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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, left, shakes hand with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with Indian President Ram Nath Kovind standing beside them during his ceremonial welcome at the presidential palace in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020. Bolsonaro is this year's chief guest for India's Republic day parade. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India, Brazil agree to boost ties in IT, biofuel and mining

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Indian Union Muslim League leader P.K.Kunhalikutty, center, one of the petitioners, speaks to media on the lawns of India's Supreme Court after the top court started hearing dozens of petitions that seek revocation of a new citizenship law amendment in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. The new law had led to nationwide demonstrations and a violent security backlash resulting in the death of more than 20 people. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Battle for India’s new citizenship law moves to top court

By RISHABH R. JAIN - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018, file photo, activists shout slogans during a protest in front of Assam House against the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the northeastern state of Assam, in New Delhi, India. India has been embroiled in protests since December, when Parliament passed a bill amending the country's citizenship law. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

AP EXPLAINS: How India ended up in turmoil over citizenship

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Indian workers repair an advertising hoarding in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. The IMF on Monday lowered India’s economic growth estimate for the current fiscal to 4.8% and listed the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers as the single biggest drag on its global growth forecast for two years. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

IMF downgrade of growth outlook ups pressure on India’s Modi

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

India asks China to avoid raising Kashmir dispute at U.N.

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

China hopes UN meeting spurs India-Pakistan talks on Kashmir

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Amazon to invest $1 billion in India

Associated Press

Officials: Series of avalanches kill 12 in Himalayan Kashmir

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Indian state challenges new citizenship law in Supreme Court

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

People look at what remains of a bus that caught fire after ramming into a truck in Kannauj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. At least 20 people died when in the accident, police said. Another 21 people were taken to a hospital, some of them in critical condition, following the crash late Friday, said senior police officer Mohit Aggarwal. (AP Photo)

Bus catches fire in road accident in India; at least 20 dead

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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama meets with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. On Friday, Jan. 20, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a manipulated version of a photo similar to this circulating online incorrectly depicting Obama with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The manipulated image has circulated on social media and blogs since at least 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

By ARIJETA LAJKA and BEATRICE DUPUY and AMANDA SEITZ - Associated Press

An Indian student sits bleeding inside a bus after he was detained by police during a protest march towards the presidential palace against a recent attack on students by masked men inside Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. The protest march Thursday of students and faculty of the esteemed university in New Delhi that was the site of a mob attack earlier this week was violently broken up by police, with police wielding batons to force demonstrators onto buses. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Police violently end student protest in central New Delhi

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Man charged with hate crimes in beating of 70-year-old woman

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

India sets 2012 gang rape convicts’ executions for Jan. 22

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019, photo, sister of Mohsin Ahmad, a laborer who was shot and killed allegedly in police firing during protests against Citizenship Amendment Act, cries outside her residence in Meerut, India. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to oppose a new law that grants a path to citizenship for immigrants of every religion except Islam. Many say the law, passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist government, discriminates against Muslims and undermines the country's secular foundations. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Muslims in fear as police crack down in India’s heartland

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Doctors rush to Indian town where children have been dying

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Passengers wait for trains in the morning fog in New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. The Indian capital which is witnessing the longest spell of cold weather in the last 22 years, woke up to a blanket of dense fog disrupting rail, road and air traffic adversely. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

North India prepares for New Year’s enveloped in cold smog

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Kashmir border shootings kill 2 Pakistani, 2 Indians

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

An Indian artist paints on a canvas at an event organized by a students organization to protest against a new citizenship law that opponents say threatens India's secular identity in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019. Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to India's streets to call for the revocation of the law, which critics say is the latest effort by Narendra Modi's government to marginalize the country's 200 million Muslims. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Protests continue in India against new citizenship law

By WASBIR HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Students shout slogans against government during a protest against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Hundreds of students marched Tuesday through the streets of New Delhi to Jantar Mantar, an area designated for protests near Parliament, against the new citizenship law, that allows Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities who are in India illegally to become citizens if they can show they were persecuted because of their religion in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It does not apply to Muslims. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Narendra Modi India citizenship law sparks protests

By Siddhant Mohan - Special to The Washington Times