Tag: India

Takeaways: U.S. Describes Indian Official’s Plot to Assassinate Sikh Activist

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged an Indian national in a murder-for-hire scheme targeting a Sikh separatist and activist in New York who is a U.S. citizen and has been outspoken in calling for a Sikh-majority homeland. The assassination plot was organized by an Indian government official and linked to the June killing of a Sikh […]

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India Ignored Repeated Warnings Before Tunnel Trapped 41 Men

As the trapped workers came out of the under-construction road tunnel after 17 days, the happy end to a rescue effort that had riveted India set off celebrations across the country. Gone for the moment were questions about why the 41 men had been put at risk of being entombed in the tunnel in the […]

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India Faces Questions About Another Reported Foreign Assassination Plot

For the second time in recent months, the Indian government is facing questions about whether it was involved in an assassination plot on Western soil, as American officials said they had expressed concerns to New Delhi about a thwarted plan to kill a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen. U.S. officials did not publicly accuse India of trying […]

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Putin Bristles as G20 Leaders Criticize Aggression in Ukraine

In his first address to officials from the Group of 20 leading economies since his invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin on Wednesday rebuffed criticism that the war’s aggression was “shocking” and accused Western nations of a double standard because of their response to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Appearing at a virtual […]

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Toyota Confirms Third Indian Factory, Set To Build Up To 100,000 Vehicles Annually

Toyota Confirms Third Indian Factory, Set To Build Up To 100,000 Vehicles Annually | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The new factory will employ 2,000 workers and initially build the Innova HyCross SUV https://www.carscoops.com/author/bradcarscoops-com/ <!––> by Brad Anderson 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Toyota has committed to building a new factory in India through a […]

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Australia, Africa, Asia And South America Risk Becoming Dumps For High-Polluting Cars

Australia, Africa, Asia And South America Risk Becoming Dumps For High-Polluting Cars | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Countries making little or no effort to decarbonize could end up saddled with dirty new and used imports not welcome elsewhere in the world https://www.carscoops.com/author/chris-chilton-cc/ <!––> by Chris Chilton 6 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Two centuries ago […]

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Can the U.S. Handle China While Supporting Israel and Ukraine Wars?

For some countries, the rekindled conflict over the Palestinian issue has also inflamed old beliefs that the United States is anti-Muslim, or at least too biased toward Israel. After years of watching Washington avoid confronting the often harsh mistreatment of Palestinians by both the Israeli government and extremist Israeli settlers, some no longer trust the […]

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Dream Job or Arranged Marriage? An Indian Woman Ponders What’s Next.

Arti Kumari, 22, crouched on a dusty dirt track in a runner’s lunge, waiting to spring forward as soon as her mother started the clock. Although Arti had risen before dawn to train, the oppressive heat bore down on her. It was May, and northern India was experiencing its worst heat wave in 45 years. […]

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India Is Splurging on Planes and Airports. Here’s Why.

No nation in the world is buying as many airplanes as India. Its largest airlines have ordered nearly 1,000 jets this year, committing tens of billions of dollars to a spending spree that is unparalleled in aviation. In New Delhi, Indira Gandhi International Airport will be ready for 109 million passengers next year, as it […]

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Israel, It’s Time to Consider a Cease-fire

I am watching the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza today and thinking about one of the world leaders I’ve most admired: Manmohan Singh. He was India’s prime minister in late November 2008, when 10 Pakistani jihadist militants from the Lashkar-e-Taiba group, widely believed to be linked to Pakistan’s military intelligence, infiltrated India and killed more than […]

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Chapter 2: Chasing Dreams at a Steep Cost

As Nasreen Parveen ran, her mind focused on nothing but putting one foot in front of the other. Run. Occasionally, for the briefest flash, she remembered the high window ledge and her decision not to jump. That she was alive because she wanted to take her life back rather than to end it. Which meant […]

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Renault To Launch 8 New Models For Markets Outside Europe By 2027

Renault To Launch 8 New Models For Markets Outside Europe By 2027 | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Those model will be based on 2 architectures – the Geely-sourced CMA for Korea, and the new Renault Modular Platform for everywhere else 1 hour ago <!––> <!– –> Renault has unveiled its international market expansion plan, slated […]

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Chapter 1: To Take Control, She Had to Run

Nasreen Parveen decided to run for her life at the same moment she decided not to end it. She had made it all the way out to the ledge of the high window in her mother’s house, her feet on that final dividing line between the solid world behind her and the drop into thin […]

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Canada Pulls 41 Diplomats as India Threatens to Revoke Their Immunity

Canada has withdrawn two-thirds of its diplomats based in India after that country said it would revoke their diplomatic immunity this Friday, further ratcheting up tension between the two countries. India and Canada have been at increasingly bitter odds since the assertion last month by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Indian government agents had played […]

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Facelifted Tata Harrier And Safari Get Modern Looks Over Frankenstein JLR-Fiat Combo

Facelifted Tata Harrier And Safari Get Modern Looks Over Frankenstein JLR-Fiat Combo | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The sibling SUVs for the Indian market benefit from refreshed exterior and interior design October 18, 2023 at 11:00 <!––> <!– –> Tata revealed the facelifted versions of the Harrier and Safari SUVs, introducing a number of styling […]

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U.S. Pursues a Coveted Prize: India as a Defense Partner

When the Salvor, a U.S. Navy rescue and salvage ship, pulled into a port in India’s southeast this summer, the job at hand was patching up the aging vessel. But there was a bigger mission, too: opening another door for a U.S. military trying to stretch out across the Indo-Pacific and counter Chinese power. The […]

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India’s Top Court Rejects Gay Marriage, While Voicing Sympathy

India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea to legalize same-sex marriage, a stinging setback for gay people seeking equal rights in this socially conservative country of 1.4 billion people. A five-member bench of judges ruled unanimously against the petitioners, with the chief justice saying it was up to Parliament to create any laws recognizing […]

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2024 Hyundai Verna Dreams Of Being Fast And Furious With Rendered Tune

2024 Hyundai Verna Dreams Of Being Fast And Furious With Rendered Tune | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> With these kind of looks, the Hyundai Verna / Accent certainly needs something more punchy than the stock 1.5 T-GDi engine that makes 158 hp 3 hours ago <!––> <!– –> This story contains renderings that are not […]

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Deadly India Flood Shows Danger Lurking in Melting Glaciers

Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, 17,000 feet up in the Himalayas just south of India’s border with China, some slight shift started an avalanche. Snow, ice and boulders slid into a giant glacial lake a mile below, causing it to burst its banks. From there, catastrophes multiplied as the water cascaded down mountain valleys below. […]

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Sikh Separatism Is a Nonissue in India, Except as a Political Boogeyman

During his first trip to India as Canada’s prime minister in 2018, Justin Trudeau made a visit to the northern state of Punjab, where he got a photo op in full Punjabi dress at the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion. He also got, courtesy of the Indian government, an earful of […]

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Q&A: The BRICS expansion and the global balance of power

In early September, the BRICS group of countries with emerging economies — an informal alliance among Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — announced it would expand its ranks by six nations. Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and UAE are now set to join the BRICS group in the near future. This would […]

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Uncertainty ‘Is Killing Us’: Sikhs in India Are in Limbo Amid Canada Dispute

Kulwant Singh, 45, shut his eyes tight and offered a prayer at the Sikh temple. Clutching a box of sweets and a shiny blue-and-white toy airplane, Mr. Singh and his teenage daughter, Navpreet Kaur, bowed outside the place of worship, Talhan Sahib in the North Indian state of Punjab. For Mr. Singh and many others, […]

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U.S. Provided Canada With Intelligence on Killing of Sikh Leader

American spy agencies provided information to Ottawa after the killing of a Sikh separatist leader but Canada developed the most definitive intelligence that led it to accuse India of orchestrating the plot, according to Western allied officials. In the aftermath of the killing, U.S. intelligence agencies offered their Canadian counterparts context that helped Canada conclude […]

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Two Hooded Gunmen, a Silver Getaway Car and a Slain Sikh Leader

The Sikh temple leader wanted as a terrorist by India walked toward his pickup truck late one Sunday last June after a long day at his place of worship. He and an associate discussed some upcoming programs while making their way across the large parking lot behind the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple near Vancouver. […]

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India’s Moon Lander Misses Wake-Up Call After Successful Mission

As the sun rose on Friday over the lunar plateau where India’s Vikram lander and Pragyan rover sit, the robotic explorers remained silent. The Indian Space Research Organization, India’s equivalent of NASA, said on Friday that mission controllers on the ground had sent a wake-up message to Vikram. The lander, as expected, did not reply. […]

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