The Narendra Modi government announced the Bharat Ratna (posthumous) for Karpoori Thakur on Tuesday, and the Padma Shri on Thursday for Surendra Kishore, a senior journalist and close associate of the socialist leader, who has been practising outspoken journalism in Patna for the past five decades, and is renowned for his simplicity, honesty, and integrity
AFP Brandishing a bolt-action rifle, civil servant Sanjeet Kumar is one of 5,000 Kashmir villagers who have joined all-Hindu militia units armed and trained by Indian forces to fight off rebel attacks. India has more than half a million soldiers permanently stationed in the parts of Muslim-majority Kashmir it controls, as the Hindu nationalist government presses a bid to crush a decades-long insurgency. Authorities announced the new militias last year, and a deadly rebel assault in Kumar's frontier village in January prompted him to sign up.
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