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Fireworks factory blaze kills 7 in southern India

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An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. India said Monday its soldiers thwarted “provocative” movements by China’s military near a disputed border in the Ladakh region months into the rival nations’ deadliest standoff in decades. China's military said it was taking “necessary actions in response,&quot; without giving details. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Indian, Chinese defense ministers meet amid border tensions

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - Chaitanya Tamhane poses during a photo call for &quot;Court&quot; at the 71th edition of the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 6, 2014, in Venice, Italy. Writer-director Tamhane's &quot;The Disciple,&quot; a film about a classical musician's struggle to balance his career dreams and life in contemporary Mumbai, will return India to the main competition at the upcoming Venice Film Festival for the first time in nearly two decades. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

‘The Disciple’ returns India to Venice film fest competition

By JUWON PARK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2015, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, hugs Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi at Facebook in Menlo Park, Calif. Members of India's governing party on Monday rejected allegations that Facebook had chosen to turn a blind eye to partisan hate speech on its platform to protect its growing business interests in India. As usage has spread across India, Facebook and its subsidiary WhatsApp have become fierce battlegrounds for India’s political parties, but spokesmen for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party denied a newspaper report that asserted Facebook officials chose not to take action against party members whose posts violated rules against hate speech. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Facebook India grilled over hate speech, allegations of bias

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE- In this April 5, 2019 file photo, Indian children play online game PUBG on their mobile phones sitting on stairs outside their house in Hyderabad, India. India on Wednesday banned the widely popular Chinese mobile game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, known by the acronym PUBG, along with other 117 mobile applications in yet another move targeting China in the online space.(AP Photo/ Mahesh Kumar A, File)

India bans PUBG, 117 other Chinese apps amid border standoff

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An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. India said Monday its soldiers thwarted “provocative” movements by China’s military near a disputed border in the Ladakh region months into the rival nations’ deadliest standoff in decades. China's military said it was taking “necessary actions in response,&quot; without giving details. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Indian, Chinese commanders hold talks over mounting tensions

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

An Indian child wearing a mask as a precaution against the coronavirus carries an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha to immerse in Saroornagar Lake on the final day of Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. The festival is a celebration of the birth of Ganesha, the Hindu god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

India eases virus restrictions even as cases soar

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

In this Sept. 14, 2017, file photo, Pangong Tso lake is seen near the India China border in India's Ladakh area. India said Monday its soldiers thwarted China's &quot;provocative&quot; military movements near a disputed border in Ladakh region amid a monthslong standoff. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India says China’s military made moves near disputed border

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

India’s economy contracts by 24%, worst in at least 24 years

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE-In this Monday, Sept. 4, 2017, file photo, Indian lawyer and social activist Prashant Bhushan speaks to the journalists outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi, India. A prominent Indian lawyer has been let off by the country’s supreme court for criminal contempt over his criticism of the Indian judiciary which sparked a debate on freedom of speech in the world’s largest democracy and the independence of its judicial system. The court on Monday told Bhushan the lawyer to pay 1 rupee (US $ O.014) as a penalty. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal, file)

India’s top court lets off lawyer who criticized judiciary

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

$FILE- In this Oct. 10, 2008 file photo, India's then Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, listens as to a speaker during the signing ceremony for the U.S.-India Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, at the State Department, in Washington. Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who was a key troubleshooter in managing fractious coalitions as a member of India's long-governing Congress party died Monday evening. He was 84. Mukherjee had emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain on August 10 at New Delhi's Army Hospital Research and Referral. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)$

Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee dies at age 84

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An Indian health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 during a door to door test drive in Gauhati, India, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. India has the third-highest coronavirus caseload after the United States and Brazil, and the fourth-highest death toll in the world. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

India records world’s biggest single-day jump in virus cases

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE- In this June 4, 2011 file photo, Indian laborers carry firewood, as smoke rises from a bricks factory on the outskirts of Jammu, India. India should commit to carbon neutrality by ending fossil fuel subsidies and investing in clean solar power as it mobilizes trillion of dollars to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

UN chief urges India to quickly move to clean solar power

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE- In this Feb 4, 2000 file photo, Pakistan-based militant leader Masood Azhar, speaks at the Karachi press club, in Pakistan. India's anti-terrorism agency named the Pakistan-based militant leader as the prime mastermind in a 2019 car bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 40 Indian soldiers and brought two nuclear-armed rival nations to the brink of war, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Zia Mazhar, File)

India indicts Pakistani militant in 2019 Kashmir bombing

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FILE- In this Nov. 12, 2019 file photo, a Kashmiri journalist hold up a laptop during a protest against 100 days of internet blockade in the region in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. A rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir says India’s communications blackout following the scrapping of the disputed region’s semiautonomy last year is a collective punishment and digital apartheid. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan, File)

Kashmir group calls India’s internet ban ‘digital apartheid’

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Rescue workers look for survivors after a residential building collapsed in Mahad, about 170 kilometers (105 miles) from India's financial capital of Mumbai, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. Many people feared injured and more than 65 were trapped inside after a residential building caved in on Monday evening in the central Indian state of Maharashtra. (AP Photo)

Rescuers find 60 survivors after building collapse in India

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A man wearing a face masks walks past an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha during reimposed weekend lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Jammu, India Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. India has the third-highest caseload after the United States and Brazil, and the fourth-highest death toll in the world. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

AP Explains: How India’s fast-growing cases topped 3 million

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Health workers conduct COVID-19 antigen tests for migrant workers in New Delhi, India, Aug. 18, 2020. In June, India began using the cheaper, faster but less accurate tests to scale up testing for the coronavirus — a strategy that the U.S. is now considering. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Experts flag risks in India’s use of rapid tests for virus

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and MATTHEW PERRONE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, file photo, National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah, center, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti, second right, and other leaders sit during an all parties meeting in Srinagar, India. Half a dozen political parties, including NC and PDP, vowed Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020, to fight for restoration of the special status that was stripped last year from Indian-administered Kashmir, setting off widespread anger and economic ruin amid a harsh security clampdown. Four pro-India Kashmiri political parties and two Indian political parties, including the main opposition Congress Party, said in a joint statement that India’s move “unrecognizably changed the relationship” between the region and New Delhi. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Political parties vow to fight removal of Kashmir’s autonomy

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2019, file photo, Kashmiri men shout freedom slogans during a protest against New Delhi's tightened grip on the disputed region, after Friday prayers on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. In August 2019, New Delhi stripped India-administered Kashmir of its statehood, demoting it to a federal territory, and clamped down on dissent. The region’s decades-old semi-autonomy, which protected jobs and land from outsiders, was also scrapped. India’s actions in Kashmir a year ago exacerbated existing tensions with China, culminating in the deadliest clash between the Asian giants in 45 years. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin, File)

AP Explains: India’s Kashmir move foretold China standoff

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press