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India train disaster toll rises to 142, more dead feared

PUKHRAYAN, India (AFP) -- The death toll from India's rail disaster rose to 142 on Monday after workers toiled through…

Search teams look for survivors of India train derailment

  KANPUR, India (Reuters) -- Indian rescue workers picked their way through the last of the mangled carriages of a…

At least 120 killed as Indian train derails

https://youtu.be/3pEd6mOXiak   by Sanjay Kanojia Pukhrāyān, India (AFP) -- Emergency workers raced to find any more survivors in the mangled…

Stampede kills 24 at religious gathering in India

  by Sanjay Kanojia VARANASI, India | AFP | -- A stampede at a religious gathering in northern India killed…

Militants killed as three-day Indian Kashmir gunbattle ends

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - A gunbattle which lasted almost three days in Indian Kashmir ended Wednesday with the killing of…

India ratifies historic Paris climate change pact

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- India, the world's third biggest carbon emitter, ratified the Paris agreement on climate change on…

India says hits Pakistan-based militants, escalating tensions

  (REUTERS )  Indian officials said elite troops crossed into Pakistan-ruled Kashmir on Thursday and killed suspected militants preparing to…

French fighter jet deal: an Indian saga

New Delhi, India (AFP) by Alexandre MARCHAND The less-than-supersonic sale of French Rafale fighter jets to India has highlighted the…

Duterte, Obama shake hands and chat after rift over insult

  (REUTERS)  U.S. President Barack Obama and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte shook hands and had a brief chat on Wednesday,…

US, India bolster ties, warn Pakistan over extremists

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) - by Nicolas REVISE The United States and India urged Pakistan Tuesday to do more to counter…

Indian man blames ‘spiritual powers’ for swallowing 40 knives

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- An Indian policeman who spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically…

Indian ‘oldest man ever’ says yoga, celibacy key to age

KOLKOTA, India (AFP) -- Looking remarkably unlined for his claimed 120 years, an Indian monk who says he is the…

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