BENGALURU – India said on Wednesday it will launch its second lunar mission in mid-July, as it moves to consolidate its status as a leader in space technology by achieving a controlled landing on the moon. The mission, if successful, would make India only the fourth country behind […]
NEW DELHI – India’s top ranking economic advisory council will examine former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian’s research findings that the country’s economic growth has been overstated, the government said in a statement on Wednesday. India will issue ‘point-to-point’ rebuttal on the issue in due course, the government […]
KOLKATA, India – Indian police fired tear gas in Kolkata on Wednesday to disperse thousands of members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party protesting over rising political violence, party leaders and witnesses said. Clashes between supporters of the Hindu nationalist BJP and a regional party that governs West […]
NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi will avoid flying over Pakistan during an official trip to central Asia on Thursday, the foreign ministry said, even though Pakistan has granted overflight access. Pakistan closed its airspace in February after a suicide attack by a Pakistan-based militant group in […]
MOSCOW – Russian police detained more than 400 people, including opposition politician Alexei Navalny, at a protest in Moscow on Wednesday calling for punishment for police officers involved in the alleged framing of a journalist. Police abruptly dropped drug charges a day earlier against investigative journalist Ivan Golunov, […]
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected in Tehran on Wednesday for a rare diplomatic mission, hoping to ease tensions between the Islamic republic and Tokyo’s key ally Washington. The first Japanese prime minister to visit Iran in 41 years, Abe is expected to arrive in Tehran at […]
As Gajanand Dukre parks the water tanker in a drought-stricken Indian village, dozens of locals — mostly women in saris — come running with jerry cans, buckets and stainless steel pots. Over the next two hours Dukre helps them empty the 12,000-litre (3,170-gallon) tank, providing a lifeline to […]
NEW DELHI – The Indian government on Tuesday defended its methodology of calculating the country’s economic growth, countering the argument of a former top economic advisor who said that Asia’s third-largest economy might be overestimating its growth rate. India objectively measures the contribution of various sectors in the […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump took a public stance against the use of CIA informants to spy on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday, saying it would not happen on his watch and possibly taking away a valuable tool of the U.S. intelligence community. Trump’s […]
LUCKNOW, India — Four people returning from a Hindu pilgrimage have died while traveling in a non-air-conditioned coach on an Indian train during a summer heat wave. Temperatures during the day Tuesday had soared to 48 Celsius (118 Fahrenheit). Railway official Manoj Kumar says the four, who were […]
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