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Caste and Tamil nationalism in the Indian election

Karim Raslan
Updated as of Feb 16 05:55 PM

With Indian elections approaching, a Tamil man in India is concerned about attempts to polarise the population along caste lines. Read more »

At least 99 dead after consuming toxic alcohol in India

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 12 12:20 AM

At least 99 people have died and scores have been hospitalized in northern India after drinking toxic alcohol, triggering a crackdown against bootleggers, officials said Monday. Read more »

Facebook expanding fact-checking in India before election

Reuters
Posted at Feb 11 04:54 PM

Facebook has added 5 new partners including the India Today Group, a leading local media house, to its fact-checker network taking the total number of such partners to 7, Menlo Park, California-based Facebook said in a statement. Read more »

Nude protest, black flags greet Indian premier

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 09 11:48 PM

A second day of protests on Saturday tainted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to northeast India where proposals to change a nationality law have sparked outrage. Read more »

Stray cows add to Modi's farmer woes as Indian election looms

Rajendra Jadhav and Mayank Bhardwaj, Reuters
Posted at Feb 06 10:55 AM

While stray cows ambling around towns and villages have always been a feature of life in rural India, farmers say their number has increased sharply in recent years to the extent that they have become a menace, and blame the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government. Read more »

FACT CHECK: No, India did not declare a holiday in honor of Duterte's visit

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 31 07:12 PM

A post which has been shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook claims that India declared a holiday in honor of a visit from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Read more »

India convicts militants over bomb attacks that killed 88

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 28 10:21 PM

Fourteen militants from an armed separatist group were found guilty Monday of orchestrating a coordinated bomb attack in India's northeast in 2008 that killed 88 people and wounded hundreds more. Read more »

Indian kills, cuts up and flushes friend down toilet

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 24 10:33 PM

The grisly crime was discovered when residents at an apartment complex in Mumbai found chunks of flesh blocking their drains. Read more »

WhatsApp limits message forwarding to fight 'fake news'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 22 08:22 AM

That decision followed threats by the Indian government to take action after crazed mobs butchered more than 20 people accused of child kidnapping and other crimes in viral, widely-circulated WhatsApp messages. Read more »

Half a million attend rally against India's Modi: police

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 19 10:16 PM

India's opposition parties drew supporters to Kolkata's streets for the largest show of force yet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a national election looms. Read more »

India's richest man to battle Amazon, Walmart in e-commerce

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 18 09:43 PM

MUMBAI - Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani announced details of a new online shopping platform Friday that will see his oil-to-telecoms conglomerate take on Amazon and Walmart in India's burgeoning e-commerce market.   Read more »

Millions in India gather for world's largest religious event

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 15 07:12 AM

The largest religious gathering anywhere on earth gets under way Tuesday, with tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims congregating in India to bathe in sacred rivers for the Kumbh Mela. Read more »

PAL to fly to Phnom Penh, Hanoi, New Delhi

Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 08 03:14 PM

The flag carrier recently took deliver of Airbus A350 and 321neo jets as it narrowed its losses in the third quarter of 2018. It also secured a a 4 star rating from industry group Skytrax the first for a Filipino airline. Read more »

Thailand axe coach Rajevac after Asian Cup horror show

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 07 06:38 PM

Thailand have fired coach Milovan Rajevac following a humiliating 4-1 thrashing by India in their opening Asian Cup game at the weekend. Read more »

Indian father and son battle for billion-dollar empire

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 02 01:46 PM

Vijaypat Singhania thought he was keeping his billion-dollar Indian textile empire in the family when he gifted control of the Raymond Group to his son Gautam 3 years ago. But their relationship has disintegrated spectacularly since. Read more »

Woman cuts off genitals of alleged stalker

Reuters
Posted at Dec 27 10:58 PM

MUMBAI - A middle-aged Indian woman attacked her alleged stalker and cut off his genitals before rushing him to hospital to save his life, police said on Thursday. Read more »

Babae pinutol ang ari ng stalker sa India

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 27 06:50 PM

Pinutol ng isang babae ang ari ng lalaking nang-ii-stalk o sumusubaybay nang palihim sa kaniya bago niya ito isinugod sa ospital, sabi ng pulisya nitong Huwebes. Read more »

From wacky to well meaning, 7 upbeat stories of improving lives in 2018

Magdalena Mis, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Dec 26 11:10 AM

From an auto-repair shop in Uganda jumpstarting child soldiers into new lives to the boxing Barbie doll championing women's rights, the past year saw its fair share of upbeat stories about efforts to improve people's lives. Read more »

Emerging nations will take longer to outpace developed economies: study

Helen Reid
Updated as of Dec 26 08:25 AM

In the race to outpace developed economies, emerging countries such as China, India, and Brazil suffered a setback this year and will outgrow them later than previously expected, the Centre for Economics and Business Research said. Read more »

India's longest road-rail bridge bolsters defence on China border

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 26 07:33 AM

India on Tuesday opened its longest rail-road bridge in a poor northeastern state as part of efforts to boost defenses on its sensitive border with China. Read more »