Tag: India

Seven killed in new Kashmir battle

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) — Indian troops suffered new losses Monday in a fierce battle with Kashmir militants that left at least seven dead just days after a suicide bomber killed 41 paramilitaries in the troubled territory, officials said. The confrontation piled more pressure on the Indian government, which has blamed Pakistan for Thursday’s suicide attack on a paramilitary convoy that sparked widespread calls for action against the country’s neighbor and nuclear arch-rival. Shooting continued for […]

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Four Indian soldiers killed in battle with Kashmir militants: police

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) — At least four soldiers died Monday in a fierce gunfight with rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir just four days after a suicide bomber killed 41 paramilitaries in the troubled territory, officials said. One soldier and one civilian were also critically wounded in the shootout as troops launched a search operation in Pulwama district where the suicide bomber struck on Thursday. “Four soldiers were killed during the shootout and another one is injured,” a senior police officer told AFP […]

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Four Indian soldiers killed in Kashmir battle with militants: police

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) — At least four soldiers died Monday in a fierce gunfight with rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir just four days after a suicide bomber killed 41 paramilitaries in the troubled territory, officials said. One soldier and one civilian were also critically wounded in the shootout as troops launched a search operation in Pulwama district where the suicide bomber struck on Thursday. “Four soldiers were killed during the shootout and another one is injured,” […]

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37 killed in Indian Kashmir attack

by Parvaiz BUKHARI Agence France Presse SRINAGAR, India (AFP) — At least 37 Indian paramilitary soldiers were killed on Thursday in Indian-administered Kashmir in one the deadliest attacks on government forces there, police said. The suicide bombing outside Srinagar claimed by an Islamist group is likely to ratchet up tensions between nuclear-armed arch rivals India and Pakistan, with New Delhi long accusing Islamabad of supporting militants. “The sacrifices of our brave security personnel shall not […]

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Fire at budget Delhi hotel kills 17

  by Abhaya Srivastava Agence France Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — At least 17 people died when a fire ripped through a budget hotel in Delhi on Tuesday, with victims including a woman and a child who reportedly jumped from a window to escape the blaze. Images showed thick smoke and flames billowing out of the top floor of the Hotel Arpit Palace in a congested part of the Indian capital. Guests at the […]

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At least nine dead in India hotel fire: official

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — At least nine people were killed and three others injured when a fire engulfed a hotel in New Delhi on Tuesday, a senior official said. The blaze broke out before dawn at Hotel Arpit Palace in a congested part of central Delhi. “Nine people are dead including a woman and a child. Three people are injured,” G.C. Misra, the director of Delhi Fire Services, told AFP. © Agence France-Presse

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Ten trapped by avalanche in Indian Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India (AFP) — Rescuers battled Friday to reach the site of an avalanche that buried 10 people in Indian-administered Kashmir following two days of heavy snowfall across the region, police said. The avalanche hit a fire emergency facility late Thursday in the Banihal area of the Kashmir valley. Six police, two prisoners and two other personnel had taken refuge there during a storm. “We have not been able to rescue anyone so far because […]

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Indian PM Modi sends condolences for lives lost in Jolo blast, condemns terror attack

  (Eagle News) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent his condolences for the lives lost in the fatal Jolo blasts that has killed at least 20 people and injured several others. Modi was among the many world leaders who have sent letters expressing their deep condolences to Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte for the terrorist attack on a Catholic cathedral in the middle of a mass service in Jolo, Sulu in the restive south […]

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First Indian film museum opens in home of Bollywood

by Udita Jhunjhunwala and Peter Hutchison Agence France Presse MUMBAI, India (AFP) — From silent black-and-white films to colorful blockbusters bursting with song and dance, the evolution of Indian cinema is traced by a new museum in the home of Bollywood. Costing 1.4 billion rupees ($19.6 million), India’s first national film museum is spread across a stylish 19th-century bungalow and a modern five-storey glass structure in south Mumbai. “It showcases to the world outside what […]

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Swine flu kills 40 in western India

JAIPUR, India (AFP) — At least 40 people have died and more than 1,000 have tested positive for swine flu since the beginning of this year in a western Indian state popular with foreigners, authorities said Friday. Last year around 1,100 people died and 15,000 were infected across India by the highly contagious A H1N1 virus that spreads from human-to-human. Cases spike in the winter months of December and January in the west and north […]

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India gives Volkswagen 24 hours to pay Dieselgate fine

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s environmental court Thursday threatened Volkswagen executives with arrest and gave the German automaker a day to pay $14 million for violating pollution norms by fudging emission tests. The “Dieselgate” scandal, which saw VW cheat emissions tests on millions of diesel vehicles, has already cost the firm over $30 billion in fines, recalls and compensation worldwide. India’s National Green Tribunal ruled in November VW must deposit a fine of 1.7 […]

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India launches new bid to battle dirty air

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India has launched a new campaign to improve air quality in more than 100 of its pollution-stricken cities, although an environment group said it lacked detail and the legal backing to ensure it is enforced. Air quality in the country of more than 1.25 billion people has deteriorated to critical levels in recent years, with the capital New Delhi and 13 other Indian cities in the top 15 of a […]

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