ROME — The Indian government has restored the Missionaries of Charity to its list of associations approved for receiving foreign funding after suspending the order’s license on Christmas.
Epidemiologist Prabhat Jha of the University of Toronto completed an analysis of India’s mortality data this week and concluded the true number of coronavirus deaths in the country is “substantially greater” than health officials reported.
Outraged Indian media outlets accused the Chinese Communist Party on Monday of “playing mind games” and hatching a “sinister design” to colonize the country following a bizarre declaration last week in which China renamed significant parts of Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian state, with Mandarin language names.
Two youths climbed the walls of a church compound in northern India the day after Christmas, demolished a life-size statue of Jesus, and vandalized the lighting system before fleeing the scene.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met on Monday in New Delhi to solidify over two dozen trade and arms deals between their respective countries, including a pledge to boost annual bilateral trade to $30 billion by 2025.
Joe Biden did not appear on stage when he was introduced to join the leaders who were present at the table as the forum began.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Monday that his country will target “net zero” carbon emissions by the year 2070. However, Modi said this goal was only attainable if wealthy countries contributed at least a trillion dollars toward international climate change programs.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited Pope Francis to “visit India” during his hour-long meeting with the pontiff in the Vatican this weekend.
Indian official Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister for the state of Uttar Pradesh, warned on Monday that India would launch airstrikes against the Taliban if it makes a move against Indian territory.
The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue has published a message wishing Hindus a happy feast of Deepavali (Diwali), which represents the victory “of light over darkness.”
Pope Francis received Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Vatican on Saturday, the first encounter between the two leaders.
The president also criticized White House reporters for their behavior in the Oval Office.
India’s largest opposition party, the Indian National Congress (INC) or “Congress Party,” said on Thursday it has been locked out of its Twitter account.
A presumably Hindu mob of some 30 people stormed the Catholic Nazareth Hospital in Mokama, northeast India, and assaulted patients and staff members, Crux reported Wednesday.
Widespread anti-Christian violence in India stems from “an environment of targeted hate” aggravated by a “sense of impunity generated in India’s administrative apparatus,” a Christian watchdog group declared in its semiannual report last week.
Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan resigned Wednesday ahead of a reported “cabinet reshuffle” allegedly planned by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India’s NDTV reported.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he phoned the Dalai Lama on Tuesday to personally greet him on his 86th birthday in a show of public support for the Buddhist leader, who has been exiled in northern India since 1959 following China’s forcible seizure of Tibet in 1950.
The Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), a privately owned think tank based in Mumbai, said Monday over 10 million Indians lost their jobs during the “second wave” of coronavirus infections and 97 percent of Indian households reported a decline of income since the beginning of the pandemic.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s approval rating fell to 63 percent this month, the lowest such figure recorded by the U.S.-based data intelligence company Morning Consult since it began tracking the leader’s popularity in August 2019.
A lawmaker belonging to India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party told constituents she drinks cow urine “every day” to prevent Chinese coronavirus infection, local outlets reported Monday.
Police in India’s national capital territory, Delhi, arrested 25 people as of Sunday for placing posters with a message critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the walls of public buildings across a dozen separate locations in the capital.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s borders policies have allowed at least 20,000 travellers from India to enter the country despite concerns over the novel variant of the coronavirus there.
Various Indian officials and politicians on Wednesday responded to a viral video of a most unpleasant “alternative therapy” by warning that people should not slather themselves in cow dung to ward off the Wuhan coronavirus.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated what were already harrowing scenarios of discrimination against Christians in India, the aid group Open Doors warned in an interview with Breitbart News this week.
With its growing economy, India has been high on London’s list of trade deal targets since Britain left the European Union last year.
A social media account run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mocked India’s deadly coronavirus crisis on Saturday with a post deleted after public outrage in both China and India.
Facebook revealed Thursday that it blocked all posts containing the hashtag #ResignModi in India for several hours Wednesday.
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) said on Sunday it has asked Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms to remove posts that create “panic” about the coronavirus surge in India by spreading “fake or misleading information.” Opposition politicians and international free speech advocates denounced the action as political censorship by the embattled government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
President Joe Biden promised to send aid to help India fight the coronavirus during a Monday call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called off a trip to India amid surging coronavirus cases in the country.
India boasted on Tuesday of having exported Chinese coronavirus vaccines to more than 80 countries in recent months, despite New Delhi’s ongoing struggle to adequately vaccinate its domestic population.
India’s coronavirus caseload hit a three-month high on Wednesday, prompting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to urge state leaders to act quickly and decisively to counteract the new infection surge.
Indian Health Minister Ashwini Choubey told the Rajya Sabha, the national legislature’s upper chamber, on Tuesday that an intranasal coronavirus vaccine candidate Bharat Biotech is developing had reached clinical development stages, the Times of India reported.
Modi’s public endorsement of Covaxin comes despite a failure by its manufacturer, Bharat Biotech, to release efficacy data proving its ability to impart immunity against the Chinese coronavirus.
Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday other countries are lining up behind Canberra’s drive to regulate Big Tech companies and force them to pay for local news.
Authorities in India are looking for survivors Sunday after a portion of a Himalayan glacier broke, sending a flood of water and debris into two dams and damaging numerous homes.
Activists supportive of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in India burned teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg in effigy on Thursday, while Indian police filed sedition charges against the creators of a protest toolkit Thunberg shared on Twitter.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg drew the ire of police prosecutors in India on Thursday after she used social media to offer running commentary and advice on violent protests by the country’s farmers.
India’s foreign ministry on Wednesday denounced “vested interest groups” for attempting to impose their agenda on farmers’ protests in New Delhi after Western celebrities commented on the demonstrations via social media this week.
India’s western state of Gujarat has changed the name of a locally-grown variety of dragon fruit to “lotus” fruit to avoid the original name’s association with China, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on Wednesday.
