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India and China hail warming ties amid Trump-induced geopolitical shake-up
Countries agree to resume trade links and work to resolving border dispute after visit to Delhi by top diplomat Wang Yi
Helen Davidson in Taipei
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Indian court orders removal of thousands of stray dogs from Delhi region
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Labour peer calls for removal of Clive of India statue from outside Foreign Office
Thangam Debbonaire says Indian visitors to the ministry should not have to walk past ‘historically inaccurate’ bronze
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Modi ready to ‘pay a heavy price’ as India seeks to resist Trump tariffs
Foreign ministry calls 50% levy ‘unjustified and unreasonable’ and accuses US of double standards
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Arundhati Roy works among dozens of books banned in Indian-administered Kashmir
Censorship order accuses books of promoting ‘false narrative and secessionism’ in disputed territory
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World awaits Trump’s next move as Russia ceasefire deadline approaches
US president has been unusually reticent about plans to punish Russia if it does not agree to end Ukraine war
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What is a cloudburst? The rare and intense weather event blamed for deadly India flash flood
Meteorologists say that complex processes combine to create cloudbursts, which can have life-threatening consequences
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About 100 people missing as flash flood tears through town in northern India
Large-scale search and rescue operation under way after at least five people killed in Himalayan region
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Trump’s demand that India stop buying Russian oil puts Modi in tight spot
Prime minister faces a choice between high tariffs or giving up cheap oil, putting New Delhi’s non-alignment policy under severe strain
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India to still buy oil from Russia despite Trump threats, say officials
No pause on Russian imports by Indian oil firms who base decisions on ‘price, grade of crude, logistics and economic factors’
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‘A joyous day’: India celebrates return of ancient gems linked to the Buddha
Culture ministry had threatened legal action over planned auction of Piprahwa precious stones
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Air India under growing pressure as safety record scrutinised after deadly crash
Indian government has called for better oversight on safety at the legacy airline as regulators issue warnings
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Letters: Alex Watson writes that moralising over Putin and Netanyahu is nothing without enforceable law, while Ravishankar Kalyanasundaram says the ‘rules-based international order’ was curated by the west
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Indian film company to rerelease romantic drama with AI ‘happy ending’
Director ‘heartbroken’ after 2013 film about doomed romance between Hindu man and Muslim woman altered without his knowledge
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India wrestles with how census can count tribe that shuns contact with outside world
Experts say it would be hard to assess numbers of Sentinelese without causing them alarm and figures would be inaccurate anyway
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British families ‘sent wrong remains’ after loved ones killed in Air India crash
Victims’ remains misidentified and parts of more than one person ‘commingled’ in single casket, says lawyer
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China starts building world’s biggest hydropower dam
1.2tn yuan project has broken ground in Tibet, premier says, despite fears of downstream nations India and Bangladesh
Helen Davidson in Taipei
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‘We painted, sang songs’: the Russian woman found living in Indian cave with daughters
Nina Kutina told police she moved to forest with girls, aged four and six, to get away from modern urban life
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
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Air India finds ‘no issues’ with fuel switches on other Boeings after crash
US report says investigators looking at actions of plane’s captain before plane crash that killed 260 people
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Indian regulator orders airlines to check Boeing fuel switches after plane crash report
Air India cautions investigation into Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash is in early stages as speculation about cause grows
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