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Whenever Rudi thought of India, he thought of Krishen Khanna, and a happy past – a sentiment Rudi shared in a letter addressed to his friend in 1974.Despite the passing years and the distance between them, the warmth between the two stayed the same. Krishen Khanna was like a ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top opposition leader and fierce critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was expelled from Parliament Friday, a day after a court convicted him of defamation and sentenced him to two years in prison for mocking the surname Modi in an election speech.The actions against ...

From a bureaucrat to becoming the Union Finance and External Affairs minister under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s NDA government to contesting presidential elections against a yet-to-be announced NDA candidate at present, Yashwant Sinha has donned multiple hats over the years. Sinha’s political journey started with Janata Dal after he ...

Past winners of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought include Mandela, Venezuela’s opposition, and Malala Yousafzai.Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was awarded the European Parliament’s annual human rights prize on Wednesday for his efforts to challenge President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power. Navalny, 45, who was poisoned in ...

Despite CCTV evidence, no culprits have been identified in a host of previous incidents. In April, a prominent commentator survived a shooting by an unknown gunman, and last year an established journalist, Matiullah Jan, was abducted for a number of hours by unidentified men. Many in Pakistan bitterly joke ...

Israel-China relations have grown ever-closer in recent decades as new innovation hubs were created and both countries were looking forward to celebrating 30 years of diplomatic relations next year. President Reuven Rivlin received the new Chinese Ambassador Cai Run in April.However, the recent controversy over the Israel-Hamas war in ...

WASHINGTON — The previous two presidents of the United States declared they wanted to pull all American troops out of Afghanistan, and they both decided in the end that they could not do it.Now President Biden is facing the same issue, with a deadline less than three months away.The ...

When the late Vinod Mehta launched the weekly newspaper, Sunday Observer, he was often asked who his target reader was. “The man from Matunga,” he said, explaining later that he wanted to reach out to readers beyond SoBo, as South Bombay is now known. Mehta would not have meant ...