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Indian police filed criminal charges against four journalists for allegedly “misrepresenting facts” about tribal conflicts in Manipur.

Multiple news outlets reported on Thursday that Xi Jinping is planning not to attend the G-20 leaders’ summit in New Delhi, India.

Beijing published a “standard map of China,” labeling nearly the entire South China Sea, Taiwan, and large areas of India under its rule.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission deployed its Pragyan moon rover on Thursday, beginning its cautious exploration of the lunar south pole while millions of Indians watched its livestream and celebrated the historic accomplishments of the mission.

India made history on Wednesday as its Moon mission became the first to land in the lunar south pole region. The triumph came 72-hours after a Russian attempt to make a similar landing ended in spectacular failure.

The Times of India (TOI) reported on Sunday that conditions in Ukraine are increasingly difficult for visiting Indian students, because the Ukrainians resent India’s positive relationship with invading Russia. Indian visitors say the locals are increasingly telling them to “go back” as the war grinds on.

The race between India and Russia to make the first landing near the Moon’s south pole took a dramatic turn on Sunday as Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft tumbled into an uncontrolled orbit and slammed into the lunar surface.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims peace is returning to the turbulent province of Manipur after months of tribal warfare.

The China-led BRICS trade and security bloc will reportedly discuss reducing their reliance on the U.S. dollar for trade during their upcoming South Africa summit — furthering plans to diminish American influence around the world.

India has quietly banned its growing domestic drone industry from using Chinese parts due to fears of security vulnerabilities.

Eleven female sanitation workers pooled money for a $3 lottery ticket and won India’s 100 million rupee ($1.2 million) jackpot.

A report published by India’s Union Home Ministry last week revealed that over a million women and girls disappeared between 2019 and 2021. 250,000 of the disappearances involved girls under the age of 18.

Officials from Australia’s space agency announced that a cylindrical piece of space debris found on a remote beach is a rocket part belonging to the Indian government.

An enraged mob made of up women threw stones at and attempted to break into the house of Indian Member of Parliament (MP) Rajkumar Ranjan Singh in northern Manipur on Monday, the latest incident of violence in an out-of-control religious conflict New Delhi has largely ignored.

Huge protests erupted in the conflicted Indian state of Manipur after a viral video showed two Christian women paraded nude by a Hindu mob.

The months-long persecution of Christian tribes in Manipur, northern India, by members of the majority Hindu Meitei tribe became a topic of national outrage on Wednesday as a video went viral of a presumed Meitei mob parading two women through the streets naked, molesting and humiliating them in broad daylight.

India’s Tata Sons plans to build a 4-billion-pound ($5.2 billion) electric car battery factory in the U.K., one of Europe’s largest.

Indian PM Modi guest of honour at France’s Bastille Day celebrations, taking place under tight security after the country was swept by riots.

Indian PM Narendra Modi began a two-day visit to France where he will discuss major new defence deals.

The United Nations marked World Population Day on Tuesday, publishing a forecast that the Earth’s population will hit 9.7 billion by the year 2050 and surpass 10 billion before the end of the century.

Taiwan-based tech giant Foxconn announced Monday its withdrawal from a $19.5 billion joint semiconductor manufacturing deal with Indian metal and energy company Vedanta.

The Times of India (TOI) reported on Monday that a blockade on food and medical supplies by the valley-dwelling Hindu majority of the Manipur province is starving the hill-dwelling Kuki Christian tribes, thousands of whom have been displaced from their homes into refugee camps.

The government of Taiwan announced on Wednesday that it will open a new representative office in the financial hub of Mumbai, establishing its third diplomatic office in India.

A video showing a member of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) urinating on an indigenous worker in the state of Madhya Pradesh went viral on Tuesday, sparking social media outrage and prompting the arrest of the man featured in the clip.

India asserted itself as the lone member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) not to endorse communist China’s predatory Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) during a virtual summit Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden’s warm welcome to Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose tenure has seen a 300-percent spike in attacks on Christians in the country, was a “big miss” for human rights, David Curry, the president and CEO of Global Christian Relief, told Breitbart News this week.

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was turned back by police when he tried to enter the violence-torn state of Manipur by truck.

Rahul Gandhi, leader of India’s opposition Indian National Congress (INC) party, announced on Tuesday that he will visit the conflict-torn state of Manipur on Thursday and Friday.

The Catholic organization Aid to the Church in Need denounced an “increasingly muted response” to religious persecution in China and India.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first state visit to Egypt on Saturday, landing in Cairo after departing the United States for two days of meetings with Egyptian business leaders and officials, including President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday lashed out at former U.S. President Barack Obama for saying India’s government should do more to protect Muslim citizens.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed shock on Thursday when confronted about the dramatic escalation in violence against non-Hindu religious minorities in his country during his tenure, claiming to be “really surprised” and denying any religious discrimination.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on Capitol Hill on Thursday to address a joint meeting of Congress as part of a multi-day tour through the United States aimed at building on U.S.-India relations.

India once again broke its previous Russian oil import records in May, Reuters reported on Wednesday, buying 1.95 million barrels per day (bpd) that month. About 40 percent of the oil India imported in May came from Russia.

General Electric Aerospace on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to manufacture fighter jet engines in India, putting ink on a major deal that was a much-anticipated feature of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States this week.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave leftist American President Joe Biden a handcrafted box featuring various gifts, including an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh and a silver oil lamp, on Wednesday evening, a gift intended to honor the president having lived through “one thousand full moons.”