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CAPTION CORRECTS TO MATCH TEXT STORY - People participate in Tiranga Yatra or tricolor march to highlight the success of Operation Sindoor under which India struck targets inside Pakistan it said were affiliated with militants responsible for the massacre of 26 tourists last month in Indian-controlled Kashmir, in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
India disputes Trump’s claim that trade incentives led to the India-Pakistan ceasefire
The Indian government on Tuesday disputed U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S.-mediated ceasefire between India and Pakistan came about in part because he had offered possible trade concessions.
 
Indian soldiers patrol as a street vendor takes a nap after India and Pakistan reported no incidents of firing overnight, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Modi says India has only paused military action after it and Pakistan stop firing at each other
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India has only “paused its military action” and will “retaliate on its own terms” if there is any future terror attack on the country.
 
Red projectiles are seen over Srinagar, in Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
India and Pakistan accuse each other of violating ceasefire hours after reaching deal
India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire after U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades but accused each other of violating the deal just hours later.
 
A local resident shows a piece of shell fired by Indian forces, at his damaged house in Haveli Kahuta, a district of Pakistan's administered Kashmir, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Rashid Ahmed)
Indian and Pakistan troops swap intense artillery fire
Indian and Pakistani soldiers have exchanged heavy volleys of shells and gunfire across their frontier in Kashmir, killing at least five civilians in a growing military standoff.
 
Policemen stand guard on a road leading to the airport in Amritsar, India, after it was closed following India firing missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill)
India suspends flight operations and closes 24 airports as Pakistan resumes flights nationwide
Airlines in India have canceled hundreds of flights from two dozen airports until Saturday amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan.
 
Debris of an aircraft lie in the compound of a mosque at Pampore in Pulwama district of Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
India fires missiles on Pakistan. Islamabad calls it an ‘act of war’
Pakistan says it will avenge those killed by India’s missile strikes that New Delhi called retaliation for last month’s massacre of Indian tourists. Pakistan called Wednesday’s strikes an act of war and claimed it downed several Indian fighter jets.
 
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in parliament in London, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
UK and India sign a ‘landmark’ trade agreement after years of tough negotiations
Britain and India have agreed on a hard-wrought free trade agreement that will reduce or eliminate tariffs on Scotch whisky and scores of other products.
 
Indian security officers inspect the site where militants indiscriminately opened fired on tourists on Tuesday, in Pahalgam, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo, File)
India’s leader Modi touted all was well in Kashmir. A massacre of tourists shattered that claim
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration has governed Kashmir with an iron fist in recent years. The government has claimed militancy in the region was in check and a tourism influx was a sign of normalcy returning.
 
FILE -Mahesh Shah, left, stands as his family members look while census worker Rumima Das, writes the information on a paper on the first day of the national census at Ramsingh Chapori village, east of Gauhati, India, April 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)
India will include caste details in its next census
India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous nation. No date has been set for the survey of India’s more than 1.4 billion people.
 
A relative consoles Aishanya Dwivedi, sitting, during the cremation ceremony in Kanpur, India, of her husband Shubham Dwivedi who was killed by militants at Pahalgam in Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Vaibhav Shukla)
Indian survivors of Kashmir attack say gunmen asked if they were Hindus and opened fire
The Associated Press has collected some of the first witness accounts of the massacre in Indian-controlled Kashmir that left 26 people dead.
 
Kashmiri villager inspect the debris of the blown-up family home of Ahsan Ul Haq Shiekh, a militant who officials say is involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, at Murran village in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Indian military says Pakistani troops fired at positions along the border in disputed Kashmir
India’s military says Pakistani soldiers shot at Indian posts along the highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir for a second consecutive night.
 
Kashmiri villager women grieve as they sit outside the blown-up family home of Asif Shiekh, a militant who officials say is involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, at Monghama village in Tral, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Indian officials say troops exchanged fire with Pakistani soldiers in disputed Kashmir
Indian officials says that Indian and Pakistani soldiers briefly exchanged fire along their highly militarized frontier in Kashmir. The exchange comes as tensions soar between the nuclear-armed rivals following a deadly attack on tourists.
 
CORRECTS THE NAME OF THE TOWN TO WAGAH, NOT WAHAG - Pakistan's paramilitary soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint near Wagah, a joint border crossing point between the Pakistan and India border, Thursday, April 24, 2025.(AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
India and Pakistan again teeter on the brink of conflict over Kashmir. Here’s why
A deadly attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir has again moved India and Pakistan closer to war. The rivals have downgraded their diplomatic and trade ties, closed their main border crossing and revoked visas for each other’s nationals.
 
Police guard as ambulances carry bodies of tourists, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, April. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Indian-controlled Kashmir has been the scene of many violent attacks in past decades
At least 26 people were killed and more than a dozen injured after gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
 
A relative wails during the funeral procession of Adil Hussain Shah, a daily-wage worker, who died when militants indiscriminately opened fire on a crowd of mainly tourists on Tuesday, at his village Hapatnar, about 20 km (13 miles) from Pahalgam where the incident took place, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
India blames Pakistan for a deadly attack in Kashmir and suspends a key water treaty
India is blaming Pakistan for a militant attack that killed 26 people in Indian-held Kashmir, downgrading diplomatic ties and suspending a crucial water-sharing treaty.
 
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks at the Rajasthan International Center in Jaipur, India, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Vance calls for greater ties with India, hails progress on trade talks
U.S. Vice President JD Vance has called for greater collaboration with India in sectors such as defense, energy and technology. Both nations make incremental progress on negotiations for a bilateral trade deal by fall.
 
FILE – Clouds hang over the North Sentinel Island, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Nov. 14, 2005. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh, File)
US YouTuber remains in custody in India after visiting restricted island with a Diet Coke can
A 24-year-old American YouTuber who visited a restricted island in the Indian Ocean last month with a Diet Coke as offering for an isolated tribe has been further detained.
 
FILE – Clouds hang over the North Sentinel Island, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Nov. 14, 2005. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh, File)
American YouTuber who left a Diet Coke can for a reclusive island tribe is arrested in India
Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean to try to establish contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking intruders.