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New Delhi, Jan 13 (EFE). – The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court granted bail to a 26-year-old man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl, saying the relationship was the product of «love and attraction» and not «lust.» «It seems that the alleged incident of a sexual relationship is...
New Delhi, Dec 29 (EFE). – The Indian government announced Friday that it has again asked Pakistan to extradite Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the Islamist group accused of organizing the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. «The person in question is wanted in numerous cases in India. He...
By David Asta Alares New Delhi, Dec 29 (EFE).- A Hindu temple in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, newly built on the remains of a Muslim mosque, is taking center stage in Indian politics ahead of its controversial inauguration on Jan. 22. Workers are putting the finishing touches...
Paris, Dec 23 (EFE). – A plane with 303 Indian passengers bound for Nicaragua remains immobilized at a French airport due to suspicions of human trafficking, in a case in which two people were arrested on Saturday. Since Thursday, Dec. 21, the plane of the Romanian company Legend Airlines, which...
New Delhi, Jul 20 (EFE).- At least 10 people died and dozens remain trapped following a landslide in a village in western India, with rescue teams working around the clock to recover possible survivors, officials said Thursday. This landslide occurred on Wednesday night in Maharashtra state’s Raigad district, which, like...
New Delhi, Mar 22 (EFE).- The arrest of a Kashmiri journalist by an anti-terror agency in India sparked global criticism, with rights and media bodies calling it an attack on press freedoms and civil society in the disputed region. Irfan Mehraj was arrested from Srinagar, the main city in Kashmir,...
New Delhi, Mar 14 (EFE).- India’s top court on Tuesday set aside a government request for additional compensation to the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy that caused thousands of death, with chronic health effects persisting nearly four decades later. The federal government had urged the court to order the...
New Delhi, Mar 13 (EFE).- India continues to be the world’s top arms importer even as the imports declined by 11 percent in the last decade, a global arms sales watchdog said on Monday. The decline in the arms imports to India was linked to “a complex procurement process, efforts...
New Delhi, Mar 13 (EFE).- India woke up ecstatic on Monday after two films from the country ended up with wins at the Oscars, accounting for the country’s sixth and seventh Academy Awards in all. The song “Naatu Naatu” from the movie “RRR” won the Best Original Song, while “The...
New Delhi, Mar 2 (EFE).- A meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Twenty (G20) leading economies ended without a joint declaration in the Indian capital due to widening differences of opinion on the Russia-Ukraine war. It was for the second time in a week that the bloc under...
Shanghai, China, Jan 17 (EFE).- The population of China, the world’s most populous nation, shrank last year for the first time in more than 60 years, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday. The country closed 2022 with 1,411,750,000 people, a drop of some 850,000 on the...
New Delhi, Dec 27 (EFE).- Hospitals across India conducted simulated drills on Tuesday to prepare for a possible new Covid-19 outbreak after a record increase in coronavirus cases in neighboring China. “It is critical since Covid cases are expected to increase in the coming days,” federal Health Minister Manshukh Mandaviya...
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