India’s Taj Mahal is the world’s most popular Unesco-liste...
May 11 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
India's Taj Mahal is the most searched for Unesco World Heritage site in the world, with an average of 1.4 million searches per month...
Don’t reduce BSF from first-class border guarding force to...
May 11 ,2022
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By: Sanjeev Chopra
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The 270,000-s...
VPN companies say they will quit India over new rules to s...
May 11 ,2022
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By: Rohini Mohan
VPN allows people to browse the Internet privately by concealing IP address, geographical location and encrypting data. PHOTO: R...
Ahead of Quad summit, US hopes Russia’s war and China’s as...
May 11 ,2022
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By: Joshua Cartwright
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) with US President Joe Biden in the White House on September 24, 2021. As Biden prepares to...
China intends to keep ‘boundary issue’ alive with India, s...
May 10 ,2022
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By: Shehesh Alex Philip
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Protests halt demolition in New Delhi Muslim neighbourhood
May 10 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The new law would fast-track naturalisation for persecuted religious minorities from some neighbouring Islamic countries, but exclude...
Delimitation shows India’s democracy continues to struggle...
May 10 ,2022
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By: Praveen Swami
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Desire for pan-Hindu identity, hatred for Bangladeshis – W...
May 10 ,2022
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By: Tanushree Pandey
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Indian power plants are running out of coal
May 10 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Electricity has been getting increasingly scarce in India. In a recent survey two-thirds of households said they had been facing r...
Restoring the British South Asian community’s solidarity a...
May 9 ,2022
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By: Nafees Mahmud
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Bollywood A-listers’ status symbol: vanity vans that inclu...
May 9 ,2022
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By: Neeta Lal
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‘Khalistan’ flags found at Himachal Pradesh Assembly gate...
May 9 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
‘Khalistan’ flags on the main gates and walls of Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha complex, at Tapovan in Kangra district, on...
As alternatives to the Congress emerge, the BJP ought to b...
May 9 ,2022
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By: Shekhar Gupta
Illustration: Binay Sinha
Between the 2009 and 2014 to 2019 general elections, the BJP nearly doubled its national vote...
Make hay while sun shines - Indian, Chinese ways
May 9 ,2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
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Europe and Russia are entering a fateful competition over ene...
Justice in India is growing ever more partisan
May 9 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
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Can Modi overcome India’s Ukraine stance?
May 9 ,2022
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By: Michael Kugelman
Welcome to South Asia Brief.
The highlights this week: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inks new deals in a trip to Europ...
India’s Modi faces a dilemma: Keep voters happy or feed th...
May 9 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
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Resuming Pakistan-India relations: Opportunities and Chall...
May 9 ,2022
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By: Riaz Khokhar
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India Abandons the Rohingyas
May 1 ,2022
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By: Haziq Qadri & Qadri Inzamam
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‘How is everything normal?’ Srinagar Jamia Masjid shutdown...
April 30 ,2022
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By: Ananya Bhardwaj
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India PM Modi vows to build semiconductor production hub
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By: Sayan Chakraborty
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