India
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Despite the odds and with immense determination, one might have a SLIM chance of overcoming a leopard, though not without sustaining severe injuries. In a remarkable incident in India, Rajagopal Naik was motorcycling with his family when they were suddenly ambushed by a leopard. The wild animal latched onto his wife’s leg with its teeth.…
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India clinched a win against Malaysia by 5-0 in their second match of the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2023 at the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Astroturf Hockey Stadium in Ranchi on Saturday. Vandana Katariya (7′, 21′), Sangita Kumari (28′), Lalremsiami (28′) and Pooja (38′) scored the goals and helped the Indian women’s hockey team seal…
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Canada postponed its much-ballyhooed trade mission to India without explanation, but the prime ministers of the two countries clashed at the recent G20 Summit about Sikh separatist protests. On the Canadian federal government trade website, International Trade Minister Mary Ng had hyped the trip, scheduled for Oct. 9, as important in its strategy to expand…
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Imran Khan has been arrested for the second time in a matter of months, but this time the reaction looks very different. What could happen next? There could not have been a starker contrast between 9 May and 5 August this year. While Imran Khan’s first arrest led to protests in the streets from Peshawar…
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“I cannot carry on God, please help me,” a mother says as she struggles to understand what has happened to her family. Her pain and trauma is unimaginable. Her 21-year-old daughter was gang raped, assaulted and paraded naked by a mob in northeast India. Her husband and 19-year-old son were bludgeoned to death when they…
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Jennifer Mistry has revealed that even when she wanted to quit Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah a few years ago, the producers threatened her. Jennifer Mistry revealed that ever since she accused the producers of the popular TV show Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah of sexual misconduct, the people in her housing society have stopped…
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Anger is growing in India, now the world’s most populous nation, renewing calls for authorities to confront safety issues in a railway system that transports more than 13 million passengers every day. India’s extensive rail network is one of the largest in the world and built more than 160 years ago under British colonial rule. Today,…
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Manto Kumar was traveling on the Coromandel Express with six of his friends when his train compartment began to violently shake like an earthquake. “Suddenly something crashed into us. Some of the coaches rolled to the other side,” the 32-year-old restaurant worker told CNN from a hospital in India’s eastern Odisha state. “I got up and wrapped…
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A student of Uttar Pradesh’s Shiv Nadar University allegedly shot and killed his woman classmate on campus before shooting himself dead, police said. The 21-year-old later killed himself at the boy’s hostel. Both were third-year students of BA Sociology, the police informed. “Around 1.30pm on Thursday, the administrative officials of Shiv Nadar University alerted the police that…
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Sanctioned Russian banks now have access to one of the world’s largest markets, due to a recent decision by the Indian government to permit cross-border trade settlements in rupees to promote Indian exports. To settle trade deals under rupee trading, Indian banks have to open special rupee-vostro accounts in the trading partner country’s banks. The…
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A joint investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Sunday Times found that an Indian computer hacking group allegedly targeted dozens of British government officials, businessmen, and journalists critical of Qatar ahead of the FIFA World Cup this month. The investigation found that criminal activity began in 2019, and was allegedly commissioned by “one particular client,”…
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India has called on rich countries to fulfilL a decade-old promise to provide $100 billion in annual climate finance to developing nations. In 2009, a coalition of economically developed countries – including the USA, France, Germany, and the UK – pledged to give climate change-impacted nations $100 billion (€101 billion) per year by 2020. This promise has not…
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Three students from India who were attending universities in Connecticut died in a two-vehicle crash in western Massachusetts this week, authorities said on Thursday. Five other people were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries suffered in the crash at about 5:30 am Tuesday in Sheffield, according to a statement from the Berkshire district…
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People in India – especially in the northern part – generally get a bonus from their employers during the auspicious occasion of Diwali. The bonus may vary from a small to an expensive gift or from a little to large amount of cash given in hand or transferred to a bank account. While any type…
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An Iranian hermit nicknamed the “world’s dirtiest man” for not taking a shower for more than half a century has died at the healthy old age of 94, state media has reported. Irna news agency reported that “Amou Haji”, an endearing nickname for an elderly person, died on Sunday in the village of Dejgah in the…
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