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FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, file photo, Indian paramilitary soldiers drag barbwire as they prepare to impose curfew in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. Envoys from more than 20 countries arrived in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, the second visit by a delegation of New Delhi-based foreign diplomats since the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist-led government stripped the region of its semi-autonomous status in August last year. The move was accompanied by a harsh crackdown, with New Delhi sending tens of thousands of additional troops to the already heavily militarized region, imposing a sweeping curfew, arresting thousands and cutting virtually all communications. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

India takes foreign envoys to disputed Kashmir

By SHAH ABBAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2018 file photo, Hafiz Saeed, founder of Pakistani religious group Jamaat-ud-Dawa addresses an anti-Indian rally in Lahore, Pakistan. On Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, a Pakistani court sentenced Saeed, a radical cleric wanted by Washington and New Delhi for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and four of his associates to five and half years each in jail on terror financing. According to a government and defense lawyer, Wednesday's verdict was announced in the presence of Hafiz Saeed and the four other suspects. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Pakistan jails cleric wanted by US, India for Mumbai attacks

By ZAHEER BABAR - Associated Press

First lady Melania Trump smiles next to President Donald Trump as he arrives to speak at the Governors' Ball, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Donald and Melania Trump to visit India on Feb. 24-25

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Pakistan says India firing kills civilian in Kashmir

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Protesters burn an effigy of Indian prime minister during a rally to express solidarity with Indian Kashmiris struggling for their independence, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Pakistan's prime minister urged the international community to live up to its obligation and ensure the freedom of the Kashmiri people. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Strike shuts Kashmir to remember man executed by India

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Indian Prime Minister Narender Modi, right, shakes hand with his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa, during a ceremonial reception for Rajapaksa at the Indian presidential palace, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. Rajapaksa is on a four day state visit to India. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India asks Sri Lanka to resume Tamil reconciliation process

By KRISHAN FRANCIS and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, photo, a supporter of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) holds a mace, used as a weapon by Hindu god Hanuman, as he shouts slogans during an election campaign rally for the upcoming Delhi elections in New Delhi, India. Campaigning for a crucial state election in India's capital has reached a fever pitch as members of the Hindu nationalist-led government call for violence against minority Muslims and invoke the specter of arch-nemesis Pakistan to reverse course after a pair of losses in recent state polls. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Poll pitch for India’s capital plays up growing divisions

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi addresses the gathering during an event to celebrate signing of a peace accord with the Bodo rebel group, National Democratic Front of Bodoland, in Kokrajhar, a town 250 kilometers (150 miles) west of Gauhati, India, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. Modi said on Friday that his government will continue its peace push in insurgency-wracked northeast bordering China and Myanmar where signing of accords with key rebel groups led to surrender by thousands of fighters. The prime minister said decades of violent insurrection ended in the Bodo tribal heartland in Assam state following the signing of the Jan. 27 agreement by the government with the rebel group. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

India to continue rebel peace accord push in troubled areas

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Gas leak kills 7 at India carpet factory, including children

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Supporters of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star attend a protest against a new citizenship law that opponents say threatens India's secular identity, in Kolkata, India, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Demonstrators across the country have been demanding the revocation of the citizenship law. The law provides a fast-track to naturalization for persecuted religious minorities from some neighboring Islamic countries, but excludes Muslims. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Modi says Indian Muslims had nothing to fear in new law

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

A model unveils Mercedes Benz GLA at the Auto Expo in Greater Noida, near New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

China gives top Indian auto show a miss over new virus fears

By RISHABH R. JAIN - Associated Press

India says no plans yet to prepare a citizenship registry

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Rao brings volunteer experience from India to MSU

By TESS VRBIN and The Dispatch - Associated Press

Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in yellow sari, and junior Finance Minister Anurag Thakur, center left, arrive at the parliament house before presenting the federal budget in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. India’s Hindu nationalist-led government on Saturday offered relief to taxpayers and vowed to spend billions to double farmers’ incomes, upgrade infrastructure, health care and industry to boost the lowest economic growth in a decade. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s budget offers tax relief amid slow economic growth

By ASHOK SHARMA and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Indian forces kill 3 insurgents in Kashmir

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In this Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, photo, people line up outside a fever clinic at Wuhan Union Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. The United States on Friday declared a public health emergency and took drastic steps to significantly restrict entry into the country because of a new virus that hit China and has spread to other nations. (Chinatopix via AP)

China death toll reaches 259; WHO warns countries to prepare

By Joe McDonald and Sam McNeil - Associated Press

Indian Muslim women observe two minutes of silence to mark the death anniversary of India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi during a protest against a new citizenship law that opponents say threatens India's secular identity, in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. The new citizenship law and a proposed National Register of Citizens have brought thousands of protesters out in the streets in many cities and towns since Parliament approved the measure on Dec. 11. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Indian police detain man for firing during student protest

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A man walks past the wrangled remains of a bus after an accident in Nashik, India, Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2020. More than 25 people were killed when the speeding passenger bus collided with an auto-rickshaw late Tuesday in western Maharashtra state, police said. The collision happened on Malegaon-Deola road in Nashik district and caused the vehicles to fall into a roadside well, said senior police officer Vasudev Desale. (National Disaster Response Force via AP)

Bus, auto-rickshaw collision in west India kills at least 27

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FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2020, file photo, a protester holds an umbrella as police fire tear gas during a demonstration in Hong Kong. The human rights group Amnesty International says in annual report released Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020 that while authoritarian controls are increasingly undermining freedoms in Asia, the will to resist such repression is also growing. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Amnesty Int’l: Asia seeing growing repression, resistance

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 16, 2015 file photo, an Air India aircraft prepares to land at the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi, India. India said Monday it plans to sell its entire stake in the national carrier Air India to shore up falling revenues and privatize the airline, after an initial attempt last year failed to attract a single bidder. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

India plans sale of debt-laden national carrier Air India

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press