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NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Suspected Maoist rebels killed 12 paramilitary commandos on Monday in a remote part of central India, a police official said, the latest attack in the country’s simmering internal conflict. “So far, we know that 12 CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) personnel have been martyred in the Maoist attack,” Bhagwati Singh, a police spokesperson in restive Chhattisgarh state, told AFP by telephone.
MUMBAI, India (AFP) — Indian doctors said Thursday that an Egyptian who was believed to be the world’s heaviest woman had successfully undergone weight-loss surgery after losing over 100 kilograms (220 pounds). Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, who previously weighed around 500 kilos, had not left her house in Egypt in over two decades until arriving in Mumbai last month for bariatric surgery. “We are happy to inform all well-wishers that the medical team of […]
MAHARASHTRA, India (Reuters) — Aajibaichi Shaala is not your ordinary school in India. The students at “grandmothers’ school” in the village of Phangane, 120 km (75 miles) east of the financial capital, Mumbai, are elderly women who are getting the chance to learn to read. Clad in pink saris, their school uniform, the women walk every afternoon along dusty village paths to their lessons. The women begin class with a prayer and then dive into […]
INDIA (Reuters) — A gold rush in India. Jewellers across the country seeing a massive surge in people wanting to spend big on the country’s favourite precious metal, despite New Delhi’s recent shock cash crunch. Imports surged 82 percent in February, compared to the same time last year. That translates to 50 tonnes of gold. Reuters Euan Rocha explains what’s leading the turnaround. “Big factors in the Indian market without a doubt is wedding season. […]
SRIHARIKOTA, India (AFP) — India successfully put a record 104 satellites from a single rocket into orbit on Wednesday in the latest triumph for its famously frugal space agency. Scientists gathered for the launch in the southern spaceport of Sriharikota burst into applause as the head of India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced all the satellites had been ejected. “My hearty congratulations to the ISRO team for this success,” ISRO director Kiran Kumar told scientists […]
CHENNAI, India (AFP) — Hundreds of students and fishermen were working Friday to clean up an oil spill on India’s southern coast that campaigners say threatens the turtles that nest there every year. The Indian Coast Guard said around 35 kilometers (21 miles) of coastline off the southern city of Chennai had been affected by the spill which occurred when two ships carrying fuel collided last week. Campaigners and fishermen have accused the government of […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP ) — Scientists will take the tape measure to Mount Everest to determine whether a massive earthquake in Nepal really did knock an inch off the world’s tallest peak. India’s top surveyor said Tuesday a team of scientists would be sent to neighbouring Nepal to measure Everest in the hope of putting to rest a debate about the true height of the towering mountain. A deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal in […]
(Reuters) — At least 32 people were killed and dozens more injured on Saturday (January 21) night when nine coaches of a passenger train derailed in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh, in the latest disaster to hit the vast and accident-prone state railways, officials said. The express train from Jagdalpur to Bhubaneswar derailed near Kuneri station, around 30 km (18 miles) outside the town of Raigarh. District collector of Raigarh district in India’s […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nagsagawa ng maritime exercise sa Manila Bay noong Enero 10 ang Philippine Coast Guard at Indian Coastguard. Sa nasabing pagsasanay, dalawang barko ng PCG at Indian Coast Guard ang nagsanib pwersa para rumesponde sa kunwari’y nasusunog na barko. Water cannon ang ginamit ng dalawang bansa para maapula ang apoy. Gumamit din ang PCG ng oil spill boom sa paligid ng barko upang mapigilan ang oil spill. Bukod dito, nagsagawa rin ng […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — An Indian plane carrying 161 passengers and crew skidded off the runway at Goa airport early Tuesday, injuring 15 people. The Indian Navy, which runs the airport in western India, said it was not yet clear what caused the Jet Airways plane to veer off the runway. The incident happened at the height of the tourist season in Goa, whose palm-fringed beaches attract thousands of holidaymakers every year. “There are […]
by Alexandre Marchand Agence France Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Many precious stones have a blood-soaked history, but a new book reveals the world’s most famous diamond the Koh-i-Noor surpasses them all, with a litany of horrors that rivals “Game of Thrones”. The Koh-i-Noor (“Mountain of Light”), now part of the British Crown Jewels, has witnessed the birth and the fall of empires across the Indian subcontinent, and remains the subject of a bitter ownership […]
CHENNAI, India (AFP) — Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the chief minister of south India’s Tamil Nadu state and one of the country’s most popular political leaders, has died after a prolonged illness, hospital authorities announced late Monday night. “It is with indescribable grief, we announce the sad demise of our esteemed honorable chief minister of Tamil Nadu … at 11:30pm (local time) today (December 5),” Chennai’s Apollo Hospital said in a statement released to the media. Doctors […]
