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September 2, 2021 at 3:20 am

EXPLAINER: Resistance leader’s death deepens Kashmir strife VIEW

Indian authorities have curbed public movement and cut off communications in disputed Kashmir after the death of a top separatist leader that highlights the turmoil...

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August 31, 2021 at 11:16 pm

India schools cautiously reopen even as COVID warnings grow VIEW

More students in India will be able to step inside a classroom for the first time in nearly 18 months, as authorities have given the...

July 25, 2021 at 9:36 pm

Pandemic leaves Indians mired in massive medical debts VIEW

NEW DELHI (AP) — As coronavirus cases ravaged India this spring, Anil Sharma visited his 24-year-old son Saurav at a private hospital in northwest New...

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July 20, 2021 at 6:41 am

Protests erupt in India’s Parliament over spyware scandal VIEW

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Parliament erupted in protests on Tuesday as opposition lawmakers accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of using military-grade spyware to...

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FILE – In this April 24, 2021, file photo, multiple funeral pyres of those who died of COVID-19 burn at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for the mass cremation of coronavirus victims, in New Delhi, India. India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy, according to the most comprehensive research yet on the ravages of the virus in the south Asian country. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File) IED102 IED102

July 19, 2021 at 10:14 pm

India’s pandemic death toll could be in the millions VIEW

Most experts believe India's official toll of more than 414,000 dead is a vast undercount, but the government has dismissed those concerns as exaggerated and...

July 14, 2021 at 9:21 pm

India internet law adds to fears over online speech, privacy VIEW

NEW DELHI (AP) — It began in February with a tweet by pop star Rihanna that sparked widespread condemnation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...

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July 5, 2021 at 6:49 am

Indian activist Stan Swamy, jailed under terror law, dies

NEW DELHI (AP) — Father Stan Swamy, a jailed Jesuit priest and longtime Indian tribal rights activist, died Monday in the western Indian city of...

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June 18, 2021 at 9:18 am

AP Interview: India says it hopes to resume vaccine exports

NEW DELHI (AP) — India, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, wants to resume exports of coronavirus jabs but can’t do so until its domestic...

June 11, 2021 at 9:55 pm

Pandemic relapse spells trouble for India’s middle class VIEW

NEW DELHI (AP) — Ram Babu moved from his village to the Indian capital New Delhi in 1980, to clean cars. Soon, he learned to...

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May 31, 2021 at 5:51 am

Indian economy, hit by COVID-19, shrinks by 7.3% in 2020-21

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s economy, pummeled by the coronavirus pandemic, contracted by 7.3% in the 2020-21 financial year, just before the country was hit...

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