Two top Republican Congressmen have introduced a bill to designate Pakistan a “state sponsor of terrorism” as the country is suspected of being linked to the radicalization of the naturalized U.S. citizen of Afghan descent behind last weekend’s bombings in New York and New Jersey.
Contents: Pakistan-India tensions again surge as Pakistan demands independence for Kashmir; Pakistan ejects Indian journalist from New York press conference
A group of Christians living in the midst of an animist village in central India have been ostracized to the point of not being able to collect firewood or pasture their animals for refusing to renounce their faith.
In 2007, the presidential campaign of then-Senator Barack Obama circulated a memo to reporters extensively detailing then-Senator Hillary Clinton’s questionable “personal, financial, and political ties to India.”
Contents: New terrorist attack in Kashmir threatens India-Pakistan retaliation; Russia accuses US of intentionally striking Syria’s army to support ISIS
Contents: Violence in India-controlled Kashmir grows as thousands defy curfew; India and Pakistan in vitriolic accusations at the UN over Kashmir and Balochistan
A 23-year-old old woman identified as S Dhanya was hacked to death in India on Wednesday after rejecting a marriage proposal from a 27-year-old mill worker.
India pledged another billion dollars in aid for Afghanistan this week, while facing heightened terrorism concerns after the defection of 22 Indian nationals to the Islamic State.
The Indian government has warned female travelers not to wear skirts “for their own safety” as they travel to and around the country. India has been struggling with the widespread violence against women in the country, which has hurt the nation’s tourism industry.
Contents: Japan and Russia may settle post-World War II Kuril Islands dispute; Reading between the lines: Russia, Japan, China, India and border disputes
Singapore has become the first Asian country to document active local Zika transmission, confirming up to 115 locally acquired cases so far. The tropical island, long an attractive destination for Indian and Chinese tourists, threatens to take the epidemic ravaging Latin America and south Florida global.
Contents: Fault lines: Saudi Arabia-China-Pakistan and India-U.S. continue to harden; Saudi Arabia and China sign economic and military agreements; Saudi Arabia and Pakistan discuss economic and military ties; U.S. and India sign a landmark defense agreement
Contents: Turkey’s PM declares ‘all-out war’ after new PKK truck bomb attack; After 50 days of violence, unrest in India-controlled Kashmir is unabated
Approximately 22,000 pages of sensitive data about India’s six new French-built Scorpene submarines have leaked onto the Internet, creating what retired Vice-Admiral A.K. Singh described as a “potentially fairly disastrous” situation.
Surgeons in India removed 40 knives from a man’s stomach after a 5-hour-long surgery. Doctors admitted the unidentified 42-year-old patient to the hospital in Northern India after he complained of abdominal pain, weight loss, and weakness.
A bizarre string of kite-inflicted fatalities rocked India on Monday, killing two small children and a 22-year-old man in separate incidents.
Contents: India, Pakistan celebrate independence day with vitriolic accusations about Kashmir; Militants hoist Pakistani flags in Kashmir on Sunday
The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan urged neighboring India to provide more military aid to Afghanistan, a request that marks a change in America’s stance towards Indian involvement in the security sector of the war-torn nation.
Anti-narcotics and intelligence officials from India have accused “overlapping groups” of drug smugglers, criminals, and jihadists from neighboring Pakistan of trafficking “anti-India Muslim extremists, counterfeit currency and weapons” into their country, reports the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Contents: Pakistan again in shock after bloody terrorist attack in Quetta; The debate in Pakistan: Good terrorists vs Bad terrorists; Violence and unrest increase in India’s Kashmir
Contents: India’s Narendra Modi finally hits out at Cow Protectors (‘Gau Rakshaks’); Generational history of cow protection in India and Hinduism
A man named Sheetal Kawale became the first beneficiary of an initiative by the government of Maharashtra, India, for convicts to earn reduced sentences by completing a yoga program.
Contents: Migrant Indian workers in Saudi Arabia face starvation; India and Saudi Arabia move to warm relations with each other
Fresh off a crackdown on independent journalism in China, Beijing is lashing out at India for refusing to renew the visas of three journalists from China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua.
American agriculture is a perpetual crisis of farmers and ranchers fighting forces too big to fight alone.
A historic agriculture crisis requires debt acceleration, price drops and misguided federal policy. When it comes to naming misguided policy, it doesn’t take farmers long — especially cotton farmers — to cite “that damned Brazil deal.”
Contents: ISIS claims responsibility for attack on Shia Hazaras in Kabul Afghanistan; Kabul attack targeted Afghanistan’s repressed Hazara minority
Contents: Tensions rising between Pakistan and India over Kashmir issue; Mastermind of 2008 Mumbai attack leads Pakistan protests against India
Contents: China makes more delusional claims about the South China Sea; China continues to operate within the Philippines exclusive economic zone (EEZ); China’s military deploys bombers and closes part of the South China Sea
Contents: Implications of the attempted coup in Turkey; Turkey coup; Protests and violence continue across Indian-governed Kashmir; Nice France terror attack provokes desperate search for solutions
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is suspected of having set up sleeper cells inside India, the world’s second most populous nation, the Iraqi ambassador to India told The Hindu.
Last month, two Christian pastors and a member of their church were beaten with cricket bats by a mob of up to 60 Hindus, then forcibly dragged to a police station, where the mob filed charges against the trio for allegedly proselytizing.
Contents: Police clashes in India-governed Kashmir kill 36 and leaves thousands injured; Jammu-Kashmir violence follows a typical generational timeline after civil war
UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks is under investigation for receiving free personal training from a campus fitness trainer and for alleged misuse of public funds for travel.
The UK Daily Mail tells the story of Shabnam Nayeem, a Muslim woman in India who refused to participate in an arranged marriage and was targeted by her brother Mohammad in an “honor killing.”
Reuters – Britain said it would start preliminary talks with India on Friday about an eventual bilateral trade deal after last month’s referendum vote to leave the European Union, which has forced London to rethink its trade ties with the
From the Daily Mail: Countries are lining up to enter trade talks with Britain in the wake of the decision to leave the European Union, it was claimed last night. American politicians are clamouring for an agreement, while talks could soon begin
Contents: Bangladesh tries to recover from Dhaka terror attack, the worst in 40 years; Suspicions that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency supported the Dhaka attack
India’s first licensed female taxi driver, and the first woman to drive an Uber in India, was found dead and hanging from the ceiling of her home on Monday.
In a damning exposé based partly on leaked documents, Donald Trump has accused the Clinton Foundation of receiving funds in 2008 from controversial Indian politician Amar Singh in exchange for support for the Indo-U.S. nuclear accord.
