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Indian court appoints committee to run national Olympic body

Aug. 17, 2022 03:30 AM EDT
NEW DELHI (AP) — A court in India has appointed a committee to take over the running of the national Olympic committee and hold fresh elections within four months in...

The Italian flag, right, flies next to Greece, center, and China during the closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Olympics say goodbye to Asia after a star-crossed run

By Stephen Wade Feb. 23, 2022 12:08 AM EST

Exile Tibetans burn a Chinese flag during a protest against Beijing Winter Olympic Games in New Delhi, India, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Hundreds of Tibetan exiles are marching outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, denouncing the Beijing Winter Olympics and demanding freedom for their region. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Tibetans in India demonstrate against Beijing Olympics

By Shonal Ganguly Feb. 04, 2022 02:46 AM EST

FILE-In this photograph provided by the Indian Army, army officers of India and China hold a meeting at Pangong lake region in Ladakh on the India-China border on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. India will not attend Friday's opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, after one of the torchbearers reportedly chosen by Chinese authorities riled up New Delhi's anger. India's foreign affairs spokesman Arindam Bagchi on Thursday said it was "regrettable that the Chinese side has chosen to politicize an event like the Olympics." (Indian Army via AP, File)
EXPLAINER: Why India won't send diplomat to China Olympics

By Sheikh Saaliq Feb. 04, 2022 02:13 AM EST

FILE- Indian traders reacting to the killing of Indian troops in a clash with Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh burn Chinese products and a poster president Xi Jinping during a protest in New Delhi, India, June 22, 2020. India will stay away from the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics with an Indian official accusing China of politicizing the event. India objected to China using a soldier involved in fighting with Indian forces in Eastern Ladakh as a torchbearer for the Olympics ceremony. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
Riled up by torchbearer, India skips China Olympics opening

By Ashok Sharma Feb. 03, 2022 08:22 AM EST

Indian ministers Kiren Rijiju, left and Anurag Thakur, right, applaud as Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra displays the gold medal he won in the men’s javelin at the Tokyo Games during a felicitation function at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug.9 2021. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Olympic gold medalist Chopra returns to India as superstar

By Shonal Ganguly Aug. 09, 2021 09:27 AM EDT

Daily wage laborers wait to be employed for the day, on a street in Mumbai, India, Friday, June 11, 2021. India’s economy was on the cusp of recovery from the first pandemic shock when a new wave of infections swept the country, infecting millions, killing hundreds of thousands and forcing many people to stay home. Cases are now tapering off, but prospects for many Indians are drastically worse as salaried jobs vanish, incomes shrink and inequality is rising. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Pandemic relapse spells trouble for India's middle class

By Krutika Pathi Jun. 12, 2021 12:55 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 5, 2021, file photo, a farmer waits for customers at a wholesale market on the outskirts of Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India. On Monday, June 7, 2021, businesses in two of India’s largest cities, New Delhi and Mumbai, are reopening as part of a phased easing of lockdown measures in several states now that the number of new coronavirus infections in the country is on a steady decline. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)
India to provide free vaccines to all in major policy shift

By Sheikh Saaliq Jun. 07, 2021 02:18 AM EDT

A Kashmiri shopkeeper cleans the display of his shop that was opened following a partial relaxation in the lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, May 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Mukhtar khan)
Indian economy, hit by COVID-19, shrinks by 7.3% in 2020-21

By Krutika Pathi May. 31, 2021 08:51 AM EDT

FILE - This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twitter on Thursday, May 27, 2021 said it is worried about the safety of its staff in India and called for the government to respect freedom of expression, days after Indian police visited its office in New Delhi over its labeling of a tweet by a governing party spokesman as “manipulated media.” (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Twitter urges Indian gov't to respect freedom of expression

By Sheikh Saaliq May. 27, 2021 06:12 AM EDT

Protesting farmers burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Delhi- Haryana border, outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Farmers are marking six months of their agitation against the new agricultural laws they say will leave them poorer and at the mercy of big corporations. The government has billed the laws as necessary to modernize agriculture. Multiple rounds of talks between the government and farmers have failed to end the stalemate. (AP Photo/Ishant Chauhan)
Indian farmers mark 6 months of protest with no end in sight

Rishabh Raj Jain May. 26, 2021 07:51 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 19, 2021, file photo, a physically disabled man seeks alms as people walk past during the relaxation hours of lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Bengaluru, India. The disparities of the coronavirus pandemic were already stark in India, where access to health care is as stratified and unequal as other parts of its society. Now, the divide along the lines of wealth and technology are further widening that chasm, and many people are falling through the gaps as vaccines remain inaccessible to millions. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)
Vaccine inequality in India sends many falling through gaps

By Neha Mehrotra And Sheikh Saaliq May. 26, 2021 01:05 AM EDT

Pakistan's top health official Faisal Sultan poses for photograph at his office in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, May 24, 2021. Sultan who is overseeing the country's response to coronavirus said Monday the new COVID-19 variant that devastated neighboring India by causing record infections and deaths had not been found in Pakistan yet. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
Top Pakistan health official doesn't foresee India scenario

By Munir Ahmed May. 24, 2021 12:34 PM EDT

An Indian laborer works during the setting up of a temporary 500 bedded COVID-19 hospital by the Defence Research and Development Organization in Jammu, India, Monday, May 24, 2021. India crossed another grim milestone Monday of more than 300,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of infections appeared to be easing in big cities but was swamping the poorer countryside. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
India virus death toll passes 300,000, 3rd highest in world

By Sheikh Saaliq May. 24, 2021 12:26 AM EDT

Gangaiah, son of Padmavathi who died of COVID-19, gives sanitizer to his elder daughter Shanti as two-year-old Priya looks on inside their family hut which is made from bamboo and plastic sheeting at a slum in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Padmavathi collected hair, taking it from women's combs and hairbrushes to later be used for wigs. She earned about $50 a month. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
The poor, the rich: In a sick India, all are on their own

By Aniruddha Ghosal And Aijaz Hussain May. 23, 2021 01:29 AM EDT

Gangaiah, son of Padmavathi who died of COVID-19, holds his two-year-old daughter Priya outside their family hut in a slum in Bengaluru, India, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Padmavathi collected hair, taking it from women's combs and hairbrushes to later be used for wigs. She earned about $50 a month. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
The poor, the rich: In a sick India, all are on their own

By Aniruddha Ghosal, Aijaz Hussain And Tim Sullivan May. 23, 2021 01:27 AM EDT

FILE- In this May 10, 2021, file photo, people waiting to get vaccinated against the coronavirus stand outside the closed gates of a hospital in Ghaziabad, outskirts of New Delhi, India. The capital of New Delhi is seeing some improvement in the fight against the coronavirus, but experts say the crisis is far from over in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people. Hospitals are still overwhelmed and officials are struggling with short supplies of oxygen and beds. (AP Photo/Amit Sharma, File)
Glimmer of hope seen in India, but virus crisis not over yet

By Krutika Pathi And Aniruddha Ghosal May. 17, 2021 01:09 AM EDT

From left, Dr. Abhu Kaur, Manpreet Kaur, director for Khalsa Aid USA, and Ray Fredericks, assistant director for Medisys, sort and pack dozens of electrical transformers, which will be shipped to New Delhi with oxygen concentrators this week on New York’s Long Island, Friday, May 7, 2021. With teams deployed in India to help support COVID-19 patients, Khalsa Aid USA plans to provide a total of 500 oxygen concentrators and 500 transformers to cities throughout the country. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Across faiths, US volunteers mobilize for India crisis

By Luis Andres Henao And Jessie Wardarski May. 11, 2021 12:07 AM EDT

People above eighteen years age queue up to get vaccinated against the coronavirus in Gauhati, Assam, India, Monday, May 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
In India's northeast there's fear of a virus surge to come

By Wasbir Hussain And Aniruddha Ghosal May. 10, 2021 06:18 AM EDT

Family members place a cloth on the body of Rajendra Prasad Mishra, 62, who died due to COVID-19 before cremation by the River Ganges in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
The Latest: France welcomes EU curb on AstraZeneca vaccine

By The Associated Press May. 09, 2021 07:17 AM EDT