Indian rebel leaders arrested in Dhaka, reports say
New Delhi - A major separatist group in India's north-eastern state of Assam claimed Thursday that two of its senior leaders were arrested in Bangladesh and handed over to Indian authorities, news reports said. The banned United Liberation Front of A...
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Eight children die as boat capsizes in India's Kerala state
New Delhi - At least eight schoolchildren drowned when a boat capsized in a river in India's southern state of Kerala, police said Thursday. The accident occurred in the Chaliyar river in Mallapuram district some 340 kilometres north of state capital...
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Minister says India cannot view Islam as an alien faith
New Delhi - Muslims had contributed much to the building of modern India and the country could not view Islam as an alien faith, federal Home Minister P Chidambaram said Tuesday, according to news reports. Chidambaram was addressing a gathering of 10...
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Bangladesh pledges not to shelter international terrorists
Dhaka - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed on Tuesday declared that her Muslim-majority nation would never allow international terrorists to operate in the country. Bangladesh will never allow its territory to be used for launching any te...
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Shutdown in India's Punjab over anti-Sikh riots
New Delhi - Traffic was disrupted and schools closed in several towns in India's northern state of Punjab Tuesday due to a day-long shutdown called by radical Sikh groups to protest alleged inaction against those involved in the anti-Sikh riots of 19...
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Child stripped, chained by shopkeepers for stealing in India
New Delhi - A 10-year-old boy was assaulted, stripped naked, chained and dragged several metres by shopkeepers in northern India for allegedly stealing 20 rupees (0.42 dollars), news reports said Tuesday. The boy named Sainki was beaten by shopkeeper...
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Death toll in India truck-train collision rises to 15
New Delhi - Four more people who were injured in a train-truck collision in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh died in hospital, raising the death toll in the accident to 15, officials said Monday. The accident occurred Sunday afternoon when the...
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