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Indian farmer Ram Singh Patel drinks morning tea before leaving his village house to work in the field in Fatehpur district, 180 kilometers (112 miles) south of Lucknow, India, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. Patel's day starts at 6 in the morning, when he walks into his farmland tucked next to a railway line. For hours he toils on the farm, where he grows chili peppers, onions, garlic, tomatoes and papayas. Sometimes his wife, two sons and two daughters join him to lend a helping hand or have lunch with him. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

AP PHOTOS: India’s fabled farmers fear what new law may reap

By RAJESH KUMAR SINGH - Associated Press

Activists of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference listen to their party president Farooq Abdullah during a meeting a day after the District Development Council elections results in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. An alliance of political parties opposed to New Delhi’s policies in Kashmir has won a majority of seats in local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region’s semiautonomous status and took direct control last year. The alliance, which is pro-India but favors self-governance for Kashmir, won 112 out of a total of 280 seats in District Development Council elections. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

Kashmir parties opposed to Modi win seats in local polls

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Pakistan warns India against ‘false flag’ attacks in Kashmir

By BY MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

An exile Tibetan Buddhist monk wearing a mask as precaution against the coronavirus rotates a prayer wheel in Dharmsala, India, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

India’s virus cases cross 10 million as new infections dip

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Pakistan warns India planning ‘surgical strike’ against it

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Family members of Rahul Solanki, who was killed during clashes between mobs of Hindus and Muslims protesting a contentious new citizenship law, cry outside a mortuary in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. The law fast-tracks naturalization for foreign-born religious minorities of all major faiths in South Asia except Islam. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A pandemic atlas: India struggles to save lives, economy

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 29, 2011 file photo, passenger jets from Air India, India's national carrier, stand at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, India. India’s government says it has received “multiple expressions of interest” in buying its 100% stake in the debt-laden national carrier Air India to shore up falling government revenues after an initial attempt in 2018 failed to attract any bidders. The deadline for submission of formal bids was Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, and the government is expected to announce the qualified bidders on Jan. 5. It did not reveal the identity of the bidders or the number of bids received. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)

India receives bids to buy state-owned Air India airline

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British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, left and Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar arrive to make joint press statements after their meeting in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec.15, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

UK foreign secretary holds talks with Indian counterpart

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Gmail, YouTube down briefly as Google suffers brief outage

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India arrests senior TV executive over alleged ratings fraud

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Marie poses for a portrait in Komao village outskirts of Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. The 16-year-old didn’t want to get married, but when her now-husband proposed, she and her family were struggling with the economic situation. For that reason she decided to get married. “Now we are together, so if he asks me to get pregnant, I will accept that”, she says. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Many African, Asian families marry off daughters amid virus

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 11, 2013, file photo, a bonded child laborer rests on a school desk in a safe house after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save Childhood Movement, at a garments factory in New Delhi, India. With classrooms shuttered and parents losing their jobs, many children are working in farms, illegal factories, brick kilns and roadside stalls, reversing decades of progress to stop child labor. In rural India, a nationwide lockdown imposed in March, 2020, pushed millions of people into poverty, encouraging trafficking of children from villages into cities for cheap labor. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)

Pandemic threatens India’s children with child labor rising

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE and SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2020 file photo, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi briefs to media during a press conference, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Qureshi on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 demanded the United Nations and the European Union investigate a recent report that exposed a 15-year disinformation campaign to serve India's interests and discredit Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

Pakistan asks UN to probe fake pro-India NGOs, media

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2020, file photo, people queue to get tested for COVID-19 as a thick quilt of smog lingers over New Delhi, India. India is grappling with two public health emergencies: critically polluted air and the pandemic. Nowhere is this dual threat more pronounced than in the Indian capital New Delhi, where the spike in winter pollution levels has coincided with a surge of COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India’s pandemic recovery plan could cost air quality goals

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

India says it may approve vaccine in weeks, outlines plan

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Indian movie superstar Rajinikanth to launch political party

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Indian farmers protesting new agriculture laws hold a meeting at the Delhi-Haryana state border, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to placate thousands of farmers protesting new agriculture laws Monday and said they were being misled by opposition parties and that his government would resolve all their concerns. (AP Photo/Rishi Lekhi)

India’s govt. invites protesting farmers to talks Tuesday

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Kashmiris stand in a queue to cast their votes during the first phase of District Development Councils election on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020. Thousands of people in Indian-controlled Kashmir voted Saturday amid tight security and freezing cold temperatures in the first phase of local elections, the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region's semiautonomous status. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Kashmir people vote in local polls amid cold and security

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

India’s economy contracts by 7.5%, enters its 1st recession

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Fire in Indian hospital kills 5 coronavirus patients

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