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US cannot dictate what India should do on Iranian port: Envoy
Jul 26, 2020 00:56India’s Ambassador to Tehran Gaddam Dharmendra has reiterated that New Delhi would not be dictated by the US how it should cooperate with Iran on a key port located southeast of the country.
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India, China agree on ‘complete disengagement of troops' from border region
Jul 25, 2020 07:58India and China have agreed on a fast withdrawal of troops from across a disputed border area in the western Himalayas that was the scene of a deadly clash last month.
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India, China hold new talks after deadly border flare-up
Jul 24, 2020 08:42Diplomats from India and China hold another round of talks over rising tensions at their contested border.
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Pakistan says India's shelling of Kashmir on the rise
Jul 24, 2020 01:22Pakistan'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.
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Floods ravage villages in northeastern India, killing at least 87
Jul 23, 2020 01:49Monsoon 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.
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India cancels historic Hindu pilgrimage as coronavirus cases mount
Jul 23, 2020 00:36India 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.
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Monsoon floods in northeastern India destroy homes, displace millions
Jul 21, 2020 13:05Monsoon 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.
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Is Kashmir a new Palestine in making?
Jul 21, 2020 03:23Since 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.
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World population in 2100 could be two billion below UN projections
Jul 20, 2020 13:54According to a major study published recently that foresees new global power alignments shaped by declining fertility rates and greying populations, the Earth will be home to 8.8 billion souls in 2100, two billion fewer than current UN projections.
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Floods kill at least 189 people, displace 4 million in India, Nepal
Jul 19, 2020 06:24Nearly 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.