On my recent trip to India, just before the world went into lockdown and disarray, Shruti Rajagopalan and I visited Amit Varma’s studio in Delhi to record an episode of his podcast, The Seen and the Unseen. Our paper, Premature Imitation and...
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Pakistan is a jihadist entity, not a friend or ally of the United States. The sham alliance must be ended. “India seeks extradition from Pakistan of suspected Mumbai attack mastermind,” by Sanjeev Miglani, Reuters, June 28, 2020: NEW...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Last week, security forces in Jammu and Kashmir were placed on high alert after over 200 youths from the valley with Pakistani visas were reported missing. Jammu and Kashmir's Director General of Police Dilbag Singh has accused...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): The border dispute with China in the Galwan sector of Ladakh and subsequent military build-up on both the sides has led India to retaliate against Beijing on the economic front as New Delhi banned 59 Chinese apps on Monday and...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): In May, India detained two officials at the High Commission of Pakistan in New Delhi on suspicion of espionage-related activities. Following their detention, New Delhi asked Islamabad to reduce the strength of its diplomatic...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): The tribals in the interiors of India’s central Chhattisgarh state earn their livelihood by plucking leaves from the government-owned plantation of tendu trees, a flowering tree widely used in India to wrap hand-rolled...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): On Monday, four heavily armed gunmen stormed into the Karachi Stock Exchange and killed three people before being shot dead. The insurgent Baloch Liberation Army group claimed responsibility for the attack.
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Pakistan recently received $1billion from the World Bank and and $500 million from the Asian Development Bank to help the country in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
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A growing number of internet service providers in India have started to block their subscribers from accessing TikTok a day after New Delhi banned the popular short-video app and 58 other services in the world’s second largest internet market...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): On 26 November 2008, India's financial capital Mumbai witnessed a terrorist attack, which has since then been considered one of the deadliest in the Indian history. As many as 166 people were killed, while over 300 were injured.
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New Delhi (Sputnik): After the unprecedented face-off between Indian and Chinese armies in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley on 15 June, both New Delhi and Beijing have been trying to diffuse tensions at the border through army-to-army engagements and...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Ever since the global crude oil prices crashed in March, when the Oil Producing and Exporting Countries Plus (OPEC+) failed to agree on production cuts in the wake of the COVID-19 spread, India’s principal opposition party...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Controversy has surrounded the made-in-India ventilators that were ordered by the central government from an Indian start-up under the dedicated COVID-19 fund. Questions have been raised over their efficiency as a substitute to...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Ever since the pandemic scare pushed humans into the confinement of their houses, nature has been dazzling in all of its glory. Flamingoes, cloud cuckoos and dolphins have already been spotted again in India, and now a rather...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s most prominent Animal Cruelty prevention law was enacted in 1960 and has since been strengthened. But from killing elephant by feeding them with explosive-laced fruit to various incidents of stray dog torture, the...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): India and China are engaged in massive deployments of troops, artillery, and heavy vehicles in the Ladakh region, including the Depsang Plains – very close to the Karakoram Pass. While the Indian Army has claimed that there...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): On 26 June, three terrorists were killed following an encounter with security forces in India's Kashmir Valley. Since April, the armed forces, along with the local police, have stepped up counter- terror operations in the...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): On 15 June, 20 Indian army personnel were killed in a violent skirmish with Chinese troops in the Galvan valley in Ladakh. India’s principal opposition, Congress, has been demanding the Indian government clarify what's...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Spokesman for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, Anurag Srivastava, rejected what he called “exaggerated and untenable” Chinese claims of sovereignty over the Galwan Valley, which saw Indian and Chinese border troops...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): In 2014, the UN General Assembly adopted an India-led resolution declaring 21 June the International Day of Yoga, recognising that “yoga provides a holistic approach to health and well-being”. Since 2015, Prime Minister...
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