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Bollywood’s Role in Hindutva’s 2024 Election Strategy . An increasing number of politically-motivated films are mobilizing Indian voters, especially the youth, toward voting for the BJP.

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Three missiles misfired during Indian army exercise in Rajasthan: report. India Today reported that the firing exercise was being held at the Pokhran field when the three surface-to-air missiles were misfired.

Why Are Indians So Angry at Bill Gates? . The latest backlash against the Gates Foundation in India is the result of years’ worth of concerns raised by human rights activists and civil society.

Bangladesh reacts to Chinese warning over joining Quad. China rather pre-emptively warned Bangladesh against joining the US-led Quad alliance, saying that Dhaka's participation in the "anti-Beijing club" would result in "substantial damage" to bilateral relations.

Covid-19: Active cases drop for 3rd day but deaths touch record 4.2k. Active Covid-19 cases in India have decreased for three straight days for the first time since early March, as has the seven-day average of daily cases, both indicating that the country may have reached, or is closing to reaching, the peak of the devastating second wave of the pandemic

Indian politician calls for burqa ban claiming ‘terrorists’ use them to hide from police. The state of Uttar Pradesh’s labor minister Raghuraj Singh has called for an outright ban on women wearing burqas, suggesting that terrorists have been using them to elude authorities.

‘Stop calling me Greta of India’: 8yo climate activist says comparisons to Thunberg ‘delete’ her own campaign. Young Indian environmental activist Licypriya Kangujam slammed journalists for comparing her to Greta Thunberg, despite the fact that she began campaigning before the world knew who her Swedish colleague even was.

Gender in South Asia.. WE are living in a divided and unequal world that is socially fractured and economically uneven. Hatred, hypocrisy, prejudice, conflict and war are creating uncertainties and destabilising societies. Some regions are enjoying peace, security and prosperity, while others are struggling to break a chronic cycle of conflict and violence.

Does JNU campus attack mean India is failing its young? Its list of alumni includes a Nobel-Prize winning economist, former prime ministers of Libya and Nepal, and many leading politicians, diplomats, artists and academics. It is also an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research, and is among one of India's top ranked universities.

Assam NRC: What next for 1.9 million 'stateless' Indians? India has published the final version of a list which effectively strips about 1.9 million people in the north-eastern state of Assam of their citizenship.

Five things to know about Indian Kashmir's changed status The Indian government on Monday issued a presidential order to scrap the constitutionally mandated special status of Kashmir, the country's only Muslim-majority region.

Triple talaq: India criminalises Muslim 'instant divorce' India's parliament has approved a bill that makes the Muslim practice of "instant divorce" a criminal offence.

India announces retaliatory trade tariffs against the US India has said that, from Sunday, it will impose tariffs on 28 US products, including almonds and apples.

Zakir Musa: India's 'most wanted' killed in Kashmir. Zakir Musa, whose real name is Zakir Rashid Bhat, was a close aide of Burhan Wani, a charismatic Kashmiri militant leader, whose killing by security forces in 2016 sparked widespread protests.

India's South dance to a different tune. Voters in both Kerala and Tamil Nadu show socialist inclination in democratic India.

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