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India summons Pakistan envoy, vows revenge after Kashmir bombing
Feb 15, 2019 09:40India has summoned Islamabad’s ambassador after a Pakistani-based militant group took responsibility for a deadly car bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
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Car bomb attack on Indian military convoy kills dozens in Kashmir
Feb 15, 2019 04:29At least 44 Indian paramilitary personnel have been killed and dozens more wounded after a bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into a military convoy in restive Kashmir.
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China, India clash over PM Modi's visit to disputed state
Feb 10, 2019 03:53China has condemned a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a disputed border region which triggered a war between the nuclear-armed neighbors in 1962.
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India’s unemployment rate hit 45-year high in 2017/18: Report
Jan 31, 2019 08:20An official survey that has been withheld by the government shows India’s unemployment rate rose to a 45-year high during 2017-2018, the Business Standard newspaper reported on Thursday, delivering a blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi just months before what is expected to be closely-fought general elections.
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‘Mumbai-Chabahar-Bandar Abbas shipping line launched’
Jan 27, 2019 14:11Provincial Director-General of the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran (PMOI) in Sistan-e Balouchestan Province, Behrouz Aqaei announced that a shipping line has launched work between Mumbai Port in India and Chabahar and Bandar Abbas ports in Southern Iran amid the US sanctions.
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PM Modi faces ouster amid rural anger, Muslim discontent
Jan 20, 2019 09:07Hundreds of thousands of people have joined a massive demonstration in India to rally support for the ouster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the upcoming general elections.
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Hundreds of Rohingya families flee India for fear of deportation, persecution
Jan 19, 2019 11:38Some 2,000 Rohingya Muslims, who had fled to India from death and violence in Myanmar, have reportedly left the South Asian country too, fearing continued harassment there and possible deportation.
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The vital isolation of indigenous groups
Jan 19, 2019 00:09After the American missionary John Allen Chau ignored successive warnings, the isolated Sentinelese people killed him. But the threat the world's isolated tribes face is far from neutralized, as some have taken Chau’s death as an opportunity to argue that policies protecting them should be reversed.
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Hundreds of Rohingya families flee India for fear of deportation, persecution
Jan 17, 2019 15:08Some 2,000 Rohingya Muslims, who had fled to India from death and violence in Myanmar, have reportedly left the South Asian country too, fearing continued harassment there and possible deportation.
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Emirati boss cages Asian migrant workers ‘until they supported The Whites’: Report
Jan 13, 2019 03:25An Emirati man has reportedly confined a number of Asian migrant workers inside in a bird cage, and forced them to declare support for the United Arab Emirates national football team, nicknamed The Whites, during the 17th edition of the AFC Asian Cup in order to be set free.