned home after days on the run, police said.
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By AFP
Allahabad -
The largest gathering of humanity on the planet began Tuesday, with tens of millions showered in rose petals and holy ash at a spectacular Hindu festival on India's sacred riverbanks.
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By AFP
Allahabad -
The largest gathering of humanity on the planet began Tuesday, with tens of millions showered in rose petals and holy ash at a spectacular Hindu festival on India's sacred riverbanks.
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By AFP
Thiruvananthapuram -
One of the two women who infuriated Hindu traditionalists by entering a revered shrine in south India was attacked by her mother-in-law Tuesday as soon as she returned home after days on the run, police said.
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By AFP
Kerala -
Bindu Ammini and Kanakadurga are living on the run since infuriating Hindu traditionalists by entering one of India's holiest temples that for generations banned nearly all women.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
An Indian court Friday convicted a disgraced but still-powerful religious sect leader of murdering a journalist after he exposed rampant sexual abuses by the guru.
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By AFP
Bangalore -
India will send its first manned mission into space by December 2021, the head of the country's space agency said on Friday.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
India's ancient city of Varanasi is clearing the way for a grand temple corridor by razing hundreds of houses, wiping away its oldest neighbourhood and upsetting locals.
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By AFP
Washington -
US peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad headed Tuesday on a trip to Afghanistan and regional powers in a fresh bid to negotiate an end to 17 years of war.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
India's lower house passed on Tuesday legislation that will grant citizenship to members of certain religious minorities but not Muslims, sparking protests in the country's northeast.
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By AFP
Dhaka -
Dozens of Rohingya Muslims have crossed the border into Bangladesh from India in recent days, officials said Tuesday, as New Delhi faces censure for deporting the persecuted minority to Myanmar.
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By AFP
Thiruvananthapuram -
Britain on Saturday warned tourists visiting the southern Indian state of Kerala after sporadic violence in recent days over the admission of women to one of Hinduism's holiest temples.
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By AFP
Thiruvananthapuram -
Twin arson and bomb attacks rocked southern India Saturday, continuing a violent backlash that followed the entry of two women into a Hindu temple that forbids female devotees.
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By AFP
Kolkata -
Wildlife authorities in eastern India have deployed drones, trained elephants and set up traps with live bait to find a leopard who escaped from a safari park, officials said Friday.
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By AFP
Thiruvananthapuram -
Indian police said Friday that a third woman has defied traditionalists to enter one of Hinduism's holiest temples, stoking tensions after two days of clashes that left some 275 people injured.
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By AFP
Prague -
After two suitors failed to get a rare Asiatic lioness pregnant, Prague zoo now hopes that artificial insemination will finally plant the seed for her species' survival.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
India rejected US President Donald Trump's comments mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funding a library in Afghanistan, saying Thursday that New Delhi has provided $3 billion in development assistance to the war-torn country.
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By AFP
Thiruvananthapuram -
Protests and violence erupted in southern India on Wednesday after two women defied traditionalists to enter one of Hinduism's holiest temples for the first time since a landmark court ruling.
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By AFP
Thiruvananthapuram -
Two women on Wednesday entered one of Hinduism's holiest shrines in south India becoming the first to go into Sabarimala temple since the Supreme Court ordered the end of a longstanding ban on women aged between 10 and 50, a state minister said.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
Vijaypat Singhania thought he was keeping his billion-dollar Indian textile empire in the family when he gifted control of the Raymond Group to his son Gautam three years ago.
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By AFP
Srinagar -
The most deadly year in a decade has left Indian-controlled Kashmir facing a grim future with militant groups and the New Delhi government digging in for an even fiercer battle in 2019, experts say.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
Indian navy divers on Sunday launched an operation to find 15 men trapped for more than two weeks in a flooded "rat-hole" coal mine in remote northeast India, police said.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
India will send a three-member team into orbit for up to a week when it launches its first manned space mission expected in 2022, the government announced Friday. Indian ministers approved $1.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
Indian police arrested on Friday 126 people working for a allegedly fake call centre making up to $50,000 a day by duping US citizens, officials said.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
Three newly elected Indian state governments have waived up to $8.6 billion in farm loans in a bid by Rahul Gandhi's main opposition Congress party to boost support ahead of 2019 elections.
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By AFP
Srinagar -
Indian authorities locked down parts of restive Kashmir on Monday as police fired tear gas at protesters defying a curfew to march against the shooting death of seven civilians.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
A veteran Indian politician was given a life sentence on Monday over anti-Sikh riots in 1984 that killed nearly 3,000 people following the assassination of then-premier Indira Gandhi.
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Construction worker taking a break on the 12th floor.
Sun hides behind clouds while reflecting light. Trees helplessly stand in and witness the glory of mother nature. The snap was taken in a village of Tripura, India
A banner, mandatory to be displayed in government schools where universal education for junior primary level is available. In a banner at school of Tripura, along with the slogan of universal education, solidarity to the Indian Constitution is displayed.
Young girls such as this one have to deal with attitudes toward gender that focus on the value of boys. Niyati Bane
In Delhi, slow speeds and idling vehicles produce, per trip, 4 to 8 times more pollutants and consume more carbon footprint fuels, than free flowing traffic. Nomad
2015. St. Jude Childcare Centre. Mumbai, India
Construction workers taking a break.
A construction worker spots me taking his photo. Mumbai, India.
India heat wave 2015, with 48 degrees C in Telangana's Khammam, + 6 degrees C above normal. ClimateState
Some people are saying banks sorely need more direct transfer of subsidies, as well as banking products catering for the needs of the urban and rural poor, to get more people to use their accounts. World Business
Mumbai is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 23.9 million. Jasvipul Chawla (CC BY-SA 2.0)
A woman shows off her scar showing she donated her kidney. She was supposed to be paid about $4,000 but has never received her money. Al Jazeera English
Making sex selective abortions a murder charge will only increase illegal abortions and also make access to safe abortion difficult for women, who already do not have many choices regarding their own reproductive rights. World Bank
2015. St. Jude Childcare Centre. Mumbai, India
Rainbow: Photo is taken from a rooftop of a sub division town of Tripura, India
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Women folk of a village in Tripura, India are working in a jute field.
The Dongria Kondh and their supporters have
won a momentous victory. ©Survival
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