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Women of all ages are staging sit-ins across India to protest a controversial law that many believe openly discriminates against Muslims.
At least 23 people have been killed in India protesting Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi's new citizenship law that excludes Muslims.
Critics slammed the law as a violation of India's secular constitution and called it the latest effort by the Modi government to marginalize the country's 200 million Muslims.
Many of the victims were factory workers who were asleep when the blaze ignited on Sunday morning in the Indian capital, authorities said.
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The predominantly Muslim area has been under lockdown and near-total communications blackout since Monday.
Islamabad said there were no casualties in the strike near the town of Balakot, close to the border with Pakistan’s section of Kashmir.
“Sometimes the whole place smells of petrol. What choice do we have?”
Obama gave advice to a transgender activist while conducting a town hall in New Delhi, India.
A U.S. embassy measure showed levels of poisonous airborne particles had reached 495, compared with the upper limit of “good” quality air at 50.
“Delhi has become a gas chamber," a senior Indian official warned this week.