Tag: India

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right after signing agreements in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Xi vowed to bring prosperity to Asia and create opportunities for the world as he and Modi began talks Thursday to deepen cooperation through investment and trade. (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)

India, China vow cooperation as troops face off

Nirmala George · September 18, 2014 2:31 pm

Trade, investment hopes as China’s Xi visits India

Misrakaty Daigle · September 17, 2014 12:59 pm

Kashmiris hang on to a tree to prevent being swept away by floodwaters in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. The death toll from floods in Pakistan and India reached 400 on Tuesday and have put more than half a million people in peril and rendered thousands homeless in the two neighboring states. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Raging floods kill over 440 in Pakistan, India

Chaudhryasif Shahzad · September 9, 2014 6:56 pm

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, left, waves at his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi as he leaves after a ceremonial welcome in New Delhi, India, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. Abbott is on a two-day visit to India. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

Australia signs uranium export deal with India

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 3:52 pm

People walk outside the Taj Mahal hotel, which was one of the targets of the 2008 terror attacks by a small group of Pakistani militants in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. At least three Indian states with large Muslim populations have been put on alert in the wake of a video release where the leader of Al-Qaida says the terrorist group has expanded into India.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Al-Qaida leader says it has expanded into India

Tim Sullivan · September 4, 2014 1:50 pm

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech during his lecture at the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. Modi is currently on a five-day visit to Japan. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Modi promises red carpet for Japan firms in India

Elaine Kurtenbach · September 2, 2014 10:01 am

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2012 file photo, an Indian girl poses for photos with an Indian flag at the Indo China border in Bumla at an altitude of 15,700 feet (4,700 meters) above sea level in Arunachal Pradesh, India. For more than 50 years, it has pitted India against China - a smoldering dispute over who should control a swath of land larger than Austria. Two militaries have skirmished. A brief, bloody war has been fought. And today, thousands of soldiers from both countries sit deployed along their shared frontier, doing little but watching each other. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)

What dispute? India and China ignore land squabble

Tim Sullivan · August 30, 2014 5:36 am

Indian and Japanese students walk together near a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi at Global Indian International School in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. Japan and India both have much to gain from a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and more than a dozen Indian steel, energy and IT tycoons that begins Saturday in the ancient capital of Kyoto. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

India, Japan each seek deals during Modi’s visit

Elaine Kurtenbach · August 29, 2014 9:42 am

Indians gather around a table inside a state-owned bank to open their accounts as part of a massive countrywide campaign to open millions of accounts for the poor in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014.The measure is aimed at some 150 million Indians who are off the financial grid and vulnerable to black market money lenders. As an incentive the federal government is providing 100,000 rupees ($1,650) in life insurance to every account holder. (AP Photo /Manish Swarup)

India urges millions of poor to open bank accounts

Katy Daigle · August 28, 2014 12:16 pm

Rabbi Moshe Gourarie from New Jersey looks at a wall riddled with bullet marks from the 2008 terror attack at the Chabad Center, during the reopening of the Jewish center in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Rabbis from across Asia on Tuesday celebrated the reopening of the center targeted by rampaging Pakistani gunmen who stormed through Mumbai on a 60-hour killing spree that left 166 people dead. Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, who now runs the Mumbai center, said the rebuilt six-story Nariman House would house a $2.5 million Jewish Museum as well as Mumbai's first memorial to those killed in the attacks, which also targeted a train station, a popular tourist cafe and the luxury Taj Mahal hotel. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Jewish center reopens 6 years after Mumbai attacks

Rishi Lekhi · August 26, 2014 12:58 pm

A woman holds a crying child as relatives of victims gather at the spot of a stampede at the Kamta Nath Hindu temple in Chitrakoot, India, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. A pre-dawn stampede killed 10 people Monday as tens of thousands of Hindus were worshipping in an annual procession marking the holy day of Somvati Amavasya. (AP Photo/Amar Deep)

Stampede at Hindu holy procession kills 10 Indians

Chonchui Ngashangva · August 25, 2014 3:27 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014 file photo, Indian Sikh protesters shout slogans and burn tires during a protest against Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi for his recent remark on the country's 1984 anti-Sikh riots, in Jammu, India. India has blocked the release of a film on the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Rahul's grandmother, saying it glorifies her killers and could trigger violent protests, officials said Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. India's film certification board said the film glorified the two Sikh bodyguards who killed Gandhi to avenge her suppression of an insurgency that culminated in an army assault on the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

India blocks film on Indira Gandhi assassination

Nirmala George · August 22, 2014 1:13 pm