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Japan regrets Sri Lanka’s scrapping of port terminal deal

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

Security officers push back people shouting slogans during a protest held to show support to farmers who have been on a months-long protest, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Nearly 200 supporters of Indian farmers on Wednesday clashed with the police who blocked them from marching to an area for protests close to Parliament in the Indian capital. Waving flags and banners representing their organizations, the protesters demanded the repeal of new agriculture reform laws which the farmers say will favor large corporate farms. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Supporters of protesting Indian farmers scuffle with police

By SHONAL GANGULY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2021 file photo, protesting farmers ride tractors and shout slogans as they march to the capital breaking police barricades during India's Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi, India. Images of thousands of farmers streaming into India's capital to decry potentially devastating changes in agricultural policy can seem a world away, but the protests in New Delhi raise issues that resonate in the United States and have led to dramatic change in rural America. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

India farming protests resonate with US agriculture

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE - Associated Press

A man rides past buildings under construction in Mumbai, India, Monday, Feb 1, 2021. India’s government on Monday announced it will boost healthcare spend amid the coronavirus pandemic and said it was committed to the development of the financial institutions and shoring up of infrastructure to get the pandemic-ravaged nation back as the world's fastest-growing major economy.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

India pandemic-fighting budget to boost health care spending

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

A Tangkhul Naga woman holds the hand of a child and walks past boys engaged in a friendly soccer match, with Nungshang village seen on the mountaintop, in Shangshak village, in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, Saturday, Jan. 30 2021. Most Naga villages are perched on mountaintops, originally built long ago to spot approaching enemies when the region was little more than a forest. But on nearly every mountaintop, there will be a flat rectangle to serve as a soccer field. (AP Photo/Yirmiyan Arthur)

AP PHOTOS: In India’s northeast, Nagas take pride in soccer

By YIRMIYAN ARTHUR - Associated Press

Indian economy shrinks 7.7% in fiscal 2020-21 amid pandemic

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Sri Lankan health officials attend a mock COVID-19 vaccination drive in Piliyandala, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Sri Lanka has begun rehearsals to administer COVID-19 vaccines to its health workers a day after the government approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines for emergency use in the country. The island nation has seen a spike in infections and deaths in recent months with more than 52,000 positive cases and 265 deaths reported from October. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

India donates first 500,000 doses of vaccine to Sri Lanka

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

Chinese app TikTok cuts jobs in India following ban

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India invites investors to help develop manufacturing hub

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE- In this Sept. 14, 2017, file photo, Indian army trucks drive near Pangong Tso lake near the India China border in India's Ladakh area. The Indian army said Saturday, Jan. 9, 2020, that it has apprehended a Chinese soldier in the remote Ladakh region, where the two countries are locked in a monthslong military standoff along their disputed mountain border. An army statement said the Chinese soldier was taken into custody on Friday for transgressing into the Indian side in area South of Pangong Tso lake. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India says China ties at crossroads amid border standoff

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, file photo, farmers participate in a tractor protest rally towards the capital during India's Republic Day in New Delhi, India. A sea of tens of thousands of farmers riding tractors and horses stormed India’s historic Red Fort on Jan. 26, a dramatic escalation of their protests, which are posing a major challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. They are demanding the repeal of laws passed by Parliament in September that they say will favor large corporate farms, devastate the earnings of many farmers and leave those who hold small plots behind as big corporations win out. (AP Photo/Dinesh Joshi, File)

EXPLAINER: Why India’s farmers are revolting against PM Modi

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Commuters wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus ride on a subway train near an advertisement carrying the words &quot;Come on 2021, It will work&quot; in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. Countries must cooperate more closely in fighting the challenges of the pandemic and climate change and in supporting a sustainable global economic recovery, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday in an address to the World Economic Forum. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

The Latest: India vaccinates 2 million health workers

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Protesters lead a chant on Fifth Avenue outside the Consulate General of India, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, in the Manhattan borough of New York. Tens of thousands of protesting farmers have marched, rode horses and drove long lines of tractors into India's capital, breaking through police barricades to storm the historic Red Fort. The farmers have been demanding the withdrawal of new laws that they say will favor large corporate farms and devastate the earnings of smaller scale farmers. Republic Day marks the anniversary of the adoption of India’s constitution on Jan. 26, 1950. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Protesters supporting Indian farmers demonstrate in NYC

By DAVID R. MARTIN and DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press

A Sikh man hangs on to a pole holding a Sikh religious flag along with a farm union flag at the historic Red Fort monument in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. Tens of thousands of protesting farmers drove long lines of tractors into India's capital on Tuesday, breaking through police barricades, defying tear gas and storming the historic Red Fort as the nation celebrated Republic Day. (AP Photo/Supreet Sapkal)

Protesting farmers return to camp after storming Indian fort

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Indian farmers sit on their tractor after arriving at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border for Tuesday's tractor rally in New Delhi, India, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Angry farmers storm India’s Red Fort in huge tractor rally

By Sheikh Saaliq - Associated Press

Indian farmers sit on their tractors after arriving at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border for Tuesday's tractor rally in New Delhi, India, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Thousands of farmers gathered on the borders of Delhi for a massive tractor rally on Tuesday against the three contentious farm laws when India will celebrate its Republic day with a military and cultural parade. The two-month-old old blockade of highways connecting the capital with the country's north continues as the talks have remained deadlocked with the government refusing to scrap the new agricultural reform laws which the farmers say will benefit large corporations. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Angry Indian farmers prepare for massive Republic Day rally

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Funeral home workers carry the coffin of Pedro Miguel Infante Vilchez, 80, who died from COVID-19, to the &quot;Martires 19 de Julio&quot; cemetery in Comas, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The Latest: Arizona COVID-19 cases down despite high rate

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A van stands parked waiting to transport AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccines, manufactured under license by Serum Institute of India, at Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. India sent 1 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine to Nepal on Thursday, a gift that is likely to help repair strained ties between the two neighbors. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

India gives 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Nepal

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

This image released by Netflix shows Rajkummar Rao, from left, Priyanka Chopra and Adarsh Gourav in a scene from &quot;The White Tiger.&quot; (Tejinder Singh Khamkha/Netflix via AP)

Review: In ‘The White Tiger,’ an epic for modern-day India

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press

This image released by Netflix shows Adarsh Gourav as Balram in a scene from &quot;The White Tiger.&quot; (Tejinder Singh Khamkha/Netflix via AP)

How Netflix helped ‘The White Tiger’ movie become a reality

By LINDSEY BAHR - Associated Press