Activists of Pasban-e-Hurriyat, a Kashmiri refugee organisation, hold an anti-India protest in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir on May 22, 2023, against the G20 tourism meet being held in the Indian-administered Kashmir. (Sajjad QAYYUM / AFP) SRINAGAR, India -- A G20...
LUCKNOW, India - A woman won a local election in India almost two weeks after her death as supporters kept their pledge to back her in a sign of respect, officials said. Ashiya Bi polled at nearly 44 percent in the race for a municipal civic body seat in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh...
In this June 27, 2022, file photo, US President Joe Biden (R) greets India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they arrive to attend the outreach program on at Elmau Castle, southern Germany, during the Group of Seven Summit. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States -- US President Joe Biden...
MALAPPURAM, India -- At least 22 people died when a tourist boat capsized in India, officials said Monday, with many of those on board thought to be children. It was not clear why the double-decker boat carrying at least 30 people tipped over in the southern state of Kerala's Malappuram district...
ANDRO, India -- Father-of-five S. Mamang Vaiphei hid in the jungle for three nights after a mob attacked his village in Manipur, the remote Indian state where ethnic violence has reportedly killed at least 54 people. Around 23,000 people have fled the unrest which erupted last week in the hilly...
The Philippine Navy (PN) has deployed a 140-strong contingent to Singapore for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-India Maritime Exercise (AIME) 2023 from May 2 to 8 which will incorporate drills among participating countries to practice a code for unplanned encounters at sea. ...
IDUKKI, India -- Indian forest officials have tranquillised and relocated a rice-loving wild tusker elephant that killed at least six people, media reports said. The male elephant -- dubbed Arikomban, or "rice-tusker" -- was infamous for raiding shops for rice and grains in the southern state of...
AMRITSAR, India -- A gas leak killed 11 people in India on Sunday, an official said, in the latest deadly industrial accident in the vast developing economy of 1.4 billion people. The gas leak happened in Giaspura, an industrial area of Ludhiana in the northern state of Punjab. National Disaster...
RAIPUR, India - Ten police and their driver were killed in India's central Chhattisgarh state Wednesday when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, an attack police blamed on Maoist rebels. India's long-running Maoist insurgency began in the 1960s and has cost thousands of lives in the...
DEHRADUN, India -- Hundreds of villagers in northern India were under orders not to leave their homes after dark on Monday after two people were killed in tiger attacks, authorities said. Last week India said its wild tiger population had risen above 3,000 but the growing numbers combined with...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) How about a digital public infrastructure partnership composed of the Philippines, the United States (US), and India? House Speaker Martin Romualdez came up with this idea follwing his attendance to the Digital Public Infrastructure Lecture on...
NEW DELHI, India -- India's wild tiger population -- by far the largest in the world -- has risen above 3,000, according to a census released Sunday, boosting efforts to conserve the endangered species. The largest of all cats, tigers once roamed throughout central, eastern and southern Asia. But in...
