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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

ASHOK SHARMA

File: Indian workers aspiring to be hired for jobs in Israel line up during a recruitment drive in Lucknow, India, January 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
April 5, 2024, 3:09 pm
Dozens of Indian construction workers fly to Israel to replace Palestinian laborers
New Delhi says it has urged Israeli authorities to ensure safety of new workers amid ongoing war; thousands have flocked to apply for jobs since Palestinians barred after October 7
By ASHOK SHARMA
Journalists film the live telecast of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon at ISRO's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility in Bengaluru, India, Aug. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
August 23, 2023, 4:40 pm
India becomes 4th nation to put spacecraft on the moon
Country joins the US, Soviet Union and China in achievement as it seeks to cement its growing space prowess, days after Russian lunar failure
By ASHOK SHARMA
Workers at the site of a deadly train derailment, in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, June 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
June 4, 2023, 9:12 am
Rescue work ends for deadly train disaster in India that killed over 300
Workers begin to clear wreckage as preliminary findings show improper signaling responsible for crash that led to derailing of two trains
By RAFIQ MAQBOOL and ASHOK SHARMA
People stand around a structure built over an old temple well that collapsed, as a large crowd of devotees gathered for the Ram Navami Hindu festival in Indore, India, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo)
March 31, 2023, 10:20 am
35 bodies recovered from well after structure collapses at Indian temple
Well cover caves in under weight of large crowd, which gathered to celebrate Hindu festival; municipality ordered temple to remove unsafe cover in January, but they refused
By ASHOK SHARMA
Family members of COVID-19 victims leave as their funeral pyres burn at an open crematorium set up at a granite quarry on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, May 5, 2021. (Aijaz Rahi/AP)
May 6, 2021, 10:21 am
India hits another dire record in COVID-19 outbreak with 3,980 deaths in a day
Daily caseload of infections again reaches over 400,000 as country scrambles for oxygen supplies, with demand jumping sevenfold
By ASHOK SHARMA
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs the groundbreaking ceremony of a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Ram, in Ayodhya, India, August 5, 2020 (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
August 6, 2020, 8:29 pm
Indian PM lays foundation of Hindu temple at site of razed mosque
Disputes over the site have sparked deadly riots and communal clashes in the past, though Muslim leaders now say they are resigned to the construction of the new house of prayer
By BISWAJEET BANERJEE and ASHOK SHARMA
Security personnel fire teargas during demonstrations against India's new citizenship law in Meerut on December 20, 2019. (Stringer/AFP)
December 20, 2019, 11:59 pm
Death toll rises to 14 in India clashes over new citizenship law
6 people killed in Uttar Pradesh, including 2 from gunfire, as unrest grows over legislation that critics say marginalizes Muslims
By ASHOK SHARMA
The Indian parliament building is seen from behind a Mahatma Gandhi statue, right, in New Delhi, India, February 23, 2016. (Manish Swarup/AP)
June 17, 2019, 10:15 am
Dozens of new Indian parliamentarians face charges, including rape and murder
Backlog of 30 million court cases enables even those accused of serious crimes to successfully run for office
By ASHOK SHARMA
Indians dance as they wait to welcome Indian fighter pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman at India Pakistan border at Wagah, 28 kilometers (17.5 miles) from Amritsar, India, March 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill)
March 2, 2019, 1:00 am
Pakistan frees captured Indian pilot in ‘gesture of peace’
Pakistani aviation authorities partially reopen airspace in further sign of apparent de-escalation between nuclear-armed neighbors
By ASHOK SHARMA and Zaheer Babar
Indian members and supporters of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community celebrate the Supreme Court decision to strike down a colonial-era ban on gay sex, in Mumbai on September 6, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / INDRANIL MUKHERJEE)
September 6, 2018, 11:33 am
India decriminalizes gay sex in landmark verdict
Supreme Court justices unanimously vote to end colonial-era ban that made homosexual acts punishable by up to 10 years in prison
By ASHOK SHARMA
US President Barack Obama meets with Saudi King Abdullah at Rawdat Khuraim, Saudi Arabia on March 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
January 24, 2015, 8:23 pm
Obama to shorten India trip to fly to Saudi Arabia
US president abridges unprecented visit to travel to kingdom for memorial of late King Abdullah
By Julie Pace and ASHOK SHARMA
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporter wears a mask of Narendra Modi, most likely India's next prime minister, after preliminary results showed the BJP winning by a landslide, outside the party headquarter in New Delhi, India, on Friday, May 16, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Manish Swarup)
May 16, 2014, 12:40 pm
India opposition wins landslide, early tally shows
Nehru-Gandhi family drubbed as hundreds of millions vote in world‘s largest democracy
By ASHOK SHARMA
A young boy participates in a candlelight vigil protesting against a leader of the ruling Congress party on accusations he raped a woman in a village in the early hours of the morning, in Gauhati, India, Friday. Footage on Indian television showed the extraordinary scene of local women surrounding Bikram Singh Brahma, ripping off his shirt and repeatedly slapping him across the face. A Dec. 16 gang rape on a woman, who later died of her injuries, has caused outrage across India, sparking protests and demands for tough new rape laws, better police protection for women and a sustained campaign to change society's views about women. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
January 5, 2013, 8:58 am
‘She has awakened us all by her courage,’ says India gang rape victim’s friend
Man describes agonizing wait for assistance amid ‘shocking apathy’ after they were thrown out of the fateful bus
By ASHOK SHARMA
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