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, ...
Abe to visit India in December following 'two-plus-two' security talks
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit India in December in the wake of the countries' first "two-plus-two" security talks, his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi said Thursday. Modi disclosed the planned visit to reporters at the beginning of a meeting with Abe in Vladivostok in the ...
Amid tensions with India, Pakistani leader says country would not use nukes first
Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday, amid tensions with archrival India after New Delhi revoked the special status of its part of the disputed Kashmir region. "We both are nuclear-armed countries. If these tensions increase, the world ...
Villagers say they're tired of living dangerously in Kashmir
Villagers in Chakothi in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir said Thursday they are frustrated with living in constant fear of fighting along the heavily militarized frontier in the disputed Himalayan region. Their situation has been exacerbated since India's government, led by the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, imposed a ...
Indian order that stripped Kashmir of its autonomy leaves police dispirited and even disarmed
Without weapons, riot gear or even clean uniforms, a group of police officers sat on the sidewalk outside a storefront in Srinagar, the main city in the Himalayan region of Indian-administered Kashmir, weighing their allegiances. Thirty Kashmiri police officers who spoke on the condition of ...
India Inc. grows impatient as economy dips and Kashmir leaves Modi distracted
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was re-elected in May with a sweeping majority, Indian stock markets jumped to all-time highs as investors anticipated big bang pro-business reforms to revive a flagging economy. But sentiment is souring in the country's boardrooms after a much-anticipated budget in ...
Former Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, a key member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first-term Cabinet, died in a New Delhi hospital Saturday after a prolonged illness. He was 66. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences announced Jaitley's death in a statement, but did ...
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 ...
Kashmir police say thousands have been detained in crackdown in region
At least 2,300 people, mostly young men, have been detained in Indian-administered Kashmir during a security lockdown and communications blackout imposed to curtail unrest after New Delhi stripped the disputed region of statehood, according to top Kashmir police and arrest statistics reviewed by The ...
India's move to carve up Kashmir and curtail its autonomous powers has caused division and anger in parts of the far-flung Himalayan region even as followers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejoice. Since Modi's shock decree last week, protests and celebrations in many towns have ...
Families of Kashmir detainees still don't know where they are, or why they are being held
A week and a half after Indian authorities began detaining hundreds of local leaders and activists in Kashmir, fearing violence after the region's special status was withdrawn, it is unclear in many cases where they are — or even why they were taken away. On ...
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 ...
