President-elect Joe Biden seeks to unite nation with victory speech

By CNN,

President-elect Joe Biden addressed a deeply divided nation Saturday night, turning to the challenges ahead by grounding his victory speech in the spi...

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Death toll from Indian floods reaches 147, hundreds of thousands evacuated

By Reuters,

The death toll from floods in the Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra rose to 147, state authorities said on Sunday, as rescue teams ra...

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900M voters expected to take part in India election, world’s biggest exercise

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Polls opened Thursday in the first phase of the India election, the world’s largest democratic exercise. The India election is seen as a referend...

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India’s Modi rides nationalist fervor ahead of election starting on Thursday

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India’s prime minister is rallying his nationalist base as the world’s biggest democracy begins a general election on Thursday, but it has become ...

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Facebook removes accounts linked to Indian political parties, Pakistan’s military

By VOA,

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts and pages linked to Indian political parties or the Pakistani military for what the company described as "co...

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Facebook deletes accounts linked to India’s Congress party, Pakistan military

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Facebook has deleted 712 accounts and 390 pages in India and Pakistan for “inauthentic behavior”, it said on Monday, many of them linked to India�...

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Indian billionaire arrested in London over alleged $2B fraud

By CNN,

UK police have arrested India's billionaire diamond dealer Nirav Modi in London over his alleged involvement in a bank fraud that could be worth $2 bi...

Bank Fraud , India , Nirav Modi

India’s Congress to scrap law punishing Muslim men for instant divorce if voted back to power

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India’s main opposition Congress party said on Thursday it would scrap a decree passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government prescribing ja...

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Modi Plans Job Quotas for Less Well-Off Indians as Election Nears

By VOA,

India's cabinet on Monday backed proposals to reserve 10 percent of government jobs for Indians outside the higher income brackets, a plan the main op...

India prepares to inaugurate the world’s tallest statue

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India is set to unveil the world's tallest statue next week, the towering figure of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a popular political and social leader, w...

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Indian IT sector warns against U.S. visa bill

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India's IT lobby warned on Tuesday that a bill before the U.S. Congress aimed at imposing tougher visa rules unfairly targets some of its members and ...

World leaders launch bid for climate breakthrough in Paris

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World leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back the earth's rising temperatures, with French President Francois Hollande saying the...