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In a landmark ruling Thursday that could usher in an era of greater freedom for gays and lesbians in India, New Delhi’s highest court decriminalized homosexuality.
“Discrimination is antithesis of equality,” Delhi High Court judges wrote in a...
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India has reiterated its demand for “real reform” of the UN Security Council with expansion in both permanent and non-permanent membership of the world body’s top decision making organ.
Noting that the overwhelming majority of member...
Sri Lanka’s economy can bounce back from its weakest growth in six years and become the “Hong Kong of India” as the end of almost three decades of civil war boosts business opportunities, HSBC Private Bank said.
Decades of fighting on the Indian...
In the summer of 2007, as the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party galloped towards an absolute majority in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, a bureaucrat in the outgoing regime took a bet on the fourth-time Chief Minister’s career trajectory. “You...
An Indian community leader has claimed that over 20 incidents of “curry bashing” have taken place in Sydney in the past 30 days, and said there is an urgent need to address the issue as most students are reluctant to lodge any complaint out...
At least 62 people were killed as cyclone “Aila” ravaged the southern coastlines of Bangladesh, where tidal surges inundated vast tracts of land and breached coastal embankments, officials said on Tuesday.
The full extent of devastation in...
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: Iran and Pakistan on Monday decided to go ahead with an ambitious project to wheel gas from the Persian Gulf without India and signed
a preliminary agreement to build a pipeline for the purpose.
The deal, coming after 13 years of...
At least 21 people died Monday when Cyclone Aila swept through the coastal Indian state of West Bengal, authorities said.
The Press Trust of India said officials confirmed 14 of the fatalities occurred in the South 24 Parganas district, followed by...
India on Monday voiced its worries over the underground nuclear test carried out by North Korea, saying it is a “development of serious concern”.
“It is a development of serious concern. India is against nuclear proliferation,”...
S.M. Krishna’s name cropped up as a ministerial probable over the last two days. M. Veerappa Moily’s never did. C.P. Joshi was mentioned casually in conversations among Rajasthan Congress workers at the party headquarters.
If they made it as the...
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