Inside a musty municipal office, Farah Sheikh pored through hundreds of pages of tattered 60-year-old documents searching for evidence of her family's roots in India.
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok will have to reveal users' identities if Indian government agencies ask them to, according to the country's controversial new rules for social media companies and messaging apps expected to be published later
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India -- India's 2019 Citizenship Act expedites the process for persecuted minorities of Pakistani, Afghan and Bangladesh nationality who resided in India since 2014.
Tens of thousands of people in at least 15 cities across India Thursday defied a government ban on protests after violent demonstrations last week sent the country into chaos following the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), reported Bloo
"It's 1947 all over again," wrote my aunt on the family WhatsApp group as protests erupted across India against the Modi government's divisive new citizenship law.
As central banks ramp up money printing to prevent the global economy from crashing, we've been documenting an alarming surge of social upheavals erupting across the world in 2019.
New Delhi hit 'emergency' levels of 2.5PM (fine particles) on Wednesday
The potentially deadly tiny particles can get into the bloodstream and lungs
Industrial and traffic pollution and burning crops have cast toxic pall over city
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the fall of the Indian economy as Moody's downgrades India's outlook to "negative" from stable causing great concerns over the possibility of Moody's downgrading India's credit
India is aiming to build a fleet of future nuclear power plant projects in order to reduce costs and construction times, according to Kamlesh Vyas, chairman of the country's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
In a major development brewing for sometime now, India and US have officially suspended Defense Cooperation after Americans refused to give India high-end jet-engine technology.
At least four people were killed and dozens injured Sunday after security officials in southern Bangladesh opened fire to disperse hundreds of Muslims during a protest over an alleged social media post undermining Islam's Prophet Muhammad, police s
It gets better: according Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, new companies formed from Oct. 1 will attract 15% tax and an effective rate of 17.01%, Sitharaman said. That brings it to the same level as in Singapore, which has the second lowest corpo
Whenever they talk about India and its "inevitable" rise to world economic dominance, establishment hacks like Thomas "Iraq War booster" Friedman always seem compelled to note that the country is "the world's largest democracy." They mi
The Punjab Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC), in India, has been caught cooking the books and misreporting non-preforming loans (NPL) of Mumbai-based real estate developer Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL).
Sushant and Neha discovered Vina Mulya Amulya Sewa, a nonprofit organization founded by 69-year-old Natubhai Patel that holds matchmaking events - called swayamvars - where senior Indians, typically older than 50, can meet and find a partner they
India is tuned towards interaction with Russia in the Arctic,» says the joint declaration signed by Modi and Russia's Vladimir Putin during this week's Russian-Indian Summit in Vladivostok.
India's space agency on Saturday lost communication with its spacecraft just before it was due to land near the South Pole of the Moon, in a blow to the nation's lunar ambitions.
In a bid to promote diversity in India on Independence Day (August 15), Cadbury created a four-in-one chocolate 'Unity' bar.
The limited edition treat is designed to unite "people of different castes, creed, languages, regions and religions
The Indian government has created a crisis by stripping the state of Jammu and Kashmir of its former semi-autonomy and splitting it into two territories.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan raised the prospect of nuclear war with India while calling for international assistance in a territorial dispute with his larger democratic neighbor.
The Indian government has created a crisis by stripping the state of Jammu and Kashmir of its former semi-autonomy and splitting it into two territories.
The last few weeks have seen a sharp escalation in tensions in the Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked the territory's long-standing autonomy, putting it on lockdown and plunging the region into chaos.