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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a news conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 19, 2024
India's Modi faces test of resilience in 2025 after year of setbacks
Having secured a third term, the prime minister faces a slowing economy with his political standing decidedly weakened.
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani attends the 51st Gems and Jewellery Awards in Jaipur, India, on Nov. 30.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 16, 2024
Extradition of India's Gautam Adani seems unlikely, experts say
Adani Group has called the allegations against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani "baseless" and vowed to seek "all possible legal recourse."
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, in October. India and China reached a border deal for Chinese forces to retreat from disputed territory and for India to resume border patrols.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 15, 2024
How India’s soft power led to a border deal with China
New Delhi played its cards right, adopting a multipronged strategy that led to Beijing withdrawing from disputed territory that could be model for other countries, too.
Workers install solar panels at the Khavda Renewable Energy Park of Adani Green Energy in the village of Khavda, in India, on April 12.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 28, 2024
Adani allegations cast light on barriers to India's ambitious solar drive
India's states are unprepared for a rapid rise in renewable generating capacity, lack adequate transmission infrastructure and storage.
Gautam Adani, whose role as chairman and founder of India's Adani Group has made him one of the world's richest people, in Boston on Oct. 28, 2022.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 25, 2024
Adani charges to test Trump’s desire to keep India in U.S. orbit
The case against Gautam Adani is yet another reminder of the long reach of U.S. law — one that can affect both friends and foes around the world.
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embrace at the White House in 2017.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 7, 2024
Trump victory gives Modi chance to reset India’s image with West
Trump's administration will likely be less stringent in demanding accountability from New Delhi for its alleged involvement in extra-judicial killings in North America.
Flags of the Khalistan separatist movement are seen on Sept. 20, 2023 at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, where Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot and killed in the parking lot three months earlier, in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 4, 2024
Sikh activists see it as freedom. India calls it terrorism.
The cause to carve out a land called Khalistan from Punjab fizzled out decades ago, but the Indian government still frames the movement as a national security threat.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, on Aug. 25, 2019
WORLD / Politics
Oct 31, 2024
Canada-India tensions could escalate cyber threats and hinder immigration
Canada's deepening dispute with India over its alleged campaign of violence against Sikhs in Canada has so far had no immediate impact on trade.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) and Amit Shah, minister of home affairs
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2024
Top India minister authorized crimes in Canada, senior official says
India has rejected Canada’s allegations as "preposterous.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 24, 2024
Xi-Modi breakthrough followed months of pressure from India's CEOs
Indian businesses have increased pressure this year on Narendra Modi’s government to relax the restrictions on China.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 24, 2024
Germany is courting India as ties with China sour: What to watch
The trip to India comes at a crucial time for Germany as it struggles to revive its economy, which has been buffeted by the war in Ukraine and competition from China.
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a 56-year-old dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, speaks during an interview in New York on Oct. 18.  The U.S. Justice Department alleges that an Indian intelligence official had directed plans to assassinate Pannun, a Sikh separatist, last year.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2024
U.S. pressures India for accountability over Sikh separatist murder plot
Washington wants a speedy resolution of the matter, which has led to a U.S. indictment of a former Indian intelligence official over the foiled plot.
Indian soldiers disembark from a military transport plane at a forward airbase in Leh, in the Ladakh region, on Sept. 15, 2020.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 22, 2024
China and India end border impasse ahead of likely Xi-Modi meet
Relations between China and India have been frozen since June 2020 following clashes between soldiers along the disputed Himalayan border.
A street in Zakir Nagar, a Muslim neighborhood in New Delhi, last month.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 19, 2024
In Modi's Delhi, Indian Muslims segregate to seek security
There is no official data on segregation in India, but it appears to be increasing among Muslims in recent years due to rising Islamophobia.
Moninder Singh, a spokesperson for BC Gurdwara council, speaks at a news conference at the site of a 2023 murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, in May.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 19, 2024
Warned by police, some of Canada's Sikhs feel threatened by India
The Canadian police said this week it has communicated more than a dozen threats to people who are advocating for Sikh separatism.
Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister (center) Melanie Joly, Canada's foreign minister (left) and Dominic LeBlanc, Canada's public safety, democratic institutions and intergovernmental affairs minister, during a news conference in Ottawa on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 17, 2024
Trudeau describes failed efforts at quiet diplomacy with Modi
Canada is not looking to provoke a fight with India and has repeatedly tried to give "off ramps” that have been rejected, Justin Trudeau said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) welcomes Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau upon his arrival at the Group of 20 Summit in New Delhi on Sept. 9, 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 16, 2024
Canada-India rift seen as a momentary gain for Modi and Trudeau
The divide could bolster Narendra Modi's image as a hawk on national security while taking the spotlight off of Justin Trudeau reportedly being asked to step down.
Omar Abdullah (center), leader of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference party, arrives to address the media outside his residence in Srinagar on Tuesday, after his election win in Indian-administered Kashmir.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 9, 2024
Indian Kashmir elects first regional government in a decade
Voters backed opposition parties to lead the Muslim-majority territory's regional assembly in the first local elections since 2014.
Indian soldiers participate in a mock drill exercise in New Delhi in 2016. The transfer of Indian munitions to support Ukraine's defense against Russia has occurred for more than a year, according to the sources and customs data.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 19, 2024
Ammunition from India enters Ukraine, raising Russian ire
The transfer of munitions to support Ukraine's defense against Russia has occurred for more than a year, according to the sources and the customs data.
Rakesh Tomar (right), an activist and founder of Hindu right-wing group Rudra Sena, speaks to people in Dehradun, the capital of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, on Aug. 6.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 6, 2024
India's far-right Hindus seek to drive Muslims out of 'holy land'
Much of the hatred last year was fueled by "love-jihad" conspiracies, claiming predatory Muslim men wanted to seduce Hindu women to convert them.

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