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NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are set to address the Shanghai Cooperation Organization alliance on Tuesday, with Iran expected to expand the Asian grouping. Putin will be addressing his first summit since a short-lived mutiny last month after the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, led a failed rebellion against the Kremlin. India is hosting the virtual summit of the eight-member SCO — headquartered in Beijing but […]
By Glenda KWEK Agence France-Presse MUMBAI, June 26, 2023 (AFP) — India’s first population clock, made up of 10 white numbered cards on a large green metal board, attracts curious passersby who watch it record the story of the world’s most populous nation. The clock — manually updated every day according to projected estimates and akin to a cricket scoreboard in appearance — was first erected in 1982 when India was home to more than […]
By Shaun Tandon and Aurelia End Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, (AFP) — US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday that the two democracies’ partnership would define the next century, as Washington eyes a counterweight to China and brushes off allegations of growing authoritarianism in New Delhi. The two nations reached major deals on engines for fighter-jets, semiconductor investment and space cooperation as Biden rolled out the red carpet to Modi for […]
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2023 (AFP) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday opened a state visit to Washington as the United States steps up its wooing of India despite simmering disagreements on Ukraine and human rights. President Joe Biden is putting on the full pomp for only the third state visitor of his administration, with the billion-plus country seen as a pivotal partner in a growing global competition with China. Modi — flying in […]
MANDVI, India, June 16, 2023 (AFP) – Cyclone Biparjoy tore down power poles and uprooted trees Friday after pummelling the Indian coastline, but the storm was weaker than feared and there were only two confirmed deaths. More than 180,000 people in the Indian state of Gujarat and Pakistan’s neighbouring Sindh province fled the path of Biparjoy — which means “disaster” in Bengali — before it made landfall on Thursday evening. The storm packed sustained winds […]
By Glenda KWEK and Ashraf KHAN in Badin, Pakistan Agence France-Presse MANDVI, India (AFP) — Cyclone Biparjoy slammed into the Indian coast with powerful winds, sowing fear and prompting evacuations, but began weakening in the early hours of Friday as it moved north. Indian forecasters had warned that Biparjoy, whose name means “disaster” in Bengali, was likely to devastate homes and tear down power lines as it barrels through the western state of Gujarat. The […]
By Glenda KWEK and Ashraf KHAN in Badin, Pakistan Agence France-Presse MANDVI, India, June 15, 2023 (AFP) — Howling gales and crashing waves pounded the coastline of India and Pakistan on Thursday hours before a powerful cyclone was due to make landfall, with those unable to flee seeking shelter where they could. Nearly 150,000 people have fled the predicted path of Cyclone Biparjoy, whose name means “disaster” in Bengali, with meteorologists warning it could devastate […]
NEW DELHI, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – India on Tuesday denied claims it had threatened to shut down Twitter inside the country if it did not block accounts critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The world’s biggest democracy petitions Twitter for content removals more than almost any other country, and the platform regularly takes down or blocks content at the request of Indian authorities. Former chief executive Jack Dorsey said Monday that the platform […]
AHMEDABAD, India, June 13, 2023 (AFP) – More than 40,000 people have been evacuated across India and Pakistan as a cyclone approaches their coast, officials said Tuesday, with gales of up to 150 kilometres per hour predicted. The cyclone — named Biparjoy, meaning “disaster” in Bengali — is making its way across the Arabian Sea and is forecast to make landfall as a “very severe cyclonic storm”, government weather monitors warned. In Pakistan’s southeastern Sindh […]
NEW DELHI, June 2, 2023 (AFP) – The death toll from a multiple train collision in eastern India has risen to at least 207 people, with more than 850 others injured and more feared trapped, officials said early Saturday. “We have already counted 207 dead and the toll will still go up further,” Sudhanshu Sarangi, director general of Odisha Fire Services, told AFP from the accident site. “The rescue work is still going at the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — India’s leading opposition figure Rahul Gandhi denounced Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stranglehold on Indian society on Thursday but expressed confidence that the opposition can beat the ruling party in 2024 elections. Gandhi, who was speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, is a member of the Congress Party and was expelled from the Indian parliament after being convicted of defamation in March for remarks made during a 2019 election […]
MUMBAI, May 31, 2023 (AFP) – India’s GDP grew by 7.2 percent in the year to March, official figures showed Wednesday, boosted by services and consumption, putting it among the world’s fastest-expanding major economies. The South Asian nation is the world’s fifth-largest economy, and recently surpassed China to become the most populous country. Its growth has rebounded since the pandemic — the economy rocketed 9.1 percent in the 2021-22 financial year. But like other countries, […]
