Tag: India
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Panic as stray dogs kill 6 children
Police on Monday said packs of stray dogs have mauled six children to death in Northern India in recent days, sparking panic among villagers, who are afraid to go their farms and are keeping their children at home. District police chief Anand Kulkarni said by phone that the victims, aged between five and 12 years,…
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6 wedding guests electrocuted in eastern India – Police
Police said six wedding guests were electrocuted when a live high-tension power wire fell on top of a bus conveying them to a wedding in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. “The freak incident took place in Chennari area of the state’s Rohtas district late Tuesday night when a live high-tension power wire fell on…
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24 injured in cylinder explosion
Police said 24 people have been injured in a cylinder explosion at a crowded labour colony in the northern Indian state of Punjab Thursday, police said. “The explosion took place when some laborers were cooking in one of the makeshift houses in New Smart Colony in the Giaspura area of Ludhiana city,” a police official…
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Indian Court sentence spiritual guru to life imprisonment for raping teenager
An Indian spiritual guru with millions of followers around the globe was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for raping a young female devotee. Judge Madhusudan Sharma found Asaram Bapu, 77, guilty of raping the 16-year-old girl at his ashram near the northern city of Jodhpur in 2013, lawyers linked with the case said. The…
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21 wedding guests killed in India road accident – Police
Police on Wednesday said 21 members of a group travelling to a wedding in central India were killed when the small truck in which they were travelling fell off a bridge into a dry river bed. Senior administration official Dilip Kumar said at least 29 others were injured in the accident late Tuesday in Madhya…
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Crude bomb blast at Indian government relief office in Nepal
A crude bomb went off outside an Indian government relief office in Nepal causing minor damage but no injuries, officials said on Tuesday, in what appeared to be a rare gesture of Nepali anger toward its giant neighbor to the south. The blast happened in Biratnagar town, near the Indian border, 200 km (125 miles)…
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Google appeals Indian antitrust watchdog’s ‘search bias’ verdict: sources
Online search giant Google has filed an appeal at the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal against a judgment from India’s competition watchdog that found it guilty of search bias, official sources told media on Tuesday. The appeal was filed on Monday, one of the sources said. In February, the Competition Commission of India imposed a…
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Journalist shot inside residence near Indian capital
A journalist was shot and wounded critically inside his residence near the Indian capital city New Delhi, police said Monday. The TV journalist Anuj Chaudhary working with a Hindi news channel was shot Sunday evening in Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) on the outskirts of New Delhi. “Last evening two assailants came on a motorcycle and barged…
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PM Modi sets 2025 deadline to eradicate tuberculosis from India
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday set 2025 as the deadline year to eradicate tuberculosis from India, five years ahead of global target. “A target has been set to end TB globally by 2030. I would like to announce that we have set an aim to eradicate it from India five years ahead by 2025,”…
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Fraud probe: India seizes 10,000 luxury watches of billionaire jeweler
Indian authorities have seized over 10,000 imported luxury watches belonging to disgraced billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and his firms in connection with the country’s biggest-ever bank fraud of 1.8 billion U.S. dollars, an enforcement official said Saturday. “All the luxury watches were meant for sale through Modi’s jewellery stores across India. “Earlier, we…