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Kalmane Kamegowda, a 72-year-old shepherd, is reflected in a pond he created at a hillock near Dasanadoddi village, 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. Kamegowda, who never attended school, says he's spent at least $14,000 from his and his son’s earnings, mainly through selling sheep he tended over the years, to dig a chain of 16 ponds on a picturesque hill near his village. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Indian shepherd combats water scarcity by building ponds

By AIJAZ RAHI - Associated Press

Protesting farmers listen to a speaker at the Delhi- Haryana border, outskirts of New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. India’s Supreme Court on Thursday suggested that the government consider delaying implementation of new agricultural reform laws to restore a dialogue with tens of thousands of protesting farmers who say the legislation will drive down crop prices and devastate their earnings. (AP Photo)

India’s PM offers to address concerns of protesting farmers

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

India’s winter of discontent: Farmers rise up against Modi

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Indian state outlaws religious conversion by marriage

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept.14, 2020, file photo released by India Government Press Information Bureau, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media as he arrives at the Parliament in New Delhi, India. Modi held his first phone conversation with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, and they agreed to work closely to further advance the Indo-U.S. comprehensive global strategic partnership, India’s External Affairs Ministry said Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. (India Government Press Information Bureau via AP, File)

Biden, Modi discuss US-India ties in phone conversation

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Voters stand in queues maintaining social distance at a polling station, during the first phase of state elections at Paliganj, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. With an overall declining coronavirus positive trend, Indian authorities decided to hold the first state legislature election since the outbreak of COVID-19. People began voting Wednesday in the country’s third largest state Bihar with of a population of about 122 million people. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)

India holds first major state elections since pandemic

By INDRAJIT SINGH - Associated Press

An employee wearing a face mask to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus arranges dolls at a shop in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. The steady spread of the coronavirus caused concern in a country that eased its social distancing restrictions just last week to cope with a weak economy. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Asia Today: Vaccine promise is election issue in India state

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After outrage, Indian brand pulls ad with interfaith couple

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

A health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19, as others await their turn in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. India's coronavirus cases have crossed 4 million, leading the world in new infections and deepening misery in the country's vast hinterlands where surges have crippled the underfunded health care system. Initially, the virus ravaged India's sprawling and densely populated cities. It has since stretched to almost every state, spreading through villages. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s COVID-19 fatalities top 100,000, behind US, Brazil

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media as he arrives at the Parliament in New Delhi, India, Monday, Sept.14, 2020. Indian lawmakers have returned to Parliament after more than five months even as coronavirus cases continue to surge at the fastest pace than anywhere else in the world. (AP Photo)

India’s Modi faces turbulent session as Parliament reopens

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort monument on Independence Day in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India to invest $1.46 trillion to lift virus-hit economy

By ASHOK SHARMA and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2019, file photo, an Indian paramilitary soldier patrols during a security lockdown after the Indian government stripped the Himalayan state’s semi-autonomous powers in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. A year after India ended disputed Kashmir's semi-autonomous status and downgraded it to a federally governed territory, authorities have begun issuing residency and land ownership rights to outsiders for the first time in almost a century. Many Kashmiris view the move as the beginning of settler colonialism aimed at engineering a demographic change in India’s only Muslim-majority region. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin, File)

India’s residency law in Kashmir amplifies demographic fears

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

FILE-In this Nov. 11, 2019 file photo, Hindu devotees pray while walking towards a temple, in Ayodhya, India. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a groundbreaking ceremony next month for a Hindu temple on a disputed site in northern India where a 16th-century mosque was torn down by Hindu hard-liners in 1992. The trust overseeing the temple construction says the ceremony is set for Aug. 5, a date they say is astrologically auspicious for Hindus but that also marks a year since the Indian Parliament revoked the semi-autonomous status of its only Muslim-majority state, Jammu and Kashmir. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

India’s PM to attend temple groundbreaking at disputed site

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2019, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the BRICS Business Council prior to the 11th edition of the BRICS Summit, in Brasilia, Brazil. From industrialists and foreign companies to celebrities and ordinary citizens, people from all walks of life pitched in for a newly created fund touted to strengthen India’s fight against the deadly virus the next day. More than three months later, the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund, or the PM CARES fund, is now valued at more than $1 billion but has since run into controversy over an alleged lack of transparency and accountability, along with a general lack of clarity over the control, the donors and the use of money donated to it. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Indian leader’s virus fund won’t disclose donors, payments

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

In this Sept. 14, 2017, file photo, a banner erected by the Indian army stands near Pangong Tso lake near the India China border in India's Ladakh area. Modi made an unannounced visit Friday, July 3, 2020, to a military base in remote Ladakh region bordering China where the soldiers of the two countries have been facing off for nearly two months. Modi’s visit comes in the backdrop of massive Indian army build-up in Ladakh region following hand-to-hand combat between Indian and Chinese soldiers on June 15 that left 20 Indian soldiers dead and dozens injured, the worst military confrontation in over four decades between the Asian giants. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Narendra Modi visits military base close to China amid standoff

By Aijaz Hussain - Associated Press

Naga women wear masks as a precaution against the coronavirus and walk past closed shops early morning in Kohima, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Several Indian states have reimposed partial or full lockdowns to stem the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Yirmiyan Arthur)

PM Modi says virus status ‘critical,’ warns of carelessness

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Kashmir Squeeze Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

In this time of COVID-19, Kashmir endures a ‘double lockdown’ over India’s warmongering

By Asad Majeed Khan

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the BRICS Business Council prior to the 11th edition of the BRICS Summit, in Brasilia, Brazil. Modi announced Tuesday, May 12, 2020, that the government will spend the equivalent of nearly 10% of the country's GDP on a coronavirus virus economic relief package designed to make the world's second most populous nation more self reliant. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

India’s prime minister announces huge virus relief package

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FILE - In this March 31, 2020, file photo, Muslim pilgrims wait in bus that will take them to a quarantine facility, after a government raid discovered the largest viral cluster in India at the Nizamuddin area of New Delhi, India. Muslims in India are being stigmatized after the government blamed an Islamic missionary meeting for a surge in coronavirus cases. Experts who have studied previous epidemics warn that the stigma could hamper efforts to stop the contagion and prevent many from getting themselves tested. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Indian Muslims face stigma, blame for surge in infections

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SHEIKH SAALIQ and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

In this April 3, 2020, photo, Rajesh Dhaikar's children play with balloons in their house in Prayagraj, India. Dhaikar has a small balloon stall in a nearby market, selling plastic bursts of red and blue and yellow one at a time, and rarely earning more than $2.50 a day. His wife, Suneeta, makes about $20 a month cleaning homes. They have five children, ranging in age and a bank account with about $6.50 in it. India has launched one of the most draconian social experiments in human history, locking down its entire population, including hundreds of millions of people who struggle to survive on a few dollars a day. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

‘I am so afraid’: India’s poor face world’s largest lockdown

By SHEIKH SAALIQ and TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press