A marriage function ended in a tragedy in Hyderabad after a youth dancing in the baaraat was hit fatally by his own sword. A marriage function ended in a tragedy after a youth dancing […]
A major fire broke out in the office of BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur; causes behind fire are unknown. A major fire broke out in the administrative buiding of Baba Raghav Das Medical College […]
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has decided to ask the Centre to declare the Ockhi cyclone as a ‘national calamity’. Vijayan took to his Twitter handle on Saturday to inform about the same and […]
For four months, Achini Dinesha’s life has revolved around water – or, more precisely, the lack of it. Bathing in privacy and safety is now a matter of careful planning and lucky timing for […]
After years of foot-dragging India will begin work in around a month on an $87 billion scheme to connect some of the country’s biggest rivers, government sources say, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi bets […]
Floods have killed at least 23 people in Thailand’s northeastern farming region, the interior ministry said on Thursday (03/08), causing damage estimated at $300 million. The Southeast Asian nation is the world’s second-biggest exporter […]
A strong typhoon swept across Taiwan on Sunday (30/07), injuring more than 80 people, forcing the capital to shut down essential services and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes. Forty people […]
Widespread flooding in India’s western industrial state of Gujarat has killed more than 120 people and paralyzed infrastructure, officials said on Friday (28/07), with tens of thousands of cotton farmers also suffering heavy damage. […]
During Sri Lanka’s May floods, rescue crews in Kiriella, a small town in Rathnapura District, spotted a remarkable sight. A middle-aged woman, trudging through waist-deep floodwater, clutched a rooster carefully above the torrent, while […]
Floods in northeast India that have killed at least 40 people and displaced nearly 1.5 million have also inundated a national park that is home to the world’s largest concentration of one-horned rhinoceros. The […]
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