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Journalists across India are increasingly being targeted for their work. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 2021 was one of the deadliest years for Indian journalists in the past decade, with six killed between 2021 and 2022. In 2022, India was ranked 150th among 180 countries in the ...

A row over remarks by India's ruling party officials grew on Monday as several Muslim-majority countries summoned Indian diplomats. The comments by the now-suspended members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) triggered wide criticism from Arab and Muslim-majority countries, which say the comments were offensive and "Islamophobic."  What triggered the row? ...

An Indian court has sentenced Kashmiri separatist leader Mohammed Yasin Malik to life in prison after finding him guilty of terrorism and sedition. Malik had been arrested in 2019 and was convicted last week on charges of committing terrorist acts, illegally raising funds, belonging to a terrorist organization and ...

New Delhi published a long-awaited new list of redrawn political constituencies for India-administered Kashmir last week. The move triggered concerns that it would electorally benefit India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of expected local elections in the region. Kashmir, which is currently ruled by the New Delhi-appointed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, has been ...

India accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan on March 9, the Indian Ministry of Defense said on Friday. India's Defense Ministry said the government had ordered a "high-level Court of Enquiry" into the incident, indicating that a technical malfunction during the course of a routine maintenance was believed to be the cause. ...

Election season is underway in five Indian states, and the big question is whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP's) core Hindu nationalist agenda will continue to be well-received by the over 180 million eligible voters.  The defining credo of the BJP since 1989 has been "Hindutva," ...

Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have arrested a prominent journalist accused of publishing "anti-national content" as part of a widening clampdown on media in the disputed region. On Saturday, police tweeted that Fahad Shah was wanted in three cases of "glorifying terrorism, spreading fake news and inciting general public for creating L&O (law and order) situations." Shah ...

At least 12 people died and more than a dozen were injured in a stampede at a Hindu shrine in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.  "Twelve pilgrims died and 14 were injured in a stampede in the early morning today at Mata Vaishno Devi shrine," senior police officer Mukesh Singh told Reuters ...

Hard-line groups disrupted Christmas mass and vandalized Christian ornaments in parts of India, media report. Two unidentified men desecrated a life-size statue of Jesus Christ at the Holy Redeemer Church at Ambala in Haryana, a northern state governed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), The Hindu newspaper reported. ...

Tensions continue in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland following the killings of 14 civiliansand one soldier in a botched army operation against insurgents. Over the weekend, an elite military commando unit shot dead six coal miners returning to their homes in the district of Mon, believing they were targeting ...