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FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2017 file photo, Indian lawyer and social activist Prashant Bhushan speaks to the journalists about the petition filed by two Rohingya Muslim refugees against their deportation to Myanmar, outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi, India. India's top court has allowed the federal government to send seven Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar in the first deportation of members of the Myanmar minority group since it last year ordered their identification. The Supreme Court on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018 rejected a plea by Bhushan, a defense attorney, to let them live in India as they feared reprisal in Myanmar. They were arrested in 2012 for entering India illegally and have been held in a prison. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal, File)

India deports Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar

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India, Russia likely to sign arms deal during Putin’s visit

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India to begin deportations of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar

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Firefighters work to control a fire at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. A fire broke out in a pharmacy at a state-run medical college and hospital complex in eastern India, causing panic among nearly 250 patients who have been evacuated to safe wards. No casualties have been reported. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

250 patients evacuated in hospital fire in eastern India

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In this April 20, 2015 file photo, an Indian man sleeps on the roof of his house at a shanty area in New Delhi, India. The United Nations is celebrating a government program officials say can be a model for other low-income and developing countries at a summit this week in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

India’s sanitation summit overshadows problems that persist

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Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly,Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

India, Pakistan clash in UN over support for terrorists

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India’s top court refuses to release 5 rights activists

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In this Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, Hindu worshippers stand in long queues outside the Sabarimala temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala. India's Supreme Court on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, lifted the temple's ban on women of menstruating age, holding that equality is supreme irrespective of age and gender. The historic Sabarimala temple had barred women age 10 to 50 from entering the temple that is one of the largest Hindu pilgrimage centers in the world. (AP Photo/ Hareesh Kumar A S, File)

India’s top court lifts temple’s ban on women who menstruate

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE- In this Sept. 6, 2018 file photo, gay rights activists celebrate after the country's top court struck down a colonial-era law that made homosexual acts punishable by up to 10 years in prison, in Mumbai, India. India's Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has presided over a string of verdicts in recent weeks that grant more rights to women, gay couples and religious minorities as he prepares to retire from the bench next month. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)

Adultery verdict is latest progressive ruling by India court

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This combination of file photos show, from left to right; then Malaysia’s President-elect Mahathir Mohamad, Maldives President-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and Pakistan politician Imran Khan. The three Muslim-majority South Asian countries have recently elected leaders who campaigned on promises to move away from China’s growing sphere of influence. The surprising elections of nonagenarian Mahathir Mohamad in Malaysia, cricketer Imran Khan in Pakistan and longtime opposition lawmaker Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in the Maldives could signal problems for the continued development of Beijing’s “Belt and Road” initiative to build ports, highways and other trade-related infrastructure. (AP Photo, File)

Asian victors may find anti-China campaign vows hard to keep

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5 suspected rebels, India soldier killed in Kashmir fighting

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India mob attacks police after Maoist rebels kill lawmaker

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An Indian police officer pays his respects to fallen colleagues at a base camp at shopian, about 63 kilometers south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. Anti-India rebels in disputed Kashmir raided over a dozen homes of police officers and abducted three whose bullet-riddled were recovered Friday, officials said. The killings came days after the region's largest rebel group asked officers to quit the Kashmiri police force and stay away from counterinsurgency operations. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Anti-India rebels abduct and kill 3 policemen in Kashmir

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File- In this July 19, 2009 file photo, an Indian Border Security Force soldier, right, and a Pakistani Rangers soldier face one another at a daily closing ceremony at the Wagah border post near Lahore, Pakistan. India has called off a planned meeting between its foreign minister and her Pakistani counterpart on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session in New York this month, aggravating tensions between the longtime rivals. Foreign Ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar said Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, that India's decision to pull out of the meeting, which had been announced a day earlier, follows the killing of an Indian border guard in Kashmir and Pakistan's glorification of insurgents fighting Indian rule in the Himalayan territory. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

India calls off foreign ministers’ meeting with Pakistan

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Illustration on freedom of religion in India by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

When extremist Hindu nationalism starts to spread

By Joseph D'Souza

In this Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, photo released by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, center, visits the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Khan, a former cricketer, is on a tour of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as part of his first overseas trip since taking office. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Pakistan PM tells Indian counterpart he’s ready to talk

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Indian police arrest man for allegedly raping his daughter

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Kashmiri Shiite Muslims shout slogans amid tear smoke as they clash with Indian policemen during a Muharram procession in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Police and paramilitary soldiers on Wednesday used batons and fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Muslims participating in religious processions in the Indian portion of Kashmir. Authorities had imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar, the region's main city, to prevent gatherings marking Muharram from developing into anti-India protests. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Police break up Muslim gatherings in Indian-held Kashmir

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FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2017 file photo, Indian Muslim women rest inside Jama Masjid mosque in New Delhi, India. India's government on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018, approved an ordinance to implement a top court ruling striking down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce. The government decision came after it failed to get approval of Parliament a year after the court ruled that the practice of triple &quot;talaq&quot; violated the constitutional rights of Muslim women. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal, File)

India bans instant divorce by Muslim men

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Indian police arrest nurse after woman’s death in abortion

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