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India’s guarded stimulus unlikely to revive Indian growth
NEW DELHI: India’s new federal budget is unlikely to drag Asia’s third- biggest economy out of its worst slowdown in more than a decade as the government has proposed only moderate spending increases and small cuts in personal taxes, economists
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Four months after ‘Howdy, Modi!’, some Indians abroad protest over citizenship law
BENGALURU/MUMBAI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi got a thunderous reception when he addressed a crowd of more than 50,000 Indian-Americans in a stadium in the US city of Houston last September. But four months after the event dubbed “Howdy Modi!,”
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Senior police officer arrested in Kashmir on suspicion of aiding militants
SRINAGAR: A senior police officer has been arrested in Indian Kashmir and accused of aiding militants after he was found driving two suspected insurgents toward Jammu, Kashmir’s chief of police told reporters yesterday. The Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, claimed by both
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India’s Supreme Court- Kashmir internet shutdown unconstitutional
India’s Supreme Court said today that shutting down the internet in the disputed region of Kashmir was unconstitutional, in a rebuke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The government imposed a communications lockdown in August after it withdrew the Muslim
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One woman reports a rape every 15 minutes in India
One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released yesterday, underlining its dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female. The highly publicised gang
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India grants diplomats access to restive Kashmir for the first time in months
Foreign diplomats visited India-ruled Kashmir today for the first time since New Delhi stripped the region of special status in August, although some European nations and others declined the invite after being refused permission to travel independently. India’s portion of
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What happened to India?
It’s a question I hear increasingly these days. International news media report on repression in Kashmir, mounting Hindu chauvinism, widespread protests against new laws, assaults on women, and more. The India the world once celebrated ― the world’s fastest-growing free-market
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India celebrates New Year’s Eve with protests against citizenship law
NEW DELHI: Thousands of Indians ushered in the New Year by demonstrating against a citizenship law despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attempts to dampen protests that have run for nearly three weeks. The protests have rocked India since Dec 12,
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India tightens security for protests after Friday prayers
Indian authorities stepped up security in major cities today and mobile data services were suspended in some places ahead of protests against a new citizenship law. At least 25 people have been killed in protests across the country since the
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Fury grows after protest deaths in Indian Muslim neighbourhood
Zaheer Ahmed had just returned home from work in northern India last Friday afternoon and stepped out for a smoke before lunch. Minutes later, he was dead, shot in the head. His death, and the killing by gunfire of four
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