Tag Archives: India

• Indian Parliament passes contentious citizenship law, protests flare 11 December 2019 | Devjyot Ghoshal This post has one comment

  India’s ruling Hindu nationalist government on Wednesday won parliamentary approval for a far-reaching citizenship law that critics say undermines the country’s secular constitution, as protests against the legislation intensified ...

• India’s lower house passes contentious citizenship bill | Glenda Kwek This post has no comments yet

  India's lower house passed controversial legislation early Tuesday that will grant citizenship to religious minorities from neighbouring countries, but not Muslims, amid raucous scenes in parliament and protests in the country. ...

• Unnao victim dies in hospital after being set ablaze 7 December 2019 | Zeba Siddiqui, Sankalp Phartiyal and Mayank Bhardwaj This post has 4 comments

  A 23-year-old rape victim set on fire by a gang of men, which included her alleged rapists, has died in a New Delhi hospital, prompting protests from opposition leaders who blamed the ruling party. ...

• Indian police kill rape-murder suspects, sparking celebrations 6 December 2019 | Jalees Andrabi and Abhaya Srivastava This post has one comment

  Indian police on Friday shot dead four gang-rape and murder suspects, prompting celebrations but also accusations that they were extrajudicial executions. The men were shot in the early hours during a re-enactment of the crime. ...

• Indians demand justice after woman gang raped and killed 2 December 2019 | Sheikh Saaliq This post has 4 comments

  Hundreds of people gathered in New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and other Indian cities on Monday to demand justice in the case of a veterinarian who was gang-raped and killed last week. ...

• India’s economic growth slows, pressure on Modi to speed up reforms 30 November 2019 | Manoj Kumar This post has no comments yet

  India’s annual economic growth slowed to 4.5% in the July-September quarter, its weakest pace since 2013, putting pressure on PM Modi to speed up reforms as five rate cuts by the central bank have failed to boost investments. ...

• Visa denial leads to Karmapa’s absence at Tibetan Religious Conference 27 November 2019 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 25 comments

  The Karmapa left India in May 2017, and took citizenship and passport of Dominica, a Caribbean island country. He was denied a visa by Indian authorities to return to India. ...

• Lending support to the Baloch movement 24 November 2019 | Nava Thakuria This post has no comments yet

  Goodwill for the Baloch freedom movement has grown in the recent past which has inspired the Baloch freedom fighters to express confidence in the Indo-Baloch relationship. ...

• Can McMahon Line dispute be resolved? 19 November 2019 | Pradip Phanjoubam This post has no comments yet

  More than a century after the McMahon Line was drawn at the tripartite Simla Convention of 1913-1914 between British India, Tibet and China, uncertainty over the Indo-China boundary in the Northeast remains a festering sore. ...

• Restive Kashmir marks 100 days since India stripped autonomy 12 November 2019 This post has no comments yet

  Kashmir on Tuesday marked 100 days since India stripped the restive Himalayan valley of its autonomy and imposed a strict communications blackout, with local journalists protesting. ...