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Marking Uprising's Anniversary, Tibetans Scuffle With Cops

Protests in India honor the anniversary of the failed 1959 uprising

(Newser) - Dozens of Tibetan protesters clashed with police outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi on Monday as Tibetans living in exile marked the 66th anniversary of their uprising against China that was crushed by Chinese forces. As in past years, police blocked the protesters from entering the embassy and briefly...

Metal Containers Save Workers After Avalanche in India

Dozens survive in remote location

(Newser) - An avalanche in a remote part of India killed eight road-construction workers, but the toll likely would have been much higher were it not for metal containers the workers were using as temporary housing. The BBC and the Indian Express reports that about 50 workers were pulled out alive from...

Report: A Billion of India's People Are Unmonetizable

They have zero discretionary income

(Newser) - India is home to 1.4 billion—but not to 1.4 billion consumers. The BBC reports on findings from the VC firm Blume Ventures, which has pegged the country's consuming class—meaning those people with the ability to spend any discretionary money on goods or services—at just...

AA Flight Requests Diversion While Over the Caspian Sea

It was flying to India, which has seen a record number of hoax bomb threats

(Newser) - An American Airlines flight carrying 199 passengers and 15 crew members made an unexpected landing in Rome on Sunday due to a bomb threat. The airline said Flight AA292, which had departed New York's JFK Airport for New Delhi, touched down in the Italian capital around 5:30pm local...

Busking in Bengaluru Doesn't Go Well for Ed Sheeran

Police pull the plug on singer's streetside performance in India ahead of concert

(Newser) - Ed Sheeran's streetside dress rehearsal in India over the weekend came to a quick close, with a cop pulling the plug on the performance. NBC News reports that the 33-year-old singer was busking Sunday on a sidewalk in Bengaluru ahead of his Mathematics Tour concert that night, getting bystanders...

It Was the Longest Deportation Flight Yet

104 migrants have arrived in India after traveling a reported 24 hours

(Newser) - For the first time, the US has used a military plane to deport Indian nationals. A US military plane arrived in Punjab, India, on Wednesday, carrying more than 100 deportees on the longest such deportation flight yet of the current Trump administration, per the New York Times . Having left San...

'There Was No Chance for Escape, There Was Pushing From All Sides'

Doctor says at least 17 were killed in stampede at Maha Kumbh festival in India

(Newser) - At least 17 people were killed and many more injured in a stampede at the world's largest religious gathering early Wednesday, a doctor at a government hospital said, as millions of pilgrims rushed to dip in sacred waters during the Maha Kumbh festival in northern India. Wednesday was a...

India, China Change Stance on Direct Flights

After nearly 5-year pause, direct flights between the countries will resume

(Newser) - For the first time in nearly five years, direct flights between China and India are set to resume. The New York Times reports the development comes as relations between the two countries improve after hitting one of their lowest points in recent memory, triggered by a deadly faceoff along a...

After Toxic Waste Arrives in Town, Self-Immolations

Plans to dispose of waste from India's Bhopal gas tragedy prompt protests in Pithampur

(Newser) - In what's often called the world's worst industrial disaster, a 1984 chemical accident at a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, unleashed a toxic gas that killed thousands of people over subsequent years. The toll is still being felt in Bhopal, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, where...

Fire Tears Through Tents at Earth's Biggest Religious Fest

No injuries reported at India's Maha Kumbh festival

(Newser) - A fire tore through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India's northern Prayagraj city, officials said Sunday. There were no injuries, the AP reports. The blaze was caused by the explosion of a gas cylinder and was contained by...

Man Convicted of Murder of Sleeping Trainee Doctor

Court finds Sanjay Roy raped and murdered a trainee doctor in Kolkata

(Newser) - A police volunteer has been found guilty of the August rape and murder of a trainee doctor in the hospital where she worked, in a case that deeply rattled India. Sanjay Roy had been accused of drunkenly arriving at the hospital and attacking the 31-year-old as she slept following a...

Muckraking Reporter's Body Found in a Septic Tank

Cops: Mukesh Chandrakar's death may be tied to reports on construction scam

(Newser) - A missing Indian journalist and YouTuber well known for his reports on corruption within the construction industry was found dead on Friday, his body discovered in a septic tank in Bijapur. The Guardian reports on the death of Mukesh Chandrakar, said to be 32 or 33, who was reported missing...

Rushdie's Satanic Verses Selling in India After 36 Years

Nation lifts ban because original decree can't be located

(Newser) - Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses is being sold again in his native India nearly four decades after it was banned, reports the Times of India . A court lifted the ban put in place in 1988 for an unusual reason, notes the Guardian : "lost paperwork." It seems that nobody...

Prime Minister Led Economic Change in India
Prime Minister Led
Economic Change in India
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Dec 26, 2024 2:30 PM CST

Prime Minister Led Economic Change in India

Modi praises Manmohan Singh's 'efforts to improve people's lives'

(Newser) - Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, widely regarded as the architect of India's economic reform program and a landmark nuclear deal with the US, died Thursday. He was 92. Singh was admitted to New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Thursday after his health deteriorated, the hospital...

He Just Became the Youngest Chess World Champion

Gukesh Dommaraju of India is 18

(Newser) - Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest chess world champion Thursday after beating the defending champion Ding Liren of China in the final match of their series in Singapore. Dommaraju, 18, secured 7.5 points against 6.5 for his Chinese rival in the contest, surpassing the achievement of Russia'...

Indian Airlines Count 999 Hoax Bomb Threats So Far

It's a new record; just 112 threats were received in all of last year

(Newser) - It's been a record-setting year for hoax bomb threats at India's airports and airlines. More than 500 came in the last two weeks of October, pushing the year's total to 999 as of Nov. 14. That's almost 10 times more threats than the 122 received in...

Trial Begins After Family Froze to Death, Lost in Canada

Minnesota case accuses 2 in deaths of Indian migrants hoping to reach the US

(Newser) - A criminal network stretching from India to Canada made money smuggling families seeking better lives in the United States—including an Indian family of four who died in gusting snow and bone-chilling temperatures two years ago, federal prosecutors plan to argue at a trial starting Monday in Minnesota. Prosecutors have...

India, Canada Expel Diplomats After Plot Accusations

Row between nations began with Sikh separatist's killing

(Newser) - India and Canada expelled a half-dozen of the other's diplomats on Monday after accusations that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government was involved in "homicides, extortion, and violent acts" on Canadian soil. The criminal activity had centered on supporters of the pro-Khalistan movement, which seeks a separate homeland...

Climbers Survive 3 Days Stranded in Himalayas

They had no food, water, supplies after freak accident

(Newser) - When the rope lifting their food and climbing equipment snapped more than 20,000 feet up Chaukhamba mountain in India's Himalayas, Fay Manners and climbing partner Michelle Dvorak were "terrified," Manners tells the BBC . They were stranded without supplies for three days, in conditions Manners describes as...

India: Marital Rape Isn't Rape
India: Marital Rape Isn't Rape
Oct 4, 2024 9:28 AM CDT

India: Marital Rape Isn't Rape

Government argues for retaining marital rape exemption, dating back to 1860

(Newser) - Entering a marriage, a woman gives "implied" consent for sex with her husband, India's government told the country's Supreme Court on Thursday as it faces off against challengers to a 164-year-old law. Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, dating back to British colonial rule, notes "...

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