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India revoked Kashmir’s autonomy a year ago. What has happened since then?0
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- August 5, 2020
The government claimed it needed to clean up the region’s separatism and radicalization Reflections on security, economic, and political trends in Kashmir one year after India eliminated the region’s semi-autonomy provisions. By Sameer Lalwani August 5, 2020 This article was originally published in the Washington Post. A year ago, India eliminated the semi-autonomy provisions of Jammu and
READ MOREIndia: Police stormed a university in India. Muslim students say the violence was an act of revenge.1
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- February 18, 2020
By Joanna Slater Feb. 16, 2020 Washington Post ALIGARH, India — Inside Room 46 of the Morison Court dormitory, the university students huddled in the dark, too afraid to speak. Police in riot gear pounded on the door. The next sound was glass shattering, then came the thunk and hiss of tear gas. Something exploded once,
READ MOREGoogle redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking0
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- February 16, 2020
Crimea, Kashmir, Korea — Google redraws disputed borders, depending on who’s looking – The Washington Post The Silicon Valley firm alters maps under political pressure and the inscrutable whims of tech executives By Greg Bensinger Greg Bensinger Reporter covering algorithms and artificial intelligence February 14, 2020 SAN FRANCISCO — For more than 70 years, India
READ MOREIndia’s government is prioritizing nationalism over economic renewal0
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- February 6, 2020
By Milan Vaishnav January 30, 2020 Milan Vaishnav is senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is putting the finishing touches on its annual budget, to be released Feb. 1. In contrast to most other major
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India is paying the price for its obsession with billionaires0
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- February 21, 2018
By Barkha Dutt February 20 at 10:00 PM Email the author A billboard featuring Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra promoted the store of luxury jeweler Nirav Modi earlier this month in Mumbai. (Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images) Indians are furious over a $1.8 billion bank fraud case involving Nirav Modi, a billionaire and the man whom Vanity Fair called (in an astonishingly poor sense of timing)
READ MOREWhy the Trump administration is trying to make Muslim immigrants seem dangerous0
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- January 30, 2018
By Faiza Patel Faiza Patel is co-director of the liberty and national security program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. President Trump will address Congress again this week. His administration is calling for changes to immigration laws. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP/File) As the State of the Union address approaches,
READ MOREThree steps Myanmar should take to turn the Rohingya disaster around0
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- January 29, 2018
DemocracyPost, Opinion By Bill Richardson January 26, 2018 Bill Richardson is a former governor of New Mexico and a former United States ambassador to the United Nations. He is the founder of the Richardson Center for Global Engagement. In this Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, file photo, relocated Rohingya refugees arrive at the Balukhali refugee camp outside
READ MORETrump’s new Afghanistan policy has Pakistan angry and alarmed 0
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- August 29, 2017
By Pamela Constable Protesters hold an effigy of President Trump during an anti-U.S. rally Monday near the Afghan border in Chaman, Pakistan. (Akhter Gulfam/European Pressphoto Agency) ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A wave of anti-American anger has swept Pakistan this past week, triggered both by President Trump’s threat to punish the country for harboring insurgents and by his invitation
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