A woman found in an Indian cave where she lived with her two young daughters has been returned to Russia, a local official told the BBC. Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters, aged six and five, were rescued on July 9 by police conducting a search…
After the tragic crash of Air India Flight 171, which claimed the lives of 241 people, the sole survivor has recounted the terrifying moments leading up to his rescue. The Financial Express reports on the story. After the tragic crash of Air India Flight 171, which claimed the lives of 241 people,…
A shepherd from the village of Sonurli on the evening of July 27 in the Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra (a state in western India) heard women screaming. He called the police, who found a woman chained to a tree in the jungle nearby, New Delhi Television reported. A 50-year-old woman was found...
Twenty-four people have been killed by lightning strikes and about 23 injured due to heavy rains in the western Indian state of Gujarat over the past two days, Reuters reports. According to the state government, the state experienced heavy rainfall on November 26 and 27, which...
At least 60 people in India have committed suicide due to insidious loan schemes spanning 14 countries around the world. An undercover investigation by the BBC has revealed those who benefited from this deadly scheme in India and China. My aunt's phone call woke me up...
A map showing that you can sail straight from India to the US has raised eyebrows among social media users and even impressed Elon Musk. The New York Post writes about this. The photo of a two-dimensional map that has received 6 million views since...
A government official in India has been suspended after he ordered a dam reservoir to be drained to retrieve his phone. More details about the incident told the edition of the BBC. It took three days to pump out millions of liters of water from the dam after…
As the loud hum of the fans echoes through the room, 95-year-old Premwati Gupta periodically moves her bony limbs as her grandson feeds her holy water from the Ganges River. There are no medical devices or life-saving drugs to revive her from her deathbed to an almost empty...
Indian police have arrested more than 2000 men in the northeastern state, including girls under the age of 18, as part of their fight against illegal child marriages. This writes CBS News. More than 50 Hindu priests and Muslim clerics are among those arrested. They are accused of...
In India, an 8-year-old boy killed a cobra. She wrapped herself around his arm and, in order to protect herself, the child bit her twice. The Independent writes about it. A boy named Deepak was playing in the backyard of his house in the Jashpur district in the central Indian state...