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Over 200 dead, 900 injured in train crash in eastern India

Kyodo News
Updated as of Jun 03 11:34 AM

More than 200 people died and about 900 others were injured in an accident involving multiple trains in eastern India on Friday evening, local media said. Read more »

India successfully tests ballistic missile from submarine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 15 09:35 AM

India on Friday successfully tested a ballistic missile fired from its first indigenous nuclear-powered submarine, the defense ministry said. Read more »

Marcos vows stronger ties with India after call with Modi

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 06 07:04 PM

Marcos on Saturday said he has spoken with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the phone, assuring a boost in bilateral ties. Read more »

India's Modi defends handling of COVID pandemic amid protests

Manoj Kumar and Neha Arora, Reuters
Posted at Feb 08 05:42 PM

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended his government's efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two years, saying on Tuesday they led to high economic growth and middling inflation, unlike the situation in some advanced economies. Read more »

Indian farmers in no mood to forgive despite Modi's U-turn on reforms

Saurabh Sharma, Reuters
Posted at Nov 21 11:40 AM

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have caved into farmers' demands that he scraps laws they say threaten their livelihoods. Read more »

'Quad' leaders meet in White House as China looks on

Steve Holland, David Brunnstrom, Nandita Bose and Michael Martina, Reuters
Updated as of Sep 26 10:54 AM

Leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia vowed on Friday to pursue a free and open Indo-Pacific region "undaunted by coercion" at their first in-person summit, which presented a united front amid shared concerns about China. Read more »

India vaccinates record 10 million in one day

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 28 03:40 PM

India had aimed to vaccinate about 1.1 billion adults by the end of 2021, but shortages, administrative confusion and hesitancy have held back numbers Read more »

Twitter bans Indian actress for violating hate and abuse rules

Sankalp Phartiyal, Reuters
Posted at May 05 06:20 PM

Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it has banned leading Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, known for her ardent support of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing her of violating its rules on hateful conduct and abusive behavior. Read more »

Suga planning visits to India, Philippines from late April

Kyodo News
Posted at Apr 07 01:15 PM

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is planning visits to India and the Philippines from late April through early May, government sources said Wednesday, with the envisaged trips subject to changes in view of the coronavirus situation. Read more »

Modi takes home-grown vaccine as India widens immunization drive

Reuters
Updated as of Mar 01 01:56 PM

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inoculated with the first dose of a home-grown coronavirus vaccine on Monday, kicking off an expansion of the country's immunization campaign that began in mid-January with healthcare workers.   Read more »

Indian farm protesters battle police to plant flags at historic Red Fort

Devjyot Ghoshal and Adnan Abidi, Reuters
Posted at Jan 26 09:11 PM

Growers, angered by laws they say help large, private buyers at the expense of producers, have camped outside New Delhi for almost two months, posing one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he came to power in 2014.   Read more »

5 dead in India vaccine plant fire; COVID drug unaffected

Ammu Kannampilly, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 23 04:38 AM

MUMBAI - Five people died as a fire tore through a building in the world's biggest vaccine manufacturing hub in India Thursday, but the company insisted the production of drugs to counter the coronavirus pandemic would continue. Read more »

India records 44,489 new coronavirus cases

Reuters
Posted at Nov 26 12:27 PM

MUMBAI - India recorded 44,489 new coronavirus infections, data from the health ministry showed on Thursday, the 19th straight day that single-day cases have stayed below the 50,000 mark. Read more »

After a long ride, Harley-Davidson is leaving India

Karan Deep Singh, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 13 08:48 AM

Harley-Davidson, the proudly American company, is giving up on India because of weak sales, after more than a decade of pursuing a huge but ultimately frustrating place to do business. Read more »

'Rural surge' propels India toward more COVID-19 infections than US

Karan Deep Singh and Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 09 07:33 AM

Defiance of coronavirus rules is being reflected across rural India, and it is propelling this nation’s virus caseload toward the No. 1 spot globally. Infections are rippling into every corner of this country of 1.3 billion people. The Indian news media is calling it “The Rural Surge.” Read more »

Indian PM Modi's Twitter account hacked

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 03 11:44 AM

The Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been hacked, the social media giant confirmed Thursday.   Read more »

India rounds up critics under cover of virus crisis, activists say

Sameer Yasir and Kai Schultz, The New York Times
Posted at Jul 20 07:35 AM

As India struggles to quell surging coronavirus infections, lawyers accuse authorities of seizing on the pandemic as an opportunity to round up critics of the government who are protesting what they see as iron-fisted and anti-minority policies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read more »

India's Modi makes surprise China border visit after clash

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 03 03:41 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to India's northern frontier region with China on Friday in his first trip to the area since a deadly border clash last month. Read more »

India, China accuse each other of violating de facto border

Reuters
Posted at Jun 20 11:37 PM

India blamed the Chinese side for seeking to erect structures "just across the Line of Actual Control," as the demarcation is known, and refusing India's request to stop. Read more »

India's Modi promotes yoga against coronavirus

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 19 01:55 PM

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extolled yoga as a way of building a "protective shield" of immunity against the coronavirus, as his nation battles a surge in infections.   Read more »