India
Trump calls India, China air 'filthy'
Trump charged that Biden's climate plan was an "economic disaster" for oil states such as Texas and Oklahoma.
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Coronavirus: latest global developments
India has reported more than 7 million coronavirus cases, bringing it closer to the United States, the worst-hit country with more than 7.7 million cases, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources.
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India coronavirus cases cross 7 million
Health ministry data showed a rise of almost 75,000 cases on Sunday, taking the total to 7.05 million, second only to the US which has recorded 7.67 million infections.
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Five police suspended over India gang-rape
A seriously injured teenager from the disadvantaged Dalit caste was found in mid-September outside her village in northern India's Uttar Pradesh state and died this week in a New Delhi hospital.
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Death toll from India building collapse jumps to 26
Emergency workers from the National Disaster Response Force have pulled 20 survivors from the rubble of the three-story building in Bhiwandi, near Mumbai.
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'Don't touch the marble': visiting the Taj Mahal in a pandemic
As India's "monument to love" re-opened on Monday after a six-month hiatus, special rules were introduced.
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India digs deep to boost defences on crucial China frontier
The nuclear-armed Asian giants blame each other for a brutal high-altitude battle in June that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and an unspecified number of Chinese casualties.
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Taj Mahal to reopen even as virus rages in India
India, home to 1.3 million people, on Monday overtook Brazil to become the world's second most-infected nation with more than 4.2 million cases, behind only the United States.
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China says forced to take 'countermeasures' against India at tense border
The relationship between the two nuclear-armed neighbours has deteriorated since a clash in the Ladakh region on 15 June in which 20 Indian troops were killed.
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India overtakes Brazil as country second-worst hit by COVID-19
With 4,204,613 infections, India is nearly 70,000 cases ahead of Brazil, which will post its most recent numbers later on Monday.
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Search for survivors after India building collapse
The accident late Monday in the town of Mahad, south of Mumbai, forced three disaster response teams to work through the night, combing tin sheets, twisted metal and broken bricks.
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Modi says India set to mass produce COVID-19 vaccine, launches digital mission
In annual celebrations held at the 17th-century Red Fort and scaled down due to the pandemic, Modi identified health and economic self-reliance as the key priorities for his government.
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At least 29 killed in monsoon-triggered India landslide
The landslide in Idukki district, around 250 kilometres from Kerala state's capital Thiruvananthapuram, occurred Friday but the ongoing search and rescue efforts have been hampered by torrential downpours.
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Seven die in fire at COVID-19 hotel facility in India
Last week, eight COVID-19 patients died in a fire that broke out in the intensive care ward of a private hospital in India’s western city of Ahmedabad.
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Death toll from Indian passenger aircraft accident rises to 18
The Air India Express plane, which was repatriating Indians stranded in Dubai due to the coronavirus pandemic, overshot the runway of the Calicut International Airport in heavy rain near the southern city of Kozhikode on Friday. This was India’s worst passenger aircraft accident since 2010.
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Modi enjoys twin triumphs for India's Hindu nationalists
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took centre stage Wednesday at a ceremony laying the foundations for a temple at a flashpoint holy site exactly a year after imposing direct rule on Muslim-majority Kashmir - twin triumphs for his Hindu nationalist government.
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Indian police crackdown on illegal liquor suppliers after 86 die
Punjab police have so far arrested at least 25 people and conducted more than 100 raids across three districts, seizing hundreds of litres of liquor from villages and road-side eateries, the state’s police chief Dinkar Gupta said on Saturday.
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India locks down more than 125 million as virus surges across globe
India saw more than 600 deaths in a single day, and 125 million people in impoverished Bihar state, neighbouring Nepal, on Thursday started a new 15-day lockdown.
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Police levy thousands of fines as Indians chafe at mask rules
Many people just cannot get used to the accessory, which has come to symbolise the new normal, having been made compulsory in most big cities.
