GUWAHATI, INDIA (REUTERS) – Indian police on Thursday (Jan 3) took a Rohingya Muslim family of five to the border by bus, readying to deport them to neighbouring Myanmar. They would be the second such group expelled in four months during a crackdown on illegal immigrants. India’s Hindu nationalist government regards the Rohingya as illegal aliens and a security risk…. Read more »
NEW DELHI • Mr Vijaypat Singhania thought he was keeping his billion-dollar Indian textile empire in the family when he gifted control of the Raymond Group to his son Gautam three years ago. But their relationship has disintegrated spectacularly since, with the father accusing the son of cheating him out of an exclusive apartment and of unceremoniously kicking him out… Read more »
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA (AFP) – Clashes erupted between Hindu hardliners and police in the southern state of Kerala for a second day on Thursday (Jan 3), after two women defied traditionalists to enter one of India’s holiest temples. Violence across Kerala on Wednesday (Jan 2) left one person dead and 15 injured after news spread that the two women, escorted by police and… Read more »
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India rejected US President Donald Trump’s comments mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funding a library in Afghanistan, saying on Thursday (Jan 3) that New Delhi has provided US$3 billion (S$4.1 billion) in development assistance to the war-torn country. The US President on Wednesday took a swipe at what he claimed were Mr Modi’s frequent comments… Read more »
New Delhi (CNN)The two women who broke with centuries of conservative taboo Wednesday to enter a temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala are now in hiding, as violent protests left at least one person dead.The pair, aged 42 and 44, became the first women to access the shrine after the country’s Supreme Court overturned a centuries-old ban on women aged… Read more »