'Grand Hindu temple' waits to move into Indian holy city of Ayodhya
Huge slabs of pink Rajasthan stone, carved pillars and bricks from across India are already waiting to form a Hindu temple to be built on the site of a demolished mosque at the center of decades of deadly turbulence. Enough stone to build a small ...
India and Pakistan exchange fire in Kashmir, killing at least nine
Pakistani and Indian soldiers traded fire in disputed Kashmir on Sunday, killing at least nine people on both sides, officials said. The Indian military said Pakistani soldiers targeted an Indian border post and civilian areas along the highly militarized frontier in Kashmir early in the ...
Amnesty chief vows to defy India bid to 'crush' criticism over Kashmir crackdown
Amnesty International's chief vowed Monday that the rights group would not be silenced on raising concerns about Kashmir despite what he called intimidation by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. India's financial crime investigators recently accused Amnesty's local branch of violating foreign exchange regulations through ...
Indian minister says 'no illegal immigrants' will be allowed to stay in Assam
During a visit to northeastern Assam state on Sunday, Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah said his government "will not allow a single illegal immigarant to stay." There, a recent contentious citizenship register sparked uproar from the almost 2 million people who were excluded. The register, ...
India defends Assam citizenship register after U.N. criticism of 'stateless' status of 2 million
India's foreign ministry has again defended a controversial citizenship register in Assam state after criticism from the United Nations, saying the almost 2 million people excluded from the list would not become "stateless." India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — which also runs Assam, in ...
France's Emmanuel Macron had a "frank" exchange with India's Narendra Modi about tensions in divided Kashmir on Thursday, telling him Paris would remain attentive to the rights of people living both sides of the cease-fire line. As tensions soared in the flash-point region, the French ...
At least 4,000 detained since Kashmir was stripped of autonomy, say government sources
Thousands of people have been detained in Indian Kashmir over fears of unrest after New Delhi stripped the region of its autonomy two weeks ago, government sources told AFP. A magistrate speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity said at least 4,000 people were arrested ...
Hundreds chant anti-India slogans in seething Kashmir on eve of Eid
Hundreds of people protested in Kashmir's main city of Srinagar on Sunday against India's decision to curb its autonomy, despite new restrictions on travel and a seventh straight day of communications blackout. Restrictions that had been temporarily eased on Friday and Saturday — allowing some ...
Modi's vision of a Hindu India advances with move to absorb Kashmir
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a Hindu India has leaped forward with his government's decision to subsume Muslim-majority Kashmir into the federal government by eliminating its special status and allowing anyone to buy property and move into the state, raising fears among residents ...
Media and rights groups slam India over communications blackout in Kashmir
India's imposition of an unprecedented communications blackout on Jammu and Kashmir hours before stripping its only Muslim-majority state of special rights in place for decades was sharply criticized Monday by media and rights groups. One senior journalist accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government of humiliating ...
Protests erupt in Indian cities after Muslim man is lynched; Modi says he is 'pained'
Protests were held in several Indian cities on Wednesday following the lynching of a Muslim man last week by a Hindu mob that suspected he was a thief. Increasing anger about the killing in the eastern state of Jharkhand prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling alliance is likely to win a big majority in parliament after a mammoth general election that ended on Sunday, most exit polls showed, a far better showing than expected in recent weeks. Modi faced criticism early on in the ...
