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In this Oct. 16, 2016, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS summit in Goa, India. India and China have agreed to pull back their troops from a face-off in the high Himalayas where China, India and Bhutan meet, signaling a thaw in the monthslong standoff, India's government said Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India-China rivalry looms over Bhutan election

By Siddhant Mohan and Jabeen Bhatti - Special to The Washington Times

Protestors who are opposed to allowing women of menstruating age from entering the Sabarimala temple chant devotional hymns as they gather at Nilackal, a base camp on way to the mountain shrine in Kerala, India, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. The historic mountain shrine, one of the largest Hindu pilgrimage centers in the world is set to open its doors to females of menstruating age following a ruling by the country's top court. Police arrested some protesters when they tried to block the path of some females. (AP Photo)

Protesters stop females ages 10 to 50 from entering temple

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2014 file photo, controversial religious leader Sant Rampal stands by the door of a police van as he is brought to a court, surrounded by police personnel in Chandigarh, India. A court in northern India on Tuesday, oct. 16, 2018, has sentenced the Hindu guru and 14 followers to life imprisonment in the deaths of four women and a child at his sprawling ashram. Rampal was arrested in 2014 following a days-long standoff between law enforcers and his supporters in which six people died and hundreds were injured. (AP Photo/Kapil Sethi, File)

Indian court gives life sentence to guru, 14 followers

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A Kashmiri woman carries a child and walks towards a hospital, outside a poling station during the fourth phase of local elections in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. India says the polls are a vital grass roots exercise to boost development and address civic issues. Political separatist leaders and armed rebel groups who challenge India's sovereignty over Kashmir have called for a boycott, saying the polls are an illegitimate exercise under military occupation. Authorities have deployed more than 40,000 additional soldiers in what is already one of world's most heavily militarised regions to guard the voting for urban and village councils. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Urban council polls end in Kashmir amid boycott

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Kashmiri Muslim protesters clash with Indian government forces during the fourth phase of local elections in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. India says the polls are a vital grass roots exercise to boost development and address civic issues. Political separatist leaders and armed rebel groups who challenge India's sovereignty over Kashmir have called for a boycott, saying the polls are an illegitimate exercise under military occupation. Authorities have deployed more than 40,000 additional soldiers in what is already one of world's most heavily militarised regions to guard the voting for urban and village councils. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Fighting in Kashmir city leaves 3 combatants, civilian dead

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

An Indian women purchases fabric inside a shop in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Global credit card and payments companies like American Express, Visa and MasterCard are facing a challenge in meeting a requirement to store transaction data for all Indian customers within the country. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Payments companies hit deadline for keeping data in India

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

India minister denies misconduct after #MeToo accusations

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Minor blast injures at least 4 people in India’s northeast

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Child hunger ‘serious’ in India while its economy grows fast

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Joel Embiod of the Philadelphia 76ers, third left, controls the ball away from Salah Mejri of Dallas Mavericks, third right, during the Shenzhen basketball match between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Dallas Maverick, part of the NBA China Games, in Shenzhen city, south China's Guangdong province, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

‘Our fans are everywhere’: NBA still growing internationally

By TIM REYNOLDS - Associated Press

CORRECTS IDENTITY OF DENNIS BOYLE, LEFT, AND BLERINA JASARI, TO U.S. ATTORNEY GREGORY BERNSTEIN, LEFT, AND FBI SPECIAL AGENT KEITH CUSTER - U.S. Attorney Gregory Bernstein, left, and FBI Special Agent Keith Custer walk outside the federal courthouse, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Greenbelt, Md. Authorities and a government witness say that investment adviser Dawn Bennett, cast paranormal spells and spent nearly three-quarters of a million dollars on prayers in a desperate attempt to avoid charges that she orchestrated a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Bernstein is one of the prosecutors in the case against Bennett and Custer was one of the agents who investigated the case. (AP Photo/Michael Kunzelman)

Ponzi scheme suspect paid $720K for prayers amid SEC probe

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘We That Are Young’ by Preti Taneja

By Claire Hopley

FILE - This June 15, 2008 file photo shows retired Bollywood actor Tanushree Dutta in Ahmadabad, India. A complaint by Dutta, who now lives in the United States, alleging sexual harassment on a 2008 movie set has galvanized women in India, but for the country’s burgeoning #MeToo movement to reach broader swaths of society, a little-known labor law must be more aggressively implemented, lawyers and activists said Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

India’s #MeToo comes amid calls for 2013 law’s enforcement

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Indian troops kill 2 rebels in Kashmir fighting

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FILE - In this May 31, 2018, file photo, India's soccer coach Stephen Constantine speaks with captain Sunil Chhetri by his side during a pre-tournament press conference for the Hero Intercontinental Cup in Mumbai, India. Soccer’s two biggest sleeping giants India and China meet in Suzhou, China on Saturday, Oct. 13, for the first time since 1997. Representing around one-third of the world’s population, India and China both show signs of growing strength in their domestic leagues, despite limited international success. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)

A friendly for China and India has billions interested

By JOHN DUERDEN - Associated Press

This Sept. 4, 2018, file photo, released by an official website of the Office of the Iranian Presidency, shows a part of the Pardis petrochemical complex facilities in Assalouyeh on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, Iran. Bijan Zanganeh, Iran's oil minister, said the United States will not succeed in its plans to halt Iranian crude exports even as he acknowledged that South Korea has stopped buying oil from Tehran, Iranian media reported on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP, File)

India to buy Iran oil, defy U.S. sanctions

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Court frees arrested senior magazine editor in south India

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

A Kashmiri poling officer inside a poling station during the first phase of local elections in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. India says the polls are a vital grass roots exercise to boost development and address civic issues. Political separatist leaders and armed rebel groups who challenge India's sovereignty over Kashmir have called for a boycott, saying the polls are an illegitimate exercise under military occupation. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Elections for Kashmir councils begin amid anti-India strike

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In this Aug. 7, 2018 photo, huts stand on stilts in Majuli, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Majuli is said to be one of the largest river islands in the world, surrounded by the fast-moving waters of the massive, though braided, Brahmaputra river. Official data shows that Majuli has shrunk to nearly two-thirds of its original size and the situation is getting worse with increasingly erratic weather patterns and bursts of intense rainfall. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

AP Photos: Residents of India’s shrinking island struggle

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Tall iron advertising structure collapses in India; 3 killed

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