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Data from two top ship tracking firms revealed that shipments of Russian crude oil to China and India, Russia’s top two buyers, rose by ten percent in May to hit record levels despite the Biden administration’s pleas to cut down on Moscow’s prodigious income stream by respecting sanctions and price caps.

Rajesh Biswas, a food inspector working for the state of Chhattisgarh in India, was fined 53,092 rupees (about $640) and suspended from his position on Friday because he ordered over four million liters of water drained from a reservoir so he could look for his missing cell phone. 

Members of the majority-Christian Kuki tribe of northern Manipur, India, accused the government of Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday of “tacitly” supporting the mob violence displacing tens of thousands of Christians in the region.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Thursday produced a report that found “clean energy” investments have skyrocketed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, driven by anxiety over volatile fossil fuel prices and the cutoff of oil and gas supplies from Russia.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over a raucous 20,000-person stadium event in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday evening – a warm welcome to the Hindu nationalist leader in response to his decision to visit the country anyway after Joe Biden canceled a stop there.

American retail titan Walmart announced Sunday that it will begin importing toys, shoes, and bicycles from Indian firms, as well as increasing its purchases of food and health products.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received an enthusiastic welcome in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Sunday, including his PNG counterpart touching his feet in a traditional Indian gesture of respect to elders.

Starbucks India launched a transgender acceptance ad campaign last week. It was met with considerable anger by customers in the Hindu-majority nation, who resented the coffee company for attempting to infuse American “woke” politics into Indian culture.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi described his country’s diversity as “the nation’s real strength” and celebrated the nation’s northeast in a letter published Monday amid ongoing anti-Christian riots that have displaced tens of thousands of people in northeast Manipur.

The ongoing eruption of mob violence against Christians in northeastern Manipur, India, has met with so little law enforcement resistance that participation rioters post videos of themselves attacking churches online to “show off,” David Curry, the president and CEO of Global Christian Relief, told Breitbart News.

Riots in northeastern India’s state of Manipur have killed 62 people over the past week and driven some 35,000 from their homes.

Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn, a principal supplier of components for the Apple iPhone, announced Tuesday it will purchase a large parcel of land near the Indian tech hub of Bengaluru.

The Chinese Ministry of Public Security (MPS) published a video on its official Weibo page, the largest regime-controlled social media site in China, featuring Chinese dancers in brown face paint and turbans pretending to be Indian.

India and Russia on Thursday suspended talks about using the Indian rupee as currency to settle their bilateral trade, greatly disappointing Indian importers who wanted Russia to embrace their national currency but reassuring Americans worried about the dollar losing its coveted position as the standard medium of international trade.

Foreign nationals from around the world are flying to northern Mexico to wait for President Joe Biden to end Title 42, one of the few remaining border controls, on May 11 so they can rush the United States-Mexico border.

A recently published U.S. State Department grant opportunity, accepting applications through Wednesday, offers tens of thousands of dollars to English teachers in Pakistan who specialize in teaching “transgender youth,” in addition to other marginalized communities such as Afghan refugees.

Multiple reports in the past week, including on the state news site Ukrinform, claimed that Pakistan is finalizing deals with Ukraine to both purchase Ukrainian military hardware and provide Kyiv with air-defense systems.

The official Twitter account of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine caused an uproar in India this weekend by posting an illustration appearing to show the Hindu goddess of destruction Kali dressed as Marilyn Monroe.

Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar spent this week touring Latin America to boost India’s profile in the Western hemisphere.

President Joe Biden will visit Sydney next month for the first meeting of Quad leaders on Australian soil.

The number of Indian migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats is now larger than the figure for Albanians, government data has shown.

A married couple on a farm in India appear to have beheaded themselves with an iron guillotine as part of a sacrificial ritual in which they ensured that their severed heads would role onto a fire altar inside a prayer hut.

India is on track to become the world’s most populous nation as its young population soars, and will surpass China by mid-2023, according to data released by the United Nations on Wednesday.

India Today on Tuesday reported on a troubling surge of Chinese troops to the Doklam region, where a deadly hand-to-hand battle was fought between Indian and Chinese troops in 2017.

Silicon Valley’s biggest tech corporations are continuing mass layoffs in the United States, even as they import more than 34,000 foreign H-1B visa workers to take coveted white-collar jobs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields, new analysis shows.

Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, apologized on Monday after a viral video of him inviting a young boy to “suck my tongue” caused surprise and anger across the world. The Dalai Lama’s office insisted the incident was “innocent and playful.”

Christians are still facing serious persecution in India in 2023, including attempts by Hindu mobs to drive Christian residents completely out of some villages.

The Philippine government hinted on Tuesday that it would welcome a permanent defense attaché from India, a sign of growing military cooperation between the two countries against the common menace of Communist China.

The Indian government on Tuesday angrily rejected China’s attempt to change the names of eleven locations in the Indian province of Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing has been trying to seize.

A concrete slab covering a well inside a Hindu temple in the central Indian city of Indore gave way on Thursday, killing 36 people and injuring 16 more.

Multiple ministers in the government of Australia expressed this week an interest in expanding exports of lithium to India, in response to concerns that America has become too lucrative a market for exports and may corner lithium supplies.

Indian commerce minister Piyush Goyal told attendees at an industry event on Tuesday that his country had surpassed $740 billion in goods and services exports, a record significantly higher than the $500 billion in exports that India documented between 2020 and 2021.

The Russian oil corporation Rosneft announced on Wednesday that it had come to an agreement with the government-owned Indian Oil Corporation to “substantially increase oil supplies as well as diversify the grades to India.”

A growing conflict between India’s Hindu-majority government and Sikh separatists spilled over into Canada on Saturday, as hundreds of Canadian citizens with family ties to India’s Punjab gathered in Vancouver to protest reported human rights violations by Indian security forces.

India’s parliament, the Lok Sabha, on Monday was roiled by angry protests from opposition members against the expulsion of India Congress Party (INC) leader Rahul Gandhi.

Politicians of South Asian Heritage seem to be having a moment in the British Isles, holding some of the most powerful political offices.