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2 University of Texas students from India drown in Oklahoma

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India oil and gas plant fire kills 3 firefighters, 1 worker

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This July 22, 2019, photo released by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) shows its Geosynchronous Satellite launch Vehicle (GSLV) MkIII carrying Chandrayaan-2 lift off from Satish Dhawan Space center in Sriharikota, India. India successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon on Monday, a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem. (Indian Space Research Organization via AP)

India attempting to become fourth country to land on the moon

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

Lego aims to expand sales in China, India

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FILE- In this Aug. 20, 2019 file photo, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman Kailasavadivoo Sivan displays a model of Chandrayaan 2 orbiter and rover during a press conference at their headquarters in Bangalore, India. The landing module of India’s unmanned moon mission separated from the orbiter on Monday ahead of its planned touchdown on the moon’s south polar region this weekend, the space agency said. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

Indian landing module ready for touchdown on moon surface

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In this Aug. 31, 2019 photo, a man checks names in the final list of National Register of Citizens on his mobile phone as a woman stands waiting to check her name in Buraburi village, Morigaon district, Assam, India. About 1.9 million people were left out of the National Register of Citizens _ a mammoth exercise to weed out illegal mainly Bangladeshi immigrants from Assam’s more than 32 million people. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

India’s contentious citizen register attacked from all sides

By WASBIR HUSSAIN - Associated Press

A family checks their documents outside a National Register of Citizens (NRC) center on the eve of the release of the final NRC draft in Gauhati, India, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019. India on Saturday plans to publish a controversial citizenship list that advocates say will help rectify decades of unchecked illegal immigration into the northeastern state of Assam from Bangladesh. Critics fear it will leave off millions of people, rendering them stateless. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Citizenship list in Indian state leaves out almost 2 million

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

An Indian paramilitary soldier asks a Kashmiri motorcyclist couple to leave from a temporary check point during restrictions in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Aug 30, 2019. India on Thursday said it has information that Pakistan is trying to infiltrate terrorists into the country to carry out attacks amid rising tensions over New Delhi's decision to abrogate the autonomy of Indian-administered Kashmir. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Prime minister says Pakistan will respond if India attacks

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

In this Aug. 28, 2019, photo, Halimun Nessa, 32, stands with her children and displays a photograph of her husband Rahim Ali, who committed suicide the day before his children were to appear in front of a National Register of Citizens tribunal, in Barpeta, in India's northeastern state of Assam. Nessa said that her husband was worried their children would be excluded from a government citizenship list. India on Saturday, Aug. 31 plans to publish a controversial citizenship list that advocates say will help rectify decades of unchecked illegal immigration into the northeastern state of Assam from Bangladesh. Critics of the government's plan to publish a National Register of Citizens, fear it will leave off millions of people, rendering them stateless. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Citizenship list in Indian state sparks fears for millions

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

In this Aug. 27, 2019, photo, retired Indian Army officer Mohammad Sanaullah, 53, who was declared an illegal immigrant and detained, shows a photograph of his army unit at his residence in Gauhati, India. Critics of the government's plan to publish a National Register of Citizens, or NRC, fear it will leave off millions of people, rendering them stateless. The Hindu nationalist-led government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which fully backs the citizenship project in Assam, vows to roll out a similar plan nationwide. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Key events leading up to India’s citizenship registry

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Pakistani police officers try to stop protesters from reaching the Line of Control between Pakistan and Indian Kashmir, at the border town of Chakoti, in Pakistani Kashmir, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan since they won independence from British colonialists in 1947. They have fought two wars over its control. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)

Villagers tired of living dangerously along Kashmir frontier

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Apple welcomes India’s easing of foreign investment rules

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Pakistani protesters rally against India to express solidarity with Indian Kashmiris, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan plans to address the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 27 to highlight what he calls &quot;Indian atrocities&quot; in its portion of Kashmir. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

India accuses Pakistan of trying to infiltrate terrorists

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FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, file photo, a Kashmiri family waits for a lift to take their sick child to hospital as Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard near a checkpoint during lockdown in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. India's top court takes up a legal challenge to the government's decision to scrap the special status of the Indian-controlled Kashmir and says five judges will start a regular hearing in October. The Supreme Court gave no immediate ruling after a preliminary hearing on the petitions on Wednesday, Aug. 28. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

India’s top court to examine change in Kashmir’s status

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Pakistani Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan lamented during a wide-ranging interview that millions of people inside Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir have been on lockdown without access to medicine or electricity.

Asad Majeed Khan calls on U.S. to pressure India on Kashmir curfew

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

India liberalizes foreign direct investment to boost economy

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

An elderly Kashmiri man selling sandals walks through a closed market in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. India's government, led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, imposed a security lockdown and communications blackout in Muslim-majority Kashmir to avoid a violent reaction to the Aug. 5 decision to downgrade the region's autonomy. The restrictions have been eased slowly, with some businesses reopening, some landline phone service restored and some grade schools holding classes again, though student and teacher attendance has been sparse. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

India plans massive hiring drive for govt workers in Kashmir

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Pakistani students rally to express solidarity with Indian Kashmiris, in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Students denounced India's downgrading of the special status of the portion of the disputed region it controls. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)

Students rally in Pakistan-held Kashmir against India

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In this Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019 photo, a Kashmiri policeman guards outside a closed shop in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir. Thirty Kashmiri police officers who spoke on the condition of anonymity fearing retribution from their superiors told The Associated Press that they have been sidelined and in some cases disarmed by New Delhi-based authorities since the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi downgraded Jammu and Kashmir from a state into two federally administered territories, tightening its grip on the restive region. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Indian order leaves Kashmir police dispirited, even disarmed

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

In this photograph made available by the state-run WAM news agency, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, receives a medal during his induction to the Order of Zayed from Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, right, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019. Modi is on a trip to both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, reinforcing ties between India and the Gulf Arab nations as he pursues stripping statehood from the disputed Muslim-majority region of Kashmir. (Hamad al-Kaabi - Ministry of Presidential Affairs/WAM via AP)

India’s Modi awarded UAE medal amid Kashmir crackdown

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press