Tag: India
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9 knife wielding Nigerians who attacked police in India arrested, drugs seized
Nine knife-wielding Nigerians allegedly peddling drugs in Mumbai have been arrested by India’s Anti-Narcotics Cell. During the arrest on Friday night, police recovered 104 grams of cocaine and nine grams of mephedrone, all worth Rs 5.38 lakh, from the accused who attacked the cops with knives while resisting search. According to Mumbai Mirror, the accused…
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639 farmers commit suicide due to crop failure
The Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil of India stated that 639 farmers have committed suicide in three months (March to May) this year due to diverse causes such as extensive debt, crop failure and the inability to repay bank loans. The lack of agricultural support prices, inadequate government policy, massive loans and the inability to…
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Six dead after poisonous gas leak at Steel Plant
Six workers died in a poisonous gas leak at a Brazilian-owned steel plant in India’s Southern State of Andhra Pradesh on Thursday, Police said. The accident occurred following maintenance work at the unit in the Anantapuramu district. “While testing, they used a gas in the furnace that had large components of carbon monoxide that the…
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Consortium of Indian firms to invest $100m in Cross River
A consortium of Indian firms under the auspices of Associated Chambers of Commerce, Industries, Agriculture and Mines (ASSOCHAM) has expressed its readiness to invest well over USD100 Million in se sectors of the Cross River State economy. Speaking with journalists shortly after inspecting some projects executed by Governor Ben Ayade in Calabar, the group attributed…
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New Delhi introduces ‘happiness curriculum’ at schools
Students at New Delhi’s government-run schools started getting lessons in how to be happy on Monday with the launch of a “happiness curriculum” devised by the Dalai Lama. The new initiative, which focuses on “holistic education,” covers 800,000 students from pre-kindergarten to teenagers at 1,000 schools. “India is the only country that can bring together…
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Nipah virus kills 10 in India
An outbreak of a deadly virus, Nippah which has flu-like symptoms has claimed 10 lives in the southern Indian state of Kerala, health officials said on Tuesday. “It is confirmed that 10 people have died from contacting the virus,’’ State Health Official, KJ Reena said. “Two more confirmed Nipah cases are critical and under intensive…
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16 dead after bridge collapses, others feared trapped
At least 16 bodies have been recovered from the debris of a flyover that collapsed in the Indian temple town of Varanasi on Tuesday. Several people were feared trapped, and the death toll could rise, Varanasi District Magistrate, Y.N. Mishra, said. Four people had been rescued so far, Mishra added. The flyover was under construction…
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240,000 Indian girls killed through sex-specific abortions annually – Study
Almost a quarter-of-a-million girls younger than five die in India every year due to neglect resulting from society’s preference for sons, a gender discrimination study found on Tuesday. This was over and above those aborted simply for being female, researchers wrote in The Lancet medical journal. “Gender-based discrimination towards girls doesn’t simply prevent them from…
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Nigeria to cooperate with India on ICT – Minister
The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has assured of Nigeria’s readiness to forge closer cooperation with India to achieve meaningful growth in the ICT sector. Adebayo made this known in Abuja while briefing newsmen about the proposed 4th edition of the Indo-Africa ICT conference and expo organised by Indian High Commission. The event marked this…
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Bizzare! Thunder fires 12 persons to death in Northern India
At least 12 people have died in a thunderstorm in the Northern Indian State of Uttar Pradesh in the past 24 hours, officials said Thursday. “While four people died in Etawah district, three were killed in Mathura, two in Firozabad and one each in Agra, Aligarh and Kanpur districts. “Some people died after lightning struck…