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Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is held every 12 years in the northern city of Prayagraj, as Hindus believe bathing in sacred rivers brings salvation from the cycle of birth and death, and the absolution of sins. Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said 35 million people took part this week. CBC | World News
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India launches its 1st space docking mission
India’s space agency launched its first space docking mission on an Indian-made rocket on Monday in an attempt to become the fourth country to achieve the advanced technological feat. CBC | World News
Read More »Spare some digital change? In India, many transgender people use QR codes to beg
Managing money online is becoming increasingly widespread in India as more people use digital apps and QR codes for large and small transactions, including giving money to transgender people who resort to begging. Some trans people say digitalization helps them earn more and keeps them safer. CBC | World News
Read More »King Charles cancer update as monarch set to tour India next year in latest recovery sign
The King and Queen Camilla could visit India next year as part of their 2025 Royal Tour schedule. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Bureaucratic mishap brings happy ending to ban on controversial Salman Rushdie book in India
An Indian court has overturned a 36-year-old order banning the import of copies of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses because nobody could find the original order. CBC | World News
Read More »Fire kills 10 newborns in intensive care unit in northern India
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. CBC | World News
Read More »India criticizes Canada for linking minister to plots targeting Sikhs, calling allegation ‘absurd’
India has officially protested the Canadian government’s allegation that the country’s powerful Home Minister Amit Shah had ordered the targeting of Sikh activists inside Canada, calling it “absurd and baseless.” CBC | World News
Read More »India makes it clear it’s not interested in a western alliance
India’s PM Narendra Modi has made a number of gestures this week that appear to signal India will not be taking sides with the West and its Asian allies against a Russia-China axis. US and Canadian accusations of murder plots aimed at India’s enemies have not helped the West to make its case. CBC | World News
Read More »India braces for impact of Dana, as officials aim to get hundreds of thousands away from storm
Indian authorities shut schools, evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and cancelled trains in parts of the country as rescue teams braced on Thursday for a tropical storm brewing in the Bay of Bengal. CBC | World News
Read More »Inside the world of Lawrence Bishnoi, the Indian gangster Canada says India is using as a proxy
The murder of a Punjabi rapper, repeated death threats against a Bollywood star and the killing of a Mumbai-based politician — all are alleged to be the work of Indian gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. Now, the RCMP is claiming the Bishnoi gang is targeting members of Canada’s Sikh community, allegedly at the behest of the Indian government. CBC | World News
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