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State lifts ban on wired broadband internet but social media websites, VPNS and mobile hotspots remain inaccessible. The government in India’s northeastern Manipur state has partially lifted a ban on broadband internet for the first time since violence erupted on May 3, and led to a state-wide internet shutdown. Ethnic …

Harmanpreet Kaur is being criticized after she smashed the stumps and took a verbal swipe at umpires in Bangladesh. India women’s cricket captain Harmanpreet Kaur is being criticized for being a bad example after she smashed the stumps and took a verbal swipe at umpires in a match against Bangladesh. …

The arrested include 14 women and five children living in six districts of Uttar Pradesh state ‘after crossing the border illegally’, police said. Indian police say they have arrested 74 Rohingya refugees for living “illegally” in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh in a move activists condemned as an arbitrary …

Mumbai: A US congressional panel has voiced concern on the ineffective action on quality lapses taken by its national drug regulator Food and Drug Administration (FDA) particularly in manufacturing facilities in India and China. Together, India and China supply approximately 32% of generic drugs, and nearly half of active pharmaceutical …

India’s rice export ban has triggered panic buying at US supermarkets, causing the price of a 20-pound bag to surge from $16 to almost $50 in some stores. The south Asian country, which accounts for 40 percent of world rice exports, ordered a halt to its largest rice export category, …

Since the beginning of May, ethnic and religious violence in Manipur, a state in northeast India, has resulted in the deaths of at least 142 people, the destruction of over 300 churches and hundreds of villages, and one of the largest violence-driven internal displacements in recent Indian history. A fact-finding …

The US State Department says it is deeply concerned by reports of a viral video showing two women paraded naked in the northeastern state. The United States says it is deeply concerned by reports of a viral video showing two women paraded naked in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, a …

Mumbai, India – Rafiq Tamboli would have been 33 years old now. Or maybe he still is. His wife doesn’t know if he is dead or alive. Nobody has seen him for at least two years. A resident of Qureshi Nagar in Mumbai’s Kurla locality, Rafiq worked as a driver …

ROME – Although it’s always presumptuous to assert what Pope Francis must be thinking, I’m still willing to bet good money that when he sat about the “synodalization” of Catholicism, the current tempest raging in India’s Syro-Malabar Church is not exactly what he had in mind. The irony is that …