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Bangladesh will seek extradition of ex-premier Sheikh Hasina from India

Nov. 17, 2024 10:22 AM EST

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s interim leader and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Sunday that his administration will seek the extradition of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India, where has been in exile since fleeing a mass uprising in August. In a...

Fire engulfs hospital ward in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies

Nov. 16, 2024 08:19 AM EST

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies and injuring 16 others, authorities said. The fire occurred late Friday at a hospital in Jhansi city in India's Uttar Pradesh state. Officials said...

Payal Kapadia, director of 'All We Imagine as Light,' sees another way

Nov. 15, 2024 12:36 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiction moves stealthily through Payal Kapadia’s films. The Indian filmmaker’s first movie, “Night of Knowing Nothing,” is a documentary about the student strike at the Film and Television Institute of India, Kapadia’s alma mater, following the appointment...

Clean energy could create millions of tons of waste in India. Some are working to avoid that

Nov. 15, 2024 00:01 AM EST

KENCHANAHALLI, India (AP) — On the edges of a dense forest in southern India, six women in a small garage are busy stitching cloth bags, pants, hospital gowns and office uniforms with automated sewing machines. About four years ago, power cuts constantly interrupted their work....

India's Modi likely to find comfort in Trump's return and a shared worldview

Nov. 14, 2024 09:38 AM EST

NEW DELHI (AP) — Donald Trump’s return to the White House has made many countries anxious and recalculating where they stand with the U.S., but India appears to be welcoming the change that may embolden nationalist leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “I know today a lot...

Turkey's trade minister says the country expects to be offered partner status in the BRICS bloc

Nov. 13, 2024 11:16 AM EST

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey expects to be offered “partner country" status with the BRICS bloc of developing economies, the country's trade minister said Wednesday. Turkey requested to join the group as a full member earlier this year with the stated aim of “simultaneously”...

Indian doubles specialist Rohan Bopanna still going strong at 44 with routine of yoga and ice baths

Nov. 12, 2024 08:44 AM EST

TURIN, Italy (AP) — His beard is full of gray hair. His knees have no cartilage left in them. And his fitness routine requires daily yoga sessions and midnight ice baths. At the age of 44, Indian doubles specialist Rohan Bopanna is still going strong, though. Strong...

India's ban on Salman Rushdie 'The Satanic Verses' may end — thanks to missing paperwork

Nov. 08, 2024 17:06 PM EST

NEW DELHI (AP) — The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie's “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt — not because of a change of heart more than two years after the author’s near-fatal stabbing, but because of what amounts to some missing paperwork. Earlier...

Champions Trophy host Pakistan says it's not been told India wants to play cricket games elsewhere

Nov. 08, 2024 10:47 AM EST

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A top official of the Pakistan Cricket Board declined Friday to confirm media reports that India has decided against playing any games in host Pakistan during next year’s Champions Trophy. “My view is if there’s any problems, they (India) should tell...

2 suspected rebels and 2 members of government-run militia are killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir

Nov. 08, 2024 06:33 AM EST

NEW DELHI (AP) — Two suspected militants were killed in a gunfight with government forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Friday, while assailants killed two members of a government-sponsored militia elsewhere in the disputed region. The region, divided between India...