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Modi pledges to raise millions out of poverty, turn India into a developed country in 25 years
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, greets after addressing the nation at the 17th-century Mughal-era Red Fort on Independence Day in New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug.15, 2022. The country is marking the 75th anniversary of its independence from British rule. (AP Photo/Pankaj Nangia)
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Droupadi Murmu becomes first tribal woman elected president in India
Workers put up a giant hoarding of Droupadi Murmu for her felicitation, before she was announced as the country's new President, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 21, 2022. Murmu, who hails from a minority ethnic community, was chosen Thursday as India’s new president, a largely ceremonial position. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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Draupadi Murmu likely to become first tribal woman elected president in India
Droupadi Murmu, 64, a female politician who was nominated as presidential candidate by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), attends a meeting ahead of India's presidential elections, in Ahmedabad, India, July 17, 2022. REUTERS/Amit Dave
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Thousands protest ‘bulldozer justice’ against Indian Muslims
A bulldozer is being used to demolish the illegal structures of the residence of Javed Ahmed, a local leader who was allegedly involved in the recent violent protests against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) former spokeswoman Nupur Sharma's incendiary remarks about Prophet Mohammed, in Allahabad on June 12, 2022. (Photo by Sanjay KANOJIA / AFP) (Photo by SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Modi sends fire warning nationwide as Delhi landfill burns
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India’s Narendra Modi touts development projects in visit to Kashmir
A security officer patrols near the site of an attack in Jammu, India, Friday, April. 22, 2022. Six suspected rebels and an Indian paramilitary officer were killed in two separate armed clashes in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said on Friday, two days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the disputed region.(AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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Biden, Modi talk as U.S. works to shore up response to Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden, seated with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin; India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, holds a videoconference with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss Russia's war with Ukraine from the White House in Washington U.S., April 11, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Indian government faces criticism as it introduces bill to raise age of marriage for women from 18 to 21
FILE PHOTO: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi, India, December 6, 2021. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS
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Narendra Modi’s reversal on India’s farm laws reflects a cynical electoral strategy, not newfound empathy
Raji Aujla
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Punjabi-Canadians welcome India’s move to repeal controversial farm laws
A man arranges harvested paddy on a tractor trolley in a field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. In a surprise announcement, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday his government will withdraw the controversial agriculture laws that prompted yearlong protests from tens of thousands of farmers and posed a significant political challenge to his administration. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
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India’s Modi to repeal controversial farm laws that led to protests
File - Members of Communist Party of India shout slogans during a protest against farm laws in Mumbai, India Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, has said his government will withdraw the controversial farm laws that were met with year-long demonstrations from tens of thousands of farmers who said the laws will shatter their livelihoods. The drawn-out demonstrations have posed one of the biggest political challenges to Modi, who swept the polls for the second time in 2019. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
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India’s Modi to unveil $1.35-trillion infrastructure plan to mark independence day
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation during Independence Day celebrations at the historic Red Fort in Delhi, India, August 15, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
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Indian PM Narendra Modi drops 12 senior Cabinet ministers in massive reshuffle
FILE PHOTO: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a gathering before flagging off the "Dandi March", or Salt March, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of India's Independence, in Ahmedabad, India, March 12, 2021. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
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PM Narendra Modi won’t attend G7 summit in Britain in person due to COVID-19 crisis in India
FILE - In this March 7, 2021, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally ahead of West Bengal state elections in Kolkata, India. As coronavirus deaths mount and a vaccine rollout falters badly, the crisis has badly dented Modi’s carefully cultivated image as an able technocrat. (AP Photo/Bikas Das, File)
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India turns to ex-army medics amid COVID-19 surge and continued calls for lockdown
A boy sits at his father's roadside shop during partial lockdown imposed by the state government amidst rising Covid-19 coronavirus cases in Siliguri on May 9, 2021. (Photo by Diptendu DUTTA / AFP) (Photo by DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP via Getty Images)
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India reports record number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths as virus spreads to rural villages
Health workers attend to a COVID-19 patient inside the ICU of the Teerthanker Mahaveer University hospital, in Moradabad, India, on May 5, 2021.
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Hopes rise for India’s opposition after Modi’s ruling party suffers election loss in key battleground state
Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal's chief minister and the leader of Trinamool Congress party, speaks in Jalpaiguri district, India, on April 14, 2021.
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Indian leader’s party takes electoral hit amid COVID-19 surge
Relatives and friends wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) suits hold garlands as they walk towards the funeral pyre of their loved one who died due to the Covid-19 coronavirus, at a cremation ground in New Delhi on May 2, 2021. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP) (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hospital fire kills 18 virus patients as India steps up jabs
Barriers are seen outside a COVID-19 vaccination centre after it was closed for three days due to a shortage of vaccine supplies, in Mumbai, India, on April 30, 2021.
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India orders armed forces to help hospitals overwhelmed by surging COVID-19 cases
A patient wearing an oxygen mask is wheeled inside a COVID-19 hospital for treatment, in Ahmedabad, India, on April 26, 2021.
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COVID-19 ‘swallowing’ people in India; crematoriums overwhelmed
A relative of a person who died of COVID-19 reacts at a crematorium in Jammu, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. India’s crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the populous country with terrifying speed, depleting the supply of life-saving oxygen to critical levels and leaving patients to die while waiting in line to see doctors. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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New Delhi imposes night-time curfew ahead of ‘critical’ four weeks in fight against COVID-19
Pedestrians walks in New Delhi, India, on Jan. 9, 2021.
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Bangladeshi protesters clash with police during strike
Activists of the Hefazat-e Islam, a hard-line islamist group, shout slogans during a demonstration outside the National Mosque in Dhaka on March 27, 2021 a day after deadly clashes with police during a protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit to Bangladesh. (Photo by Munir Uz zaman / AFP) (Photo by MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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At Least 10 Killed in Protests Against Modi’s Visit to Bangladesh
This handout photograph taken on March 27, 2021 and released by the Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB), shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) paying homage at the mausoleum of Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman next to Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (R) and her sister Sheikh Rehana at the Bangabandhu complex in Tungipara. (Photo by - / INDIAN PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB)" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by -/INDIAN PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images)
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Thousands of female farmers hold sit-ins, hunger strike to protest India’s new agricultural laws
Thousand of women gather to join the farmers who are continuing to protest against the central government's recent agricultural reforms, in New Delhi, India, on March 8, 2021.
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Indian farmers planning major road blockade outside New Delhi to mark 100th day of protests
Farmers take part in a demonstration against the government's recent agricultural reforms, in Amritsar, India, on March 5, 2021.
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India imposes new lockdowns as COVID-19 cases rise again in some areas
Passengers line up to get their temperatures checked at a train station in Mumbai, Maharashtra state, India, on Feb. 22, 2021.
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Indian farmers vow to amass more protest supporters outside capital Delhi
Farmers and agricultural workers attend a rally against farm laws, in Barnala, northern state of Punjab, India, February 21, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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India ‘will do its best’ to help Canada get COVID-19 vaccine doses, Modi says
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a gathering in Haldia, India, on Feb. 7, 2021.
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Biden calls India’s Modi, seeks to strengthen regional security through ‘Quad’ grouping
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses a gathering in Haldia, about 120 Km south of Kolkata on February 7, 2021. (Photo by Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP) (Photo by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Indian authorities heavily increase security at three main farmer protest sites
Indian paramilitary force soldiers stand against layers of barricades at the Delhi-Utttar Pradesh border, in New Delhi, on Feb. 2, 2021.
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India’s budget boosts health care spending by 135%, opens up insurance
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, centre, leaves the Finance Ministry to present the annual budget in parliament, in New Delhi, on Feb. 1, 2021.
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There is a fundamental chasm between India’s government and its protesting farmers
Gareth Price
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Canadian Sikhs worry for families in India as farm protests turn violent
Police try to stop local residents as they clash with farmers at the Delhi-Haryana state border, in Singhu, India, on Jan. 29, 2021.