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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.
 
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

 
Raza Academy members shout slogans in Mumbai, India, to condemn the Waqf amendment bill that was passed early Thursday by the Lower House of India's parliament, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

India’s parliament passes bill that would change Muslim land endowments

 
A Kashmiri Muslim man prays inside the shrine of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani, commonly known as Dastageer Sahib, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

India’s parliament set to debate controversial law on Muslim endowments

 
Policemen watch as vehicles are torched during communal clashes sparked by protests demanding removal of the tomb of 17th-century Muslim Mughal ruler Aurangzeb in Nagpur, India, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo)

Indian city sets curfew after Hindu groups demand demolition of 17th century Muslim ruler’s tomb

 

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India fires missiles on Pakistan in what Islamabad calls ‘act of war’

Tensions have soared between the nuclear-armed neighbors since an April attack in which gunmen killed 26 people, mostly Indian Hindu tourists, in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
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A sign displayed at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, a Hindu temple, is defaced with anti-India and anti-Hindu graffiti in Chino Hills, Calif., on March 7, 2025. (BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha via AP)

Southern California Hindu temple desecrated with anti-India and anti-Hindu graffiti calls for peace

 
A woman has her face smeared with coloured powder as they celebrate Holi, the festival of colours, in Chennai, India, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

AP PHOTOS: With a kaleidoscope of colors, the Hindu festival of Holi signals the arrival of spring

 
Holi festival Holi celebration at the Lord Jagannath temple in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Millions of people celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors

 

Activists in Trinidad and Tobago push to include women’s occupations on Hindu marriage act

 
Hindu devotees wait in a queue to offer prayers during Shivaratri festival in Jammu, India, India, Wednesday, Feb.26, 2025. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

AP PHOTOS: Devotees across India celebrate the Shivaratri festival in honor of Hindu god Shiva

 
A holy man smokes marijuana at the Pashupatinath Hindu temple during Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Tens of thousands gather for Hindu festival at Nepal temple, with many lighting up marijuana joints

 
Eru Matsumoto, from left, Wouter Kellerman, and Chandrika Tandon accept the award for best new age, ambient, or chant album for "Triveni" during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Hindu devotional singing is having a moment

 
The shadow of a pilgrim falls on a sari held up to dry at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers during Maha Kumbh festival, in Prayagraj Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

AP PHOTOS: The traditional sari is on colorful display at a massive Hindu festival in India

 
Men with tonsured heads sit in rows for initiation into an order of naked Hindu ascetic holy men known as the Naga Sadhus, during the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

AP PHOTOS: Hundreds join an order of naked, armed holy men at Hindu festival

 
Naga Sadhus or Naked Hindu holy men take dips at Sangam, the confluence of three sacred rivers the Yamuna, the Ganges and the mythical Saraswati, on Vasant Panchami during the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.(AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Hindu ascetic rising from the river after a holy dip is emblematic of Maha Kumbh festival in India

 
A Hindu devotee gets a sacred mark on his forehead after bathing at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna, and the Saraswati rivers during the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Sacred strokes of color on foreheads are a major display of Hinduism at India’s Maha Kumbh festival

 
Leaders of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, the country's largest minority rights group, hold a press conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh minority rights group accuses interim government of failing to protect minorities

 
Hindu devotees gather to take a holy dip in the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers, on "Mauni Amavasya" or new moon day during the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India’s Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious gathering, by the numbers

 
Rain puddles are seen at the scene of a fatal stampede, in Fulrai village of Hathras district about 350 kilometers (220 miles) southwest of the state capital Lucknow, India, on July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

A look at stampedes and crowd disasters in India over the years

 
Security officers carry a woman out from the site of a stampede at the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers, on "Mauni Amavasya" or new moon day during the Maha Kumbh festival, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Police say at least 30 people have died in a stampede at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in India

 
Naga Sadhus for ritualistic dips at Sangam, the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati on one of the most auspicious day Makar Sankranti, for the Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Millions of pilgrims and naked, ash-smeared ascetics take holy dips in India’s mega Hindu festival

 
Hindu devotees pray before taking a dip at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers on the first day of the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

India kicks off a massive Hindu festival touted as the world’s largest religious gathering

 
Police officials clear the way for the vehicle carrying Krishna Das Prabhu, a jailed Hindu leader, after a court rejected his plea for bail, in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo)

Bangladesh court again rejects bail for Hindu leader who led rallies

 
Members of the temple community participate in a Gita Jayanti ceremony hosted by ISKCON New York on Dec. 8, 2024, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Nikhil Trivedi/Religion News Service via AP)

On Gita Jayanti, Hare Krishnas celebrate the birth of the sacred text Bhagavad Gita

 
Supporters of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) denouncing attacks in India on a diplomatic mission and alleged desecration of Bangladeshi flags, participate in a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo)

Supporters of Bangladesh Nationalist Party hold protest march as tensions continue with India

 
This combination photo of portraits shows Indigenous Nagas during the Hornbill Festival in Kisama, on the outskirts of Kohima, capital of the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

AP PHOTOS: In India’s northeast, Nagas showcase traditional culture at Hornbill Festival

 
People shout slogans condemning reported attacks on Hindu and other minorities in Bangladesh during a protest near the Bangladesh diplomatic mission in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Hundreds protest in New Delhi against reported attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh

 
Supporters of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) shout slogans during an anti-India protest outside the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, Bangladesh Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. A banner, rear, reads "One People, One Country, Bangladesh." (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh and India hold talks aimed at defusing escalating tensions

 
Hindu holy men, or Sadhus, inspect a site for their camp on the banks of the Ganges river for the upcoming Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world's largest religious festivals, in Prayagraj, India, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

AP PHOTOS: An Indian state prepares for a Hindu festival that’s the largest such gathering on Earth

 
Members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) shout slogans during a protest outside the Bangladesh High Commission in Mumbai, India, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Bangladesh court defers Hindu leader’s bail hearing as tensions with India spike

 
Bangladeshi Hindu leader Krishna Das Prabhu shows a victory sign as he is taken in a police van after court ordered him detained pending further proceedings in Chattogram in southeastern Bangladesh, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP photo)

Lawyers in southeastern Bangladesh boycott courts after violence kills 1

 
Bangladesh Hindus shout slogans during a protest rally to demand that an interim government withdraw all cases against their leaders and protect them from attacks and harassment in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladeshi court denies bail to Hindu leader who led rallies for minority protection

 
A vehicle burns during a clash between protesters and police in Sambhal, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo)

4 killed after a survey of a mosque sparks clashes in a northern Indian city

 
Bangladesh Hindus participate in a rally demanding that an interim government withdraw all cases against their leaders and protect them from attacks and harassment, in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo)

Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh rally to demand protection from attacks

 
Fire crackers and smoke fill the city skyline as a part of Diwali celebrations at Shivaji Park in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024.(AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

What is Diwali, the Festival of Lights? How is it celebrated in India and the diaspora?

 
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