India ‘deeply shocked’ after Qatar sentences 8 nationals to death on reported spy charges
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India election 2024: Why isn’t Modi’s BJP fielding candidates in Kashmir?
The absence of the prime minister’s party from the electoral fray in the Muslim-majority region is seen as a sign of its unpopularity.
'Blank vote' arouses controversy in India's general election
NEW DELHI -- The casting of blank ballots is becoming an issue in the general election underway for the lower house of India's parliament, a vote that will determine the political direction of the world's most populous nation for the next five years.
Bangladesh’s China-backed naval dock heightens power play in India’s backyard
In March, a satellite image of the dry dock was released on social media platform X by Damien Symon, a researcher with global intelligence research network The Intel Lab.
Sales of luxury homes triple in India amid ‘mounting appetite’ for bigger houses
Luxury homes – categorised as those priced over 15 million rupees (US$179,650) – made up 21 per cent of all residential units sold across the top seven Indian cities in the first quarter of 2024, according to the report. It was 7 per cent for the same period in 2019.
Fourth Indian arrested and charged in Canada over Sikh activist’s killing
Amandeep Singh, 22, was already in custody for unrelated gun charges before being charged in Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s murder.
Canadian police arrest fourth man for Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s killing
A fourth person has been arrested and charged with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year, Canadian police said on Saturday, in a case that strained diplomatic relations with India.
India’s sacred Ganges River is also one of the world’s most polluted. Will it ever be clean?
Most Indians believe the Ganges, originating from the ice cave of Gaumukh near the temple town of Gangotri, has a self-purifying quality and is seen as a living goddess, supplying water for some 40 per cent of the country’s population.
India court details sexual harassment charges against former wrestling body chief
NEW DELHI — A Delhi court on Friday (May 10) informed the ex-chief of India's wrestling federation, a powerful member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, of charges of sexual harassment and criminal intimidation against him.