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MAY 27 (Reuters) — A scorching heat wave sweeping India has now killed nearly 800 people, with most of the victims in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. People are doing all they can to cope with the sweltering heat as temperatures soar to near 50 degrees Celsius in some places. The most severely affected states – Andhra Pradesh and Telangana – have witnessed 333 and more than 200 people die respectively, according […]
(REUTERS) — Indian media reported at least 17 people were killed in India on Saturday (April 25) when an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale hit neighboring Nepal. The Nepal death toll from the powerful earthquake rose to 688, a senior home ministry official told Reuters at around 1130gmt, with 181 people killed in the capital Kathmandu. The figure was expected to rise rapidly. It was the worst quake to hit the impoverished Himalayan nation […]
A seven year old boy in India was called the Wonder Kid, he managed to memorize information about 250 countries.
In India, a 10 month old baby astounds visitors because he is already as big as a six year old child.
An engineer in the Central Public Works Department in India was dismissed after being discovered that he was absent from work since 1990.
(Reuters) – India extended a $100 million export credit to Vietnam for defense deals and tightened energy ties on Monday, signaling a more confident foreign policy ahead of a visit this week by China’s President Xi Jinping. India’s new accords with one of China’s rivals for influence in the South China Sea came as Xi visited the nearby islands of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, a reminder of the geostrategic jostling that is becoming an […]
By Peter Drysdale Editor, East Asia Forum The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India this week, so early in the term of India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, underlines the growing strategic weight of the relationship between the two countries. Modi’s prime ministership, with its ambition to re-invigorate India’s stalled economic reform and growth, more than any other single factor, promises to accelerate its potential growth radically. Modi has runs on the board […]
(Reuters) — At least 38 people were feared dead after a landslide triggered by heavy rains submerged an entire village in Udhampur district of Kashmir, said a police officer on Monday (September 8). Over 20 houses were buried under the landslide. The administration has recovered seven bodies while 31 people are still missing. Additional Superintendent of police, Khalil Poswal, said rescue operations were underway to trace further survivors or victims within the debris. “An entire village, which had […]
(Reuters) – The prime ministers of India and Pakistan have offered to help each other in efforts to alleviate flood havoc in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, lowering tension between the rival nations after weeks of army clashes and heated rhetoric. Kashmir is divided by one of the world’s deadliest and most heavily militarized borders. Both the Indian and Pakistani sides have been ravaged by floods that have killed at least 239 people as […]
The Al-Qaeda group has announced its new branch in the Indian sub-continent.
Japan and India have agreed to strengthen strategic ties and re-affirm the importance of defense relations between the two countries.
India’s rural affairs minister died in a car accident in New Delhi.
