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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a media briefing in New Delhi where they also signed the S-400 air defense missile system deal. Photo: AFP / Mikhael Klimentyev / Sputnik

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India’s missile deal with Russia unlikely to sour US relations

by Saikat Datta October 6, 2018February 18, 2020

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India, South Asia

Religious tensions rise after court ruling on mosque land

by Saurav Datta October 5, 2018February 18, 2020

Portrait of Young angry men isolated on red wall. Photo: iStock

India, South Asia

Are Indian liberals becoming hypocritically intolerant?

by Sagarneel Sinha October 5, 2018October 5, 2018

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the second day of the three-day Pravasi Bhartiya Divas summit at the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on January 8, 2015. Photo: AFP

India, South Asia

Modi appropriates Mahatma Gandhi by separating from his ideas

by Shivam Vij October 4, 2018

The Indian Army's Special Forces deployed in counterinsurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir. Photo: Wikipedia

China, India, Pakistan, South Asia

Modi government politicized surgical strikes but did little for soldiers

by Prakash Katoch October 4, 2018

A Hindu holy man at a kiosk showcasing the ArdhKumbh Fair in New Delhi. Photo: AFP

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India breaks into top 100 of UN’s e-governance ranking

by Angarika Gogoi October 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Ibrahim Mohamed Solih (right) and Maldives' self-exiled former president Mohamed Nasheed (left) attend a meeting at Mount Lavinia, a suburb of Colombo, on August 27, 2018. Solih has since been elected president of Maldives. Photo: AFP / Ishara S Kodikara

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Tightrope walk for incoming Maldivian president

by Gunjan Singh October 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Students at Banaras Hindu University protest against a case of sexual harassment at the campus. Photo: Facebook

India, Middle East, South Asia

Unrest and ideological clashes on rise at north Indian universities

by Kanchan Srivastava October 2, 2018February 18, 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin (second right), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left), the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma (left, in foreground) and Brazilian President Michel Temer (right, in foreground) talk during 2016's BRICS summit in Goa. Photo: AFP / Mikhail Metzel

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New Delhi sees upcoming India-Russia summit as highly significant

by Manoj Kumar Mishra October 2, 2018

Filipino activist Joan Carling has won the UN's highest environmental award. Photo: Twitter

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Filipina ‘terrorist’ given UN’s highest environmental award

by Asia Times staff September 30, 2018February 18, 2020

The Supreme Court of India ruled by a majority of 4-1 that the controversial Aadhaar digital identification project is constitutionally valid. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

India, South Asia, World

India’s Supreme Court upholds digital identity program with a dissenting note

by Saikat Datta September 26, 2018February 18, 2020

Rivalry between India and Pakistan sometimes gets un-neighborly. Illustration: iStock

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Pakistan-India rift ‘the fault of the stars’

by Imad Zafar September 24, 2018

India opted to buy 36 of the Rafale French-made fighter aircraft. The deal is now mired in a massive controversy. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Arnaud Gaillard

France, India, South Asia, World

Hollande drops a Rafale bomb on India

by Saikat Datta September 23, 2018February 18, 2020

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje (left) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a function in March 2018. Photo: AFP/ NurPhoto

India, South Asia

BJP losing its way in the desert as key election test looms

by Srinand Jha September 21, 2018February 18, 2020

Congress President Rahul Ghandi. Photo: AFP

India, South Asia

Congress ‘unwanted’ in Uttar Pradesh’s grand alliance

by Kanchan Srivastava September 20, 2018February 18, 2020

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the second day of the three-day Pravasi Bhartiya Divas summit at the Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on January 8, 2015. Photo: AFP

India, South Asia, World

Under Modi, day to celebrate Indian origin citizens gets Hindutva agenda

by Rejimon Kuttappan September 18, 2018February 18, 2020

Left Unity students of Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University celebrate their victory against a right-wing student organization in the 2018 student elections. Photo: Samim Asgor Ali

India, South Asia

BJP’s student wing yet to breach ‘left bastion’ JNU

by Muntaha Amin September 18, 2018February 18, 2020

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India has no right to pretend it is an inclusive democracy

by Bhim Bhurtel September 18, 2018

Yogi Adityanath recites the oath as the new chief minister in Lucknow in 2017. Photo: REUTERS

India, Iran, Middle East, Nepal, South Asia

Bisht knows how to make a headline, but the news isn’t good

by Kanchan Srivastava September 17, 2018February 18, 2020

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum in January in Davos, Switzerland. Photo: AFP/ Fabrice Coffrini

India, South Asia, World

Indian economy’s reality will haunt Modi

by Mohan Guruswamy September 13, 2018September 13, 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2018. Photo: AFP/Prakash Singh

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Modi takes election year gamble on prices of fuel, cooking gas

by Madhavan Narayanan September 13, 2018February 18, 2020

Volunteers and rescue personnel evacuate local residents in an Indian Navy boat from a residential area in Aluva, Kerala, on August 17, 2018. Photo: AFP, Times of India/ RK Sreejith.

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India should accept disaster assistance

by Shashi Tharoor September 13, 2018

Members of the upper-caste and Other Backward Class groups take part in a strike over a legislative amendment to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act in Allahabad on Sept. 6, 2018. Photo: AFP

India, South Asia

Anger grows with ruling party over amendment to caste law

by Kanchan Srivastava September 11, 2018February 18, 2020

Political strategist Prashant Kishor (left) in a file photo with former Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Photo: AFP /Chandan Khanna

India, South Asia, World

Kishor may now be the master of his own political strategy

by Shivam Vij September 10, 2018February 18, 2020

Frpm left: Myanmar First Lady Cho Cho, Nepal First Lady Radhika Shakya, Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, Myanmar President Win Myint, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bhutanese Chief Justice Dasho Tshering Wangchuk, and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pose for a group photo during the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit in Kathmandu on August 31, 2018. Photo: / AFP / Pool / Navesh Chitrakar

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Seven-nation BIMSTEC on road to rejuvenation

by S K Chatterji September 10, 2018

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao (left) and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in March this year. Photo: AFP/The Times of India

India, South Asia

Tacit alliance emerges in Telangana ahead of 2019 elections

by TS Sudhir September 7, 2018February 18, 2020

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: Reuters/Edgar Su

India, South Asia

Why Indian economic growth is back at 8%

by Vivek Kaul September 7, 2018

A member of the National Students Union of India, the student wing of India's opposition Congress party, holds a placard during a demonstration against the increase in lawlessness and unemployment in India under the the ruling alliance led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Photo: AFP

India, South Asia

BJP’s misadventures push Uttar Pradesh into worst ever job crisis

by Kanchan Srivastava September 6, 2018February 18, 2020

Film and Television Institute of India is one of the top colleges in India. Photo: Facebook

India, South Asia

Liberal educational institutes still at loggerheads with Modi govt

by Varsha Torgalkar September 5, 2018February 18, 2020

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China’s long game did not end at Doklam

by Bhim Bhurtel September 4, 2018