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New Delhi (AFP) Jan 5, 2024 - Squeezed between giant arch-rivals India and China, the landlocked mountain kingdom of Bhutan was long isolated by icy Himalayan peaks.
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 5, 2024 - Squeezed between giant arch-rivals India and China, the landlocked mountain kingdom of Bhutan was long isolated by icy Himalayan peaks.
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Three-quarters of a century after independence, India is a nuclear power about to become the world’s most populous country, and its economy has overtaken its former coloniser’s to become the globe’s fifth biggest. But New Delhi has challenges to overcome if it is to secure a more central place on the world’s diplomatic stage, analysts say.
India is tapping a new energy source that promises to help clean up smog-choked cities and is already providing a vital revenue stream for poor Indian farmers: truckloads of bovine manure. Cows are venerated as sacred creatures by the country’s Hindu majority. They also have pride of place in India’s rural communities, where they are still regularly used as draught animals. Rural households have long burned sun-dried cattle droppings to heat stoves, a practice that continues despite government efforts to phase it out with subsidized gas cylinders. Villages on the outskirts of the central Indian city of Indore are now
India's poor cannot afford to beat the heat Jul 11,2021 - Last updated at Jul 11,2021 In this file photo taken on July 4, a cyclist covers his face with a cloth to shield from the scorching sun as he peddles along a road on a hot summer afternoon in Sri Ganganagar in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan (AFP photo) By Bhuvan Bagga Agence France-Presse SRI GANGANAGAR, India- Beating the merciless heat is hard in the Indian desert city of Sri Ganganagar, a reality facing millions across the vast country as the climate changes in the coming decades. While people in richer nations can find some respite from a warming planet with air conditioners and other modern luxuries, many here — and elsewhere in India — don't even have running water.
Last picture show looms for British India's summer capital In this photograph taken on August 29, 2020, a projectionist works in a projector room at the Shahi Theatre in Shimla. With its ancient humming projector and elegant balcony, the Shahi Theatre is the last surviving single-screen cinema in Shimla, the Himalayan hill station that was once the summer retreat of British India. Money SHARMA / AFP. by Bhuvan Bagga (AFP) .- With its ancient humming projector and elegant balcony, the Shahi Theatre is the last surviving single-screen cinema in Shimla, the Himalayan hill station that was once the summer retreat of British India.
Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images For the past few years, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a far-right Hindu nationalist faction, have dominated national politics. Since coming into power in 2014, Modi and BJP have attacked the foundations of India’s political system, gradually undermining the guardrails protecting democracy. But this weekend saw a notable setback for Modi: an electoral defeat by a larger-than-expected margin. In local elections held in five states, the BJP lost the biggest prize: control of the Legislative Assembly in West Bengal. The defeat came amid gathering signs of trouble for Modi’s quest to dominate India — the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreak, attributable in no small part to government policy, foremost among them.