India

India, China hold new talks after deadly border flare-up

Jul 24, 2020 08:42

Diplomats from India and China hold another round of talks over rising tensions at their contested border.
Pakistan says India's shelling of Kashmir on the rise

Jul 24, 2020 01:22

Pakistan's military says there has been an uptick in firing across the Line of Control (LoC) - the informal border that separates Pakistan and India-controlled Kashmir - at a time of heightened diplomatic tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
Floods ravage villages in northeastern India, killing at least 87

Jul 23, 2020 01:49

Monsoon floods have swamped villages in India's eastern Bihar and northeastern Assam states, forcing more than a million people into makeshift shelters despite the risk of the coronavirus pandemic.
India cancels historic Hindu pilgrimage as coronavirus cases mount

Jul 23, 2020 00:36

India has cancelled a historic Hindu pilgrimage to a holy cave high in the snow-capped mountains of contested Kashmir for the first time, as cases of the novel coronavirus continued to rise on Wednesday.
Monsoon floods in northeastern India destroy homes, displace millions

Jul 21, 2020 13:05

Monsoon floods in northeastern India have destroyed thousands of hectares of farmland and have killed at least 86 people as of Tuesday, according to media reports.
Is Kashmir a new Palestine in making?

Jul 21, 2020 03:23

Since August 2019 with the scrapping of Kashmir’s special status, New Delhi has started to implement new laws and amend the previous ones with an aim to what it calls ‘mainstreaming Kashmir’ to rest of India, a statement that has been repeatedly questioned by the people of Kashmir.
Floods kill at least 189 people, displace 4 million in India, Nepal

Jul 19, 2020 06:24

Nearly four million people in India’s northeastern state of Assam and neighboring Nepal have been displaced by heavy flooding from monsoon rains, with dozens missing as deaths rose to at least 189, government officials said on Sunday.
New Delhi police failed to protect Muslims in Feb. riots: Minority Commission report

Jul 19, 2020 05:03

The Indian police has failed to protect Muslims campaigning against a new citizenship law during violent riots in New Delhi this year, says a government-appointed commission promoting the rights of India's religious minorities.
India re-imposes lockdowns as coronavirus cases jump

Jul 16, 2020 06:51

The Indian government has re-imposed lockdown restrictions on several states as the number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the country nears the one million mark.
Indian state governments tasked with protecting children from traffickers amid virus threat

Jul 15, 2020 13:36

Village councils and community groups in India have been asked to protect children from traffickers and help authorities identify and rescue missing residents, amid concerns that the coronavirus pandemic is pushing more people into modern slavery.