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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won an unexpected victory on Tuesday in elections in India’s second-largest state, further bolstering his party’s political dominance even as the nation confronts the world’s second-highest tally of COVID-19 cases and its worst economic downturn for four decades. Exit polls from ...

India05:47 GMT 06.11.2020Get short URLhttps://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0b/06/1081043540_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_146b8a0f547a0bffb49730c0f9a55fa7.jpgSputnik Internationalhttps://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.pngShweta Sharma. Sputnik Internationalhttps://sputniknews.com/india/202011061081041978-terrorist-one-civilian-killed-in-encounter-raging-overnight-in-jammu--kashmir/The disputed Jammu and Kashmir region reported a total of 206 terrorism-related incidents between 5 August of last year, when its statehood was abrogated, and 31 August of this year. The erstwhile state, which had enjoyed quasi-autonomy, was divided into two ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least seven students and wounding 70 others, police and a hospital spokesman said. The bombing happened as a prominent religious scholar ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Muslims in the Middle East and beyond on Monday broadened their calls for boycotts of French products and protests, as a clash over depictions of the Prophet Muhammad and the limits of free speech intensified. Kuwaiti stores pulled French yogurts and bottles of sparkling ...

Dr Raghib Ali, a clinical epidemiologist Cambridge University, said ethnic minorities will likely continue to be hit hardest by Covid-19 because the factors that make them vulnerable can't be changed overnightEthnic minorities will likely continue to be hit hardest by Covid-19 during the second wave because the factors that ...

When Meesha Shafi ignited Pakistan’s #MeToo movement in 2018, she said she wanted to end the culture of silence around sexual harassment. Now, the singer and actor is under a court-imposed gag order while fighting a libel lawsuit. The 38-year-old star of Mira Nair’s film The Reluctant Fundamentalist star ...

At least a dozen residential houses were completely gutted in a massive blaze in Baduaab village of Tulail in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district late last night, officials said here. An official said that at least 12 residential houses comprising of 15 families were completely gutted in the fire that broke ...

(NEW DELHI) — Human rights watchdog Amnesty International said Tuesday that it was halting its operation in India, citing reprisals from the government and the freezing of its bank accounts by Indian authorities. Amnesty International India said in a statement that the organization had laid off its staff in ...

Two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commanders were killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, police said. Based on specific information about the presence of militants in Sirhama area of the south Kashmir district, security forces launched a cordon and search ...

Two Lashkar-e-Taiba commanders were killed in a night-long encounter on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, the police said. A search operation was launched on Thursday after receiving specific information about the presence of militants in Sirhama area of the district.The deceased have been identified as Adil Ahmad ...