Indian lawmakers bid farewell to British-era parliament building
New Delhi, India Reuters Prime Minister Narendra Modi and lawmakers paid tribute on Monday to India’s parliament on the eve of its shift from a British colonial-era building to a brand new complex. Built by British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker two decades before India’s 1947 independence, the old parliament witnessed the tortuous birth […]
Indian women set fire to house of suspect as Manipur sex assault case triggers outrage
New Delhi, India Reuters Women in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur attacked the house of the main suspect in a sexual assault case that has enraged the nation, state police said on Friday. The person had allegedly dragged two tribal women onto the streets in May and incited a mob to rape and parade them […]
Essay: When religion gets political
TIM COSTELLO, a senior fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity in Sydney, says seeking political power to impose and enforce a religious vision is a growing problem around the world…
India’s worst train crash in decades kills at least 288
Updated: 6:50am, 4th June, 2023 (AEST) Bhubaneswar, India Reuters At least 288 people have died in India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure. One train in Friday’s accident […]
Modi inaugurates new parliament building as part of New Delhi’s makeover
New Delhi, India Reuters Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s new parliament building on Sunday, a modern complex which is part of his Hindu nationalist government’s grand plan to give a makeover to the British colonial-era architecture in the nation’s capital. The inauguration, and the ongoing revamp of the heart of New Delhi based on […]
Hiroshima G7 marks costs of war and welcomes Ukraine’s Zelenskiy
Hiroshima, Japan Reuters The United States and other rich democracies on Sunday will bring to a close a Group of Seven gathering that has focused on undermining Russia and managing China with a show of force behind Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Zelenskiy will receive a hero’s welcome during the closing day of the G7 summit […]
Essay: India’s Manipur violence did not come out of nowhere, and it could happen again in many other states across the country
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, says the recent violence is the result of years of government attempts to instrumentalise religion and ethnicity to shore up its grip on power…
An accurate count?: India, soon world’s most populous nation, doesn’t know how many people it has
YP RAJESH and RUPAM JAIN, of Reuters, report…
India revives network of village guards in Kashmir after militant attack
Srinagar, India Reuters India is reviving a network of thousands of village guards in Jammu and Kashmir, including arming some with automatic rifles, after a militant attack in the disputed region killed seven civilians earlier in January, a police official said. New Delhi has battled a decades-long armed insurgency in Kashmir, accusing arch rival Pakistan […]
India nixes privacy bill that alarmed big tech companies, works on new law
New Delhi, India Reuters India’s government on Wednesday withdrew a data protection and privacy bill which was first proposed in 2019 and had alarmed big technology companies such as Facebook and Google, announcing it was working on a new comprehensive law. The 2019 law had proposed stringent regulations on cross-border data flows and proposed giving […]