A recent episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight has been blocked in India after host John Oliver went on an extended rant criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to a new report. The censorship didn’t come from Modi’s administration but rather a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Co.
President Donald Trump corrected a reporter on Tuesday for suggesting his travel ban from certain countries was discriminatory against Muslims.
India will buy $3 billion worth of military equipment, including attack helicopters, U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday, in further evidence of deepening ties between the two countries acting as a counterbalance to the rising weight of China in the region.
Protesters fought with police in New Delhi, India, on Monday over India’s highly controversial citizenship law. A policeman and two civilians identified as Muslims were killed just hours before the arrival of visiting U.S. President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump addressed an enormous cheering crowd with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India on Monday, praising his host country’s progress and economic success.
The number of violent attacks on Christians in India has been steadily increasing during the administration of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Telegraph reported Sunday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi boasted to a gathering of military officers in New Delhi on Tuesday that his country could defeat Pakistan in less than a week if war broke out, as it perpetually threatens to do in the disputed Kashmir province. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry denounced Modi’s “irresponsible and warmongering” remarks on Wednesday.
Although massive protests against India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) have dominated international media coverage, there have been some demonstrations in favor of the law.
Five men attacked a group of Christmas carolers in Tamil Nadu last week, including a 17-year-old boy, as part of a spate of pre-Christmas violence against Christians.
Thousands of Muslims chanted “Remove Modi!” after Friday prayers at New Delhi’s Jama Masjid mosque, calling for the removal of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a citizenship law that makes immigration easier for non-Muslims.
Indian police made hundreds of arrests on Thursday to enforce a ban on protests imposed after the passage of a controversial law that makes it easier for refugees from neighboring Muslim-majority countries to become citizens if they faced religious persecution at home.
Protests against India’s new citizenship law at Jamia Millia Islamia University on Sunday turned violent as over a hundred activists battled police.
Former legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was found guilty of rape on Monday in one of India’s most closely-watched sexual assault trials.
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday refused to apologize for controversial remarks in which he accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP party of creating a culture of widespread sexual assault.
The debate over legislation that would offer religious minorities fleeing Muslim states citizenship on the grounds of “religious persecution” began Monday in India’s Parliament.
Police in India arrested nine Tibetans, India media revealed on Monday, suspected of planning protests against Chinese Communist Party chairman Xi Jinping. Police have not offered any evidence that those arrested were planning any criminal behavior.
Thieves in India this week removed some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes from the ground on what would have been his 150th birthday, the BBC Hindi reported on Thursday.
India on Thursday announced new restrictions on universities seeking to cooperate with Chinese institutions. The order came down only a week before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet with Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan used his address at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday to decry “Islamophobia” faced by Muslims worldwide, a trend he said was exacerbated by the 9/11 attacks.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Friday to urging globalism and “multilateralism,” arguing that India has a “unique” understanding of “belonging beyond borders.”
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who co-chairs Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) presidential campaign, claimed on Sunday evening that his fellow Indian Americans will not vote for President Donald Trump simply because he showed up to a rally with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Pete Buttigieg described Trump and Pence as the “end of American leadership” in the world.
“We in India connected well with President Trump and with the words of candidate Trump, ‘Abki Baar, Trump Sarkar’, rang loud and clear,” Modi said.
President Donald Trump did not endorse Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s green-cards-for-India bill when he spoke at the Sunday rally in Texas attended by 50,000 Indian supporters of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
After the speech, Modi approached Trump and urged him to walk around the stadium with him.
A Kashmiri and Sikh advocate group sued Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a U.S. circuit court this week for alleged human rights violations in New Delhi-held Kashmir.
President Donald Trump will appear at a political rally for India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Houston, Texas, amid the growing push by business lobbies to raise the inflow of H-1B visa workers from India.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed on Thursday to loan the Russian government $1 billion for the development of its far-east territories.
Two Indians have been sent to jail for just three years after smuggling hundreds of Indians into the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump this week called the top leaders of India and Pakistan in a bid to mitigate the growing friction between the two nuclear-armed South Asian rivals over the disputed Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.
India’s Hindu-nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed his decision to revoke New Delhi-administered Kashmir of its autonomy last week as “path-breaking.”
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned his countrymen about the risks of overpopulation on Wednesday, arguing that having small families was its own “form of patriotism.”
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted this week that his decision to revoke Kashmir’s autonomy will end “separatism, corruption, terrorism” in the restive region.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan this week warned that India’s decision to revoke Kashmir’s limited autonomy could lead to “genocide.”
Lawmakers in India this week outlawed the centuries-old practice that allows a Muslim man to instantly divorce by saying the word “talaq” three times in his wife’s presence.
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind signed into law Wednesday a bill banning the Muslim practice of “triple talaq” divorce, which permitted men to divorce their wives simply by repeating the word “talaq” (divorce) three times.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper applauded the United States on Monday for offering to mediate the ongoing Kashmir sovereignty dispute between India and Pakistan, admitting China stands to benefit significantly if Kashmir becomes peaceful enough for Beijing to invest in infrastructure products there.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said he was “surprised” by India’s reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer to help resolve the deadly dispute between their countries.
The Indian government denied U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked him to mediate the territorial dispute over Kashmir between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, arguing that it is a bilateral issue no third party can help resolve.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed a crowd of some 30,000 Pakistani-Americans in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, promising that under his administration a “new Pakistan” is “being created in front of your eyes.”
