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17 Members of Same Indian Family Found Dead In Floods

Seventeen members of the same Indian family were found dead Wednesday as floodwaters receded from a village in Gujarat,...

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Eight More Dead In India’s Worsening Monsoon Floods

Worsening floods killed another eight people in 24 hours in India's Gujarat state as rescue teams raced Tuesday to...

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Seven Killed As India Floods Death Toll Rises To 83

The death toll from severe monsoon flooding across India rose to at least 83 with seven more fatalities confirmed in...

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UN Envoy Tells India To Get A Sense of Humour Over Modi Meme

Comedian and UN ambassador Lilly Singh has called on the Indian government to be more tolerant of satire after a...

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UN Envoy Lilly Singh Calls On India To Show Comic Tolerance

Comic and UN ambassador Lilly Singh has called on the Indian government to be more tolerant of satire after a popular...

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Death Toll Climbs From India’s Monsoon Floods

The death toll from severe monsoon flooding across India has risen to at least 76, officials said Monday, with eight...

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India To Get Head of State From Lowest Caste

India's next president will emerge from the Dalit caste -- a community so marginalised they were once known as...

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Indian Police File Case Over ‘insulting’ Modi Meme

Indian police have filed a defamation case against a group of comedians accused of insulting Prime Minister Narendra...

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Indian Censors Want ‘cow’, ‘Hindu’ Beeped In Film

Indian censors have refused to certify a documentary film featuring Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen unless...

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Indian Leaders Condemn Deadly Attack On Hindu Pilgrims

Indian leaders and Kashmiri separatists united Tuesday to condemn an attack on a bus that killed seven Hindu pilgrims...

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Militants Kill Six Hindu Pilgrims

Militants killed six Hindu pilgrims and wounded 14 others Monday in Indian-administered Kashmir, police told AFP, after...

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Indian PM’s Tea Stall To Become Tourist Shrine

Now it is rusting hulk in a small town railway station, but Indian authorities want the stall where Prime Minister...

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India’s Modi Condemns Killings In Name of Cow Worship

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condemned murder in the name of protecting cows, which are worshipped...

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Modi, In Washington, Hails ‘growing Convergence’ of US-India Interests

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the increasing "convergence" of US-Indian interests and values, as he...

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India’s Modi In Washington For ‘no Frills’ Trump Meet

India's leader Narendra Modi arrived in the US for his first meeting Monday with President Donald Trump, seeking to...

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India’s Modi Heads To Washington For ‘no Frills’ Trump Meet

India's leader heads to the US this weekend for his first meeting with President Donald Trump, seeking to build on...

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Indian Teenager Tops Exams, Eschews College To Become Monk

An Indian teenager who topped his state in his final exams renounced worldly pleasures and committed to the austere...

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Arundhati Roy Releases First Novel In 20 Years

Arundhati Roy's eagerly-awaited second novel goes on sale Tuesday, two decades after her prize-winning debut "The God...

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India’s Annual Growth Slows To 7.1%

India's growth slowed to 7.1 percent last year, according to official data released Wednesday, weaker than analysts...