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Over 100,000 protesters rally against citizenship law in southern India
Jan 05, 2020 08:46More than 100,000 people have joined a demonstration in southern India to protest a controversial citizenship law that critics say discriminates against the minority Muslim community and undermines the country’s secular constitution.
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Hundreds of Kashmiris protest US assassination of General Qassem Soleimani
Jan 03, 2020 17:17Hundreds of protesters marched in the northern Indian town of Budgam on Friday to condemn the airstrike that martyred the Iranian Quds Force Commander General Qassem Soleimani.
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India says 2 soldiers killed in gunfight with militants in Kashmir
Jan 01, 2020 07:08Two Indian soldiers have reportedly been killed in a gunfight with suspected militants along the restive Line of Control (LoC) that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
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Indians to stage citizenship law protest on New Year’s Eve
Dec 31, 2019 12:32Thousands of Indians are set to ring in the New Year by staging protests against a citizenship law that critics say discriminates against the minority Muslim community and undermines the country’s secular constitution.
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India tightens security for protests after Friday prayers
Dec 27, 2019 12:15Indian authorities stepped up security in major cities on Friday and suspended mobile data services in some places in an effort to maintain order ahead of protests planned against a new citizenship law.
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Six soldiers reportedly killed in heavy border fire exchange in Kashmir
Dec 26, 2019 10:20Troops from India and Pakistan have exchanged heavy fire and mortar shelling along the restive Line of Control (LoC) that divides Kashmir between the two countries, with a total of six soldiers reportedly killed from both sides.
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In Asia Pacific climate crisis is happening now, not in future
Dec 26, 2019 04:48Many big Asian cities, including Mumbai, Shanghai, Bangkok, and Jakarta, are coastal and low-lying, making them susceptible to sea level rise and other extreme weather events.
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Indian Muslims brandish natl. flag, say their protest not anti-India
Dec 24, 2019 04:16Indian Muslims protesting against the country’s recent citizenship law, which they consider discriminatory, have been carrying national flags and copies of the constitution, stressing that their protest rallies are against the biased law, not India.
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Modi’s BJP loses elections in India's Jharkhand state
Dec 24, 2019 02:23Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has lost elections in the eastern state of Jharkhand.
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US will have to end ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran: President Rouhani
Dec 23, 2019 12:30President Hassan Rouhani says the United States will have to stop its policy of exerting “maximum pressure” on Iran, stressing that the current conditions that stem from that policy are only temporary.