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Parveen Kumar

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Firecrackers and reluctant authorities: Delhi’s smog set to worsen

NEW DELHI – With a toxic smog beginning to envelop New Delhi as winter approaches, residents of the Indian capital are set to make matters a lot worse by burning hundreds of thousands of firecrackers to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali early next month. India, which has […]

China’s GDP growth slows to 6.5 percent in third quarter

Workers unload bags with clothes from a truck in front of a wholesale clothing market in Shanghai China’s economy grew at its slowest pace in nine years in the third quarter, as a campaign to tackle mounting debt and trade frictions with the US had an effect. The […]

Hindu groups again block women from entering Sabarimala temple

KOCHI/NEW DELHI- Hundreds of hardline Hindu protesters blocked two women from entering the Sabarimala temple on Friday in a third day of heated protests against the lifting of a ban on women of menstrual age. Three dozen priests staged a sit-in against the Supreme Court decision which overturned […]

Killing me softly

Palu, Indonesia — Every time I cover a disaster like this, a little piece of me is lost. The soft part of you, the part that feels, that cares, the human part I guess. It kills that part of you a bit. I can feel that it’s not as […]

New moon: China to launch lunar lighting in outer space

That’s no moon… China is planning to replace streetlamps with light from an ‘artificial’ moon China is planning to launch its own ‘artificial moon’ by 2020 to replace streetlamps and lower electricity costs in urban areas, state media reported Friday. Chengdu, a city in southwestern Sichuan province, is […]

Zika cases rise to 106 in Rajasthan

New Delhi :The number of people infected with Zika virus rose to 106 in Rajasthan on Thursday. Of the total affected people, 25 are pregnant women, said a Union Health Ministry official. The six new Zika cases confirmed on Thursday were from Jaipur and two neighbouring districts, he […]

Woman gives birth after undergoing uterus transplant

Pune, Oct 18 : A 28-year-old woman who had undergone a uterus transplant gave birth to a baby girl at a private hospital here Thursday. A doctor who treated her claimed that it was the first such case in the country. Meenakshi Walan, resident of Vadodara, underwent the transplant […]

Seventy shepherds rescued from Himachal’s Bara Bhangal

Shimla, Oct 18 : Seventy shepherds have been rescued from Bara Bhangal area of Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district after being stranded for nearly a month, a senior official said on Thursday. Nineteen groups of 70 shepherds along with over 10,000 sheep and 250 horses have been rescued, Baijnath sub-divisional […]

Noida Police busts fake call centre Noida Police

Noida (UP), Oct 18 : The Noida Police Thursday said it had busted a fake call centre operating from the city and arrested the mastermind for allegedly duping Canadians and other foreign nationals. Working on an input from the Canadian police, the fake call centre operating out of Sector […]

Woman’s decomposed body found in jungles in outer Delhi

New Delhi, Oct 18 : The decomposed body of a woman was found in jungles in outer Delhi’s Mundka area, police said on Thursday. The body was found on October 14, they said. The lower portion of the body is highly decomposed and it is suspected it was dumped […]

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