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...
Rescuers in India are trying to find survivors of a three-train accident that killed hundreds of people. It became one of the worst rail disasters the country has ever seen. The CNN edition told in more detail. At least 288 people have died...
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...
Fears of an outbreak of "tomato" flu are intensifying as more children are exposed to the infection. More about the situation told the publication The Sun. This prompted India's health officials to issue a warning about the disease, as well as recommendations for its prevention. Doctors say that...
After 22 years of litigation with the North Eastern Railway (a division of Indian Railways), Tungnat Chaturvedi, an Indian lawyer, has finally received a refund for tickets he bought in 1999, overpaying $0,25 for them, Insider reports. “I have attended over 100 hearings…