open view web desk NEW DELHI — Roads were empty, businesses were closed and schools shut down Monday in parts of India, as opposition politicians looking toward elections called for a nationwide strike over rising fuel prices. While the strike caused barely a ripple in many cities, protesters […]
open view web desk NEW DELHI — India’s government has ordered a probe into the deaths of five men asphyxiated by toxic fumes while cleaning a septic tank at a housing complex in New Delhi, an official said Monday. Minister of Labor Gopal Rai has asked for the […]
open view web desk Fifty people died when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims plunged into a valley in southern India on Tuesday, one of the deadliest accidents on the country’s notorious roads in recent years. Road crashes in India claim the lives of more than 150,000 people each […]
open view web desk As Indians’ anger grows over record fuel prices, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is getting advice on social media to seek lessons in mathematics and graphic design after it posted a bar-chart graphic that showed fuel prices lower than in prior years. Prime Minister Narendra […]
open view web desk Hundreds of troops led a desperate operation to rescue families trapped by mounting floods in India’s Kerala state Thursday as the death toll reached 106 with nearly 150,000 left homeless. Helicopters airlifted stranded victims from rooftops and dam gates were thrown open as incessant […]
open view web desk New Delhi, Aug 13: Some unidentified men targeted Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Umar Khalid and gunshots were heard at the Constitution Club near Parliament in New Delhi on Monday, but he escaped unhurt, police said Witnesses claimed that two shots were fired when Khalid […]
open view web desk PATNA, India— Police in eastern India have arrested a school principal, two teachers and three students after a teenage girl blamed them and another 13 schoolmates for repeatedly raping her for the last seven months, police said Saturday. Police arrested the six […]
open view web desk Jaipur, July 2: Rajasthan Congress Chief Sachin Pilot today alleged that the BJP government has institutionalised corruption as a “transfer racket” was operating in the state. “Government employees and officers who do not have resources and approach are being exploited by the government. They are […]
open view web desk NEW DELHI – India faces the worst long-term water crisis in its history as demand outstrips supply and millions of lives and livelihoods could be at risk, said a think tank chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. By 2030, water demand is projected to […]
open view web desk New Delhi, Jun 5 :Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was today summoned by a city court on July 7 as an accused in the Sunanda Pushkar death case after it took cognisance of the police charge sheet in which he was charged with abetting the […]
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