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FILE -In this May 10, 2012 file photo, Fatima Munshi collects water for domestic consumption from a community faucet outside her home in Khandwa, India. Living in Australia, Saroo Brierley, 30, was reunited with his biological mother, Munshi, in Feb. 2012, 25 years after an ill-fated train ride left him an orphan on the streets of Calcutta. Their story was the basis of the 2017 Oscar-nominated film &quot;Lion.&quot; (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

Before “Lion,” the story behind an unlikely family reunion

By KRISTEN GELINEAU and RAVI NESSMAN - Associated Press

Tibet women’s soccer team denied US travel visas

By JOE REEDY - Associated Press

Relatives grieve around the body of Srinivas Kuchibhotla after the body was flown from the US to his residence on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Kuchibhotla, 32, was killed in Wednesday night's shooting at Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas and another person was wounded. (AP Photo /Mahesh Kumar A.)

Mother of slain Indian man told him to leave US if in danger

By OMER FAROOQ - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by Kranti Shalia, Srinivas Kuchibhotla, right, poses for photo with his wife Sunayana Dumala. In the middle of a crowded bar, a 51-year-old former air traffic controller yelled at two Indian men - Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani - to &quot;get out of my country,&quot; witnesses said, then opened fire in an attack that killed one of the men and wounded the other, as well as a third man who tried to help, Thursday, Feb 23, 2017, in Olathe, Kan. (Kranti Shalia via AP)

GPS device-maker Garmin reeling after Kansas worker killed

By JIM SUHR - Associated Press

A man shows a picture of Alok Madasani, an engineer who was injured in the shooting Wednesday night in a crowded suburban Kansas City bar, on a mobile phone as Madasani's father Jaganmohan Reddy talks to the media at his residence in Hyderabad, India, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. The shooting of two Indians in the crowded suburban Kansas City bar has sent shock waves through their hometowns, and India's government is rushing diplomats to monitor progress in investigation into the crime. The suspect, Adam Purinton, has been taken into custody and charged on Thursday with murder and attempted murder. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Shooting of 2 Indians in US bar sends shock waves in India

By OMER FAROOQ - Associated Press

‘Human books’ on loan at Penn State library

By BILL SCHACKNER - Associated Press

Illustration on the Baker/Schultz carbon tax plan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Carbon tax will not help environment and make Americans poorer

By Stephen Moore

Florida jewelry company accused of cheating artisans

By JUSTINE GRIFFIN - Associated Press

India denies Pakistan claim of building secret nuclear city

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, an Indian vendor who sells snacks and chewable tobacco reads a Gujarati language newspaper that has the headline &quot;this time Trump Government&quot; in Ahmadabad, India. The U.S. and India seem like a natural fit in the era of President Donald Trump: rambunctious democracies, led by populists, focused on economic growth and fighting radical Islam. It’s a budding partnership that could be set back by a nuts-and-bolts dispute over employment visas. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

Visa changes could stunt budding US-India ties under Trump

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

In this Jan 30, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, looks out of a window of a hotel during a trial event for Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. Growing up as the fifth son in a poor farming family in rural Nepal the dream to be a fashion model came late in life. First came a long, painful struggle to accept that he felt deeply female. It was a chance encounter with a group of transgender women that turned Lama's life around by putting her in touch with the Blue Diamond Society, an advocacy group for Nepal's LGBT community. In 2005 she came out to her friends and family as a transgender woman. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Transgender Nepali has her big moment on Indian catwalk

By MUNEEZA NAQVI - Associated Press

Sri Lanka arrest astrologer who predicted president’s death

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

Illustration on the future of U.S./India relations under Trump by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

India’s great Trump hope

By Sarosh Bana

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India’

By Martin Rubin

President Donald Trump gestures towards GM CEO Mary Barra, right, before the start of a meeting with automobile leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. From left are, Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council and the former governor of Missouri. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Latest: Trump vows to ‘send in the Feds’ to help Chicago

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India’s low-cost airline to buy up to 205 new Boeing planes

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Indians deposited discontinued notes on the last day in a bank in Gauhati, India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi yanked most of its currency bills from circulation without warning, delivering a jolt to the country's high-performing economy and leaving countless citizens scrambling for cash. (Associated Press)

India’s rupee demonetization policy creates cash crunch

By Petra Sorge and Sunaina Kumar — Special to The Washington Times

India official met Trump national security adviser this week

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Syed Tariq Fatemi, special assistant on foreign affairs to Pakistan's prime minister, said his country is in constant contact with Iran about prospects for commercial ties. (Associated Press)

Tariq Fatemi, Pakistani aide, sees opening for better ties with Trump administration

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times