India

Indian PM Modi guest of honour at France’s Bastille Day celebrations, taking place under tight security after the country was swept by riots.

The United Nations marked World Population Day on Tuesday, publishing a forecast that the Earth’s population will hit 9.7 billion by the year 2050 and surpass 10 billion before the end of the century.

Taiwan-based tech giant Foxconn announced Monday its withdrawal from a $19.5 billion joint semiconductor manufacturing deal with Indian metal and energy company Vedanta.

The Times of India (TOI) reported on Monday that a blockade on food and medical supplies by the valley-dwelling Hindu majority of the Manipur province is starving the hill-dwelling Kuki Christian tribes, thousands of whom have been displaced from their homes into refugee camps.

A video showing a member of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) urinating on an indigenous worker in the state of Madhya Pradesh went viral on Tuesday, sparking social media outrage and prompting the arrest of the man featured in the clip.

India asserted itself as the lone member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) not to endorse communist China’s predatory Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) during a virtual summit Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden’s warm welcome to Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose tenure has seen a 300-percent spike in attacks on Christians in the country, was a “big miss” for human rights, David Curry, the president and CEO of Global Christian Relief, told Breitbart News this week.

Rahul Gandhi, leader of India’s opposition Indian National Congress (INC) party, announced on Tuesday that he will visit the conflict-torn state of Manipur on Thursday and Friday.

The Catholic organization Aid to the Church in Need denounced an “increasingly muted response” to religious persecution in China and India.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first state visit to Egypt on Saturday, landing in Cairo after departing the United States for two days of meetings with Egyptian business leaders and officials, including President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday lashed out at former U.S. President Barack Obama for saying India’s government should do more to protect Muslim citizens.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed shock on Thursday when confronted about the dramatic escalation in violence against non-Hindu religious minorities in his country during his tenure, claiming to be “really surprised” and denying any religious discrimination.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on Capitol Hill on Thursday to address a joint meeting of Congress as part of a multi-day tour through the United States aimed at building on U.S.-India relations.

India once again broke its previous Russian oil import records in May, Reuters reported on Wednesday, buying 1.95 million barrels per day (bpd) that month. About 40 percent of the oil India imported in May came from Russia.

General Electric Aerospace on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to manufacture fighter jet engines in India, putting ink on a major deal that was a much-anticipated feature of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States this week.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave leftist American President Joe Biden a handcrafted box featuring various gifts, including an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh and a silver oil lamp, on Wednesday evening, a gift intended to honor the president having lived through “one thousand full moons.”

Far-left Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced this week they will not attend an address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A contingent of Indian Army soldiers from Kerala published a video on Wednesday performing yoga underwater, an effort to honor the International Day of Yoga.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in New York on Wednesday, en route to a state dinner and address to Congress in Washington on Thursday.

President Joe Biden is under increasing pressure from the left to confront Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about his human rights record.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a yoga session featuring New York City Mayor Eric Adams, actor Richard Gere, and representatives from at least 180 countries at the United Nations on Wednesday morning, his first major public appearance during this week’s trip to America.

The White House is planning to wine-and-vegetarian-dine Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Washington this week, in the hopes that Modi will agree to closer cooperation on defense and a coordinated strategy against Chinese aggression.

The Indian Supreme Court on Tuesday refused an urgent plea to dispatch troops to the province of Manipur, where Christian mountain-dwelling tribes are clashing with lowland Hindus.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published prior to his departure to the United States on Monday that his visit will focus on elevating his country to a “much higher, deeper, and wider profile,” both as a partner to America and in international venues such as the United Nations.

President Joe Biden’s deputies are extracting as many visa workers as they can from India — even as many thousands of women are being abandoned by their migrant husbands.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday he will lead a yoga session at U.N. headquarters in New York City on June 21, which the United Nations has proclaimed as the “International Day of Yoga.”

A spate of “terrorist” attacks resulted in the burning down of homes, including the home of a local community leader, and at least nine deaths on Wednesday in Manipur, northern India, where the majority Hindu Meitei tribe has engaged in a campaign to eradicate the smaller, mostly Christian tribes of the region since early May.

Petroleum Minister Musadik Malik of Pakistan confirmed on Monday that his country made a major purchase of Russian crude oil using the Chinese yuan currency, presented as a rare public relations victory for a government struggling to contain routine riots.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says Ukraine’s Zelensky will not be invited to the September G20 summit in New Delhi.

India and China are continuing to monopolize the United States’ H-1B visa program which is regularly used by corporations and big businesses to lay off American professionals from their jobs and replace them with foreign visa workers.

John Kirby defended Joe Biden’s decision to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington, calling India a “vibrant democracy.”

Chinese delegates to the Shangri-La Dialogue in Shanghai this weekend scoffed at the notion India’s military could challenge the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China, while Chinese state media portrayed a deadly Indian train crash as evidence that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is incompetent and untrustworthy.

Australian left-wingers are alarmed by a May 30 poll showing that most Australians favor caps on migration “until [Australians] have sufficient affordable housing.”

Data from two top ship tracking firms revealed that shipments of Russian crude oil to China and India, Russia’s top two buyers, rose by ten percent in May to hit record levels despite the Biden administration’s pleas to cut down on Moscow’s prodigious income stream by respecting sanctions and price caps.

The Chinese government announced on Wednesday that it has taken “appropriate” measures in retaliation for India refusing to grant visas to Chinese reporters.

Rajesh Biswas, a food inspector working for the state of Chhattisgarh in India, was fined 53,092 rupees (about $640) and suspended from his position on Friday because he ordered over four million liters of water drained from a reservoir so he could look for his missing cell phone.