The “Save Democracy” rally was the first major public demonstration by the opposition bloc INDIA against the arrest of New Delhi’s top elected official and opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal on March 21.
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Indian government official plotted to kill Sikh separatist leader in New York City, U.S. says
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who is considered a terrorist by the Indian government, has advocated for the establishment of a sovereign state for Sikhs.
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Indian rescuers start drilling to reach 40 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel since the weekend
The stranded workers are being provided with food and medical supplies, officials said.
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Indian railways official says error in signaling system led to crash that killed 275 people
Authorities worked to clear the mangled wreckage of the two passenger trains that derailed Friday night in Balasore district in Odisha state in one of the country’s deadliest rail disasters in decades.
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Death toll in India train derailment climbs to more than 230
The train derailment is one of India’s deadliest, killing more than 230 people and leaving about 900 injured.
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At least 132 dead, many injured after India bridge collapse
Officials told local media over a hundred people were plunged into the Machchu river.
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Lakshmi Das
1924 – 2015 AUBURN — Lakshmi Das died at her home at Schooner Estates on July 23, completing a remarkable journey which took her from British-occupied India to Stetson Road in Auburn. Born on July 2, 1924 in Secunderabad, India, to Ambat and Thankam Menon, she was educated at Keyes High School for Girls (Secunderabad) […]
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22-year-old Norwegian clinches chess world title
NEW DELHI (AP) — The world of chess has a new king, and it’s a 22-year-old who is as much at home posing for fashion shoots as he is pushing pawns. Magnus Carlsen of Norway won the chess world championship Friday, becoming the first Western player since Bobby Fischer to hold the title. Carlsen, a […]
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4 men given death sentences in India gang rape
NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court Friday sentenced to death four men for the gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman, ordering them to the gallows for a brutal attack that riveted India, where it became a symbol of the widespread mistreatment of women and the government’s inability to deal with […]
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9 Afghans killed in attack on Indian consulate
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said. Authorities also reported that 22 police officers and over 70 Taliban fighters died in two days of […]