India
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In the Indian town of Haldwani in Uttarakhand, clashes erupted between Muslim protesters and police forces on Feb. 8 over demolishing a mosque and madrasa deemed “illegal” by Indian authorities.
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Indian rescuers brought in a new digging machine Saturday to open a vertical shaft to free 41 workers trapped inside a collapsed road tunnel for two weeks, after efforts through another route hit snags just metres from reaching the men.In the latest...
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to forge consensus Saturday on a host of contentious issues from Ukraine to climate change, as G20 leaders hold their annual summit in New Delhi.Divided over Russia's war in Ukraine and gridlocked on finding...
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The latest mission in India's ambitious space programme blasted off Saturday on a voyage towards the centre of the solar system, a week after the country's successful unmanned Moon landing.Aditya-L1 launched shortly before midday, with a live broadca...
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Thousands of Rohingya refugees rallied at camps in Bangladesh on Friday to demand their safe return to Myanmar on the sixth anniversary of the violence that drove them from their homes.Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless m...
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Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab province, emergency services said on Wednesday.Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej riv...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) warned of “contaminated” cough syrup in Iraq. COLD Out, a paracetamol and chlorpheniramine combination syrups, was found to have contaminants. The medicine has diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol.
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China's top diplomat urged India to focus on "common interests" and meet China "halfway" to defuse border tensions between Asia's most populous neighbours, the Chinese foreign ministry said Saturday.Relations between India and China have deteriorated...
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At least 288 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a three-train collision in India, officials said Saturday, the country's deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years.Wreckage debris was piled high at the crash site near Balasore, in the...
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Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has told his Chinese counterpart that military deployments on their disputed Himalayan frontier were undermining relations and called for disengagement to preserve "peace and tranquility".Relations between the tw...
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The United States, Japan, India and Australia expressed concern Friday over the militarisation of waters around China on the heels of a flare-up in tensions between Washington and Beijing.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the foreign ministers...
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi added his voice Friday to calls for the reform of global lenders such as the World Bank, as G20 finance ministers and central bank heads met.The talks in Bengaluru were expected to focus on the continuing damaging...
