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As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was enjoying the glitz of a White House state visit his spy chiefs were plotting to assassinate a dissident on American soil, according to security officials.

As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was enjoying the pomp and circumstance of a White House state visit last year his spy chiefs were plotting to assassinate a leading dissident on American soil, according to U.S. and Indian security officials. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill laid on all the trimmings, with lotus blooms, the symbol of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, decorating the south lawn, and a vegetarian chef flown in from California for the June 22 event. Meanwhile, Modi's spy service was finalizing the hit, according to an explosive report in the Washington Post.

An ABC journalist has been 'forced' to leave India after being told by the government that her reporting had 'crossed a line'. Avani Dias had had been working as South Asia bureau chief for Australia's national broadcaster in India since 2021, but on Tuesday she claimed to have been effectively thrown out of the country over her reporting on New Delhi's alleged involvement in the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada.

Nearly 970 million voters - more than 10 per cent of the world's population - will elect 543 ­members to the lower house of parliament over staggered rounds of voting, with polls opening on Friday. This election is considered one of the most consequential in India's history and will test the limits of Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party's political dominance. If Mr Modi wins he will be only the second Indian leader to retain power for a third term, after Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first prime minister.

According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un said Russian voters demonstrated their "unshakeable support and confidence" in Putin. According to Chinese state media, Beijing said that Russia and China were'strategic collaborators in the new period' and that the result 'fully displays the Russian people's support.' Modi, India's prime minister, extended his 'warm congratulations' to Putin, saying he looks forward to strengthening their 'unique' relationship, which includes Russia as India's largest arms exporter. Erdogan congratulated Putin on his re-election and offered to mediate between Moscow and Ukraine, according to the Turkish presidency.

Many seeking asylum from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan will be eligible for fast-rack citizenship in India under the rule. However, Muslim applications will not be accepted. The proposals, which were included in the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA), have been criticized for being Islamophobic. The law was actually passed back in 2019, but it sparked mass protests in which scores of people died and many more were arrested, resulting in a delay in the implementation of the plans. Minister Amit Shah of India took to social media to announce: "Prime Minister Narendra Modi has" kept another commitment and fulfilled the words of the Constitution's builders to the Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians living in those countries.' News protests have already begun

Footage showed a tower of fire at the firecracker plant, sparking the dispatch of hundreds of ambulances and army helicopters to evacuate the wounded at the factory in Harda, Madhya Pradesh state. Images from the factory site showed a wasteland of blackened and smoking ruins. The explosion, according to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, were "very sad news" and that medics at burn units in nearby major hospitals were encouraged to make "necessary arrangements.' 'Ambulances are being sent from the surrounding areas, and the army has been contacted to order helicopters,' Yadav wrote in a post on X, which has formerly Twitter.' At least 20 ambulances were on the scene, with 50 more being sent to support those who were wounded, according to the narrator.

After eight months of being in prison on suspicion of being a Chinese spy, a pigeon has been released back into the wild by Indian police. According to Press Trust of India, the bird was captured near a port in Mumbai last May and had two rings with words that seemed to be Chinese tied to its legs. The pigeon was found guilty of subpoena and sent it to Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals in Mumbai. The pigeon, on the other hand, was an open-water racing bird from Taiwan that had survived and landed in India. The bird was relocated to the Bombay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where doctors set it free on January 30.

COMMENT - LAWRENCE BOOTH: Shoaib Bashir (centre) of Somerset will look back on his first tour as an England cricketer with pride in years to come. First and foremost, he'll have to cope with the fact that his colleagues travelled to India without him. He was called up to the Test squad for one minute, sparked tears of delight, but he was reminded of his place in a part of the world where not everyone accepts his kind. On Monday, a British Muslim of Pakistani origins was waiting in Abu Dhabi for his visa to land, while the majority of Ben Stokes' (left) Bazballers trained in Hyderabad ahead of Thursday's first Test. He may have followed their development on social media, as well as on Facebook. It's almost futile to point out that people of Pakistani origin must clamber through extra hoops to gain admission to India if they are even here. The mood, which had been lifted by prime minister Narendra Modi (inset), has long taken an anti-Muslim turn.

In the city of Ayodhya, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a temple to Hindu God Ram on the site of a demolished mosque. Many film stars and cricketers attended the premiere, but many Hindu seers and opposition figures boycotted the function, alleging that it was being used for political gain ahead of months of voting. In 1992, Hindu demonstrators burned the 16th century temple, resulting in almost 2,000 deaths. Despite the country being constitutionally secular, 80% of Indians' population is around 80% Hindu, leading critics to predict that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to profit from religious zeal. By reading more, you will get a glimpse into the $217 million (£170 million) program.

The temple, which is also under construction, is dedicated to Lord Ram, the Hindu God of Sikhi, and fulfills a long-serving request by millions of Hindus who vene the revered deity. The consecration of the Ram Mandir temple in Malaysia is also seen as a significant step in converting Modi to a new term in forthcoming elections, with the Hindu awakening from centuries of subjugation by Muslim and colonial powers. Modi, a traditional kurta tunic, led the ceremony as Hindu priests sang hymns inside the temple's inner sanctum, where a 4.3-ft stone sculpture of Lord Ram was unveiled last week. However, the temple's construction, which stands atop the 16th-century Babri Mosque's rubble, is disputed. The temple site had been bitterly contested by Hindus and minorities for decades, sparking widespread protests in 1992 that killed 2,000 people, mainly Muslims, after a Hindu mob burned a 16th-century mosque that had stood on the premises.

In the face of increasing antisemitism gripping the Ivy League campus, a student at the University of Pennsylvania has refused to remain silent. 'If the university isn't going to uphold the statute and its own rules, then the court system will prevail,' the Israeli-American student explained. Eyal Yakoby, a 21-year-old senior, has taken legal proceedings against Penn, alleging that the school committed "egregious" misconduct by selectively enforcing its code of conduct, including refraining from excluding Jewish students from being barred from discrimination and bullying.

A plaque was unveiled by Charles, then Prince of Wales, marking the 'inauguration of a centre of excellence, education, and Indian traditional medicine' with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a hospital in west London in 2018. At St Charles Hospital in Kensington, it was suggested that Ayush treatments be provided to patients, who would be referred by local GPs.

Sarah Todd, a MasterChef contestant, revealed on Monday that she is working on a mystery cooking challenge with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The celebrity chef, 35, has always expressed her admiration for the country, and has split her time between Australia and South Asia. Todd and Mr Modi, 73, who were named as a 'Indian at Heart' in Elite's list of the 50 Most Influential Indians, have officially joined up, according to The Daily Telegraph.

The White House said on Wednesday that the US is treating a suspected plot to kill a Sikh rebel on American soil with the greatest urgency and has raised the issue with the Indian government at the highest level.' According to the Financial Times, US officials blocked a plot to murder a Sikh rebel in the United States, and they sent an alert to India over concerns that the government in New Delhi was involved.

Cummins' treatment at the Ahmedabad ceremony was described as "bloody rude" and "disgraceful," according to stunned Australian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, who was left utterly ill after being handed the award by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles.

Indian fans were left devastated after their team suffered a World Cup final loss that'broke a billion hearts,' but Cummins helped ease the agony by giving a touching gesture on Monday. Following a trophy presentation that was postponed due to a terrible moment, the Aussie skipper gained a following.

According to reports, the space agency told the British government that a Brit might make it aboard the Artemis III mission next year. For the first time in more than 50 years, the highly awaited launch is expected to bring humans back to the moon's surface for the first time in more than 50 years, making history by discovering the lunar South Pole. Only 12 people have walked on the moon's surface so far. All have been led by Nasa's Apollo space program, and none of them have been American.

On Sunday afternoon, Indian hearts were broken as Australia silenced a raging Narendra Modi stadium to win the Cricket World Cup A scintillating 137 off 120 balls for Travis Head, as Pat Cummins' side's bruising display of the ball gave them an impressive victory. Both Australia's opening games of the tournament, to India and South Africa, were unable to win nine games in a row.

An overnight earthquake in a remote area of Nepal killed at least 157 people. Late Friday, the 5.6-magnitude earthquake sank buildings and flattened mud houses in communities throughout the Himalayan country's isolated northwest districts. Locals screamed through the ruins in the dark to rescue survivors from the wreckage of their demolished homes as security forces rushed to assist with rescue operations. Another 199 people were killed in the earthquake, which was felt as far away as Indi a's capital New Delhi, nearly 500 kilometres (310 miles) from Jajarkot's epicentre. Given that thousands of locals were now homeless as a result of the tragedy, the death toll was expected to rise.

The new number, which was announced by US Customs and Border Protection last month, is more than double the number from the previous year - when crossings by Indians were already at a new high. What's more, an additional 1,600 people have moved across the northern border as a result of the rising phenomenon, four times more than the number of the last three years combined. Following recent demonstrations surrounding India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, nearly all turned themselves in to the Border Patrol, who interpret them as asylum seekers. The number of annual illegal border crossings from India has only surpassed 5,000 four times since 2007. A number of other factors, political and economic, have since fueled the sizable rise, which has also increased by estimates from other demographics.

Two trains crashed in India due to a "human error," according to At least ten people, who were injured. On Sunday, two coaches of one of the trains carrying 90 passengers were deterred by the other oncoming train, with one of the trains carrying 90 passengers being killed and the other oncoming train injured 27 others. According to a senior railways official, the incident occurred when the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada commuter train stopped due to a defect in an overhead cable and the oncoming train, a Visakhapatnam-Palasa Express service, rammed into it.

LAWRENCE BOOTH: The World Cup is not yet halfway through its 45-match group stage, but already the most frequently asked question is: can anyone stop India? They were still the tournament's only unbeaten team after winning in Dharamshala on Sunday. They've barely been tested, which is worrying at least as far as opponents are concerned. They have only lost 18 wickets in five games, although taking 46 wickets. It's been a parade, and a nation of over 1.4 billion people is beyond ecstatic, with The Times of India announcing that their team has 'acquired an aura of invincibility.' The cricketers are fueling the story, with nationalist sentiment fueled by prime minister Narendra Modi on high alert.

After Justin Trudeau accused India of being responsible for the death of a Canadian diplomat, India has taken the decision to exile 41 Canadian diplomats from their country. Since Trudeau openly accused Indian intelligence of killing Canadian civilian Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a charge that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has denied, tensions between Canada and India have risen. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said on Wednesday that revoking the diplomatic privileges of 41 diplomats is not only new, but also in violation of international law.'