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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.

United Airlines is prohibited from placing employees with religious and medical exemptions on unpaid leave until October 26.

Police in the Indian city of Mumbai recently shut down a group of fraudulent Chinese coronavirus vaccine clinics for distributing fake vaccines and counterfeit certificates to over 2,053 paying clients, the Times of India reported on Thursday.

Police in the western Indian state of Maharashtra registered a case, local reports noted on Monday, against the owner of a mattress factory in the city of Jalgaon after the facility was found stuffing mattresses with used sanitary masks.

Indian media outlets recalled in covering Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s congratulations to former Vice President Joe Biden on American media proclaiming him president-elect this weekend that Biden has repeatedly claimed to have family in Mumbai.

A study commissioned by the city of Mumbai revealed on Tuesday that over half of the people living in its famously crowded slums have antibodies for the Wuhan coronavirus in their blood.

A 37-year-old Indian woman was killed by her husband last week after she allegedly served him too little mutton, or lamb, The Times of India reported Wednesday.

JERUSALEM  – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he hopes to slash flight times between Tel Aviv and India’s financial capital Mumbai, days after Air India ran the first scheduled Israel-bound service to cross Saudi airspace.

Contents: Portions of Indian-governed Kashmir shut down after deadly clashes; Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) becomes leading jihadist group in Kashmir

Alarmist scientists have been caught red-handed tampering with raw data in order to exaggerate sea level rise.

Contents: Widespread riots in Pakistan triggered by phony blasphemy charges; Pakistan releases Hafiz Saeed, mastermind of the horrific 2008 Mumbai massacre

The editorial board of Chinese state newspaper Global Times penned a piece blasting “India’s bigotry toward Pakistan,” a staunch Chinese ally, following Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Contents: India’s ‘Operation All-Out’ brings Kashmir closer to all-out war; Kashmir escalations building to all-out war; Multiple terrorist attacks across Pakistan kill nearly 50

Indian police announced least 70 arrests on Thursday in connection with a massive telephone scam to cheat American taxpayers out of phony “back taxes.”

Contents: New terrorist attack in Kashmir threatens India-Pakistan retaliation; Russia accuses US of intentionally striking Syria’s army to support ISIS

Contents: Tensions rising between Pakistan and India over Kashmir issue; Mastermind of 2008 Mumbai attack leads Pakistan protests against India

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

The Zika virus has a long history in India, so there is much concern about the current outbreak, even though the region primarily affected is in South America, and Asia has not been affected much yet.

Contents: Terror attack on India’s Pathankot air base exposes weak defenses; India threatens retaliation for the Pathankot attack; Pathankot air base incident revives memories of the ’26/11′ Mumbai attack in 2008

A homeless Indian man who had been pronounced dead woke up on an autopsy table, shocking hospital staff who were about to begin a post-mortem, authorities said Tuesday. Police in Mumbai said they found the man, who has not been

Contents: Indian forces cross Myanmar border to strike at militants; Cross-border raid implications for India with Pakistan and China; Reports of breakthrough in Greece’s debt crisis

Pakistan reneges on promise to prosecute 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind; Obama to meet with Cuban leader Raul Castro; Pakistan adopts a neutral stance in the Yemen war

(Reuters) – A Pakistani court freed on bail on Friday Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, accused of plotting a 2008 militant assault on India’s financial capital that killed 166 people and seriously strained ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours, his lawyer said.

Authorities in Mumbai, India, arrested Shirin Dalvi, editor of the Uru Daily Avadhnama newspaper, for printing a cartoon from Charlie Hebdo. It appeared on the front page of the January 17 edition. Residents in Mumbra in Thane complained to the police about the cartoon.

For the first time, Cameroon’s air force conducted air strikes in support of the army against Boko Haram positions in northern Cameroon, forcing the terrorists to retreat.