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Tourist boat capsizes in southern India, at least 22 dead
A double-decker boat carrying more than 30 passengers capsized Sunday night off a beach in southern India, and more than 22 people including children died, officials said.
India’s Bengaluru flooded after days of torrential rains
Life for many in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru was disrupted on Tuesday after two days of torrential rains set off long traffic snarls, widespread power cuts and heavy floods that swept into homes and submerged roads.
Severe cyclone approaches India's financial capital Mumbai
A storm in the Arabian Sea off India's west coast intensified into a severe cyclone on June 3, gathering speed as it barreled toward India's financial capital of Mumbai.
At Least 25 Dead as Bus Falls Into Canal in Southern India
At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren, were killed when a speeding bus fell into a canal in southern India on Saturday, an official and media reports said, quoted by ABC News.
The accident occurred in Mandya district as the driver lost control of the vehicle while going at a high speed, said G. Parameshwaran, the Karnataka state deputy chief minister.
India defends shelling after 4 Pakistan troops killed
India has defended shelling across a disputed border that allegedly killed four Pakistani soldiers, saying on July 17 it had the right to retaliate over "cease-fire violations" in the Kashmir region.
CNN presenter Reza Aslan sparks backlash after eating HUMAN BRAIN while filming Hindu cannibal sect (VIDEOS+PHOTOS)
CNN presenter Reza Aslan has been heavily criticized after he ate part of a human brain while filming with a Hindu cannibal sect in India.
The episode, part of a series called Believer with Reza Aslan, was shown on Sunday and provoked horror and dismay from many viewers and an angry backlash by Hindus in America.
India banks will chase liquor baron for 'every penny': Minister
Indian banks will strive to recover "every penny" from a beleaguered liquor baron who left the country owing more than $1 billion, the finance minister said on March 17, as warnings sound over a mounting bad debt problem.
Private Indian banker named first BRICS bank head
Indian private banker K.V Kamath was named May 11 as the first head of a new development bank being set up by the so-called emerging BRICS nations, officials said.
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Train derails in northern India, killing 30
At least 30 people, including children, were killed and dozens more injured when an express train derailed in northern India on March 20, authorities said.
Television images showed two mangled carriages lying beside the track after the accident, which occurred around 30 miles (50 kilometres) from Lucknow, capital of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Train derails in northern India, killing 21
At least 30 people, including children, were killed and dozens more injured when an express train derailed in northern India on March 20, authorities said.
Television images showed two mangled carriages lying beside the track after the accident, which occurred around 30 miles (50 kilometres) from Lucknow, capital of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
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