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India opens giant Hindu festival for 400 million pilgrims
AFP, Published on 13/01/2025
» PRAYAGRAJ (INDIA) - Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India began bathing in sacred waters on Monday as the Kumbh Mela festival opened, with organisers expecting 400 million people -- the largest gathering of humanity.
After 17 days trapped in tunnel, India workers say hope kept them alive
AFP, Published on 29/11/2023
» SILKYARA TUNNEL (INDIA) - After 17 days trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel they were building, Indian workers described the horror of their ordeal, and the hopes and prayers that kept them strong.
Cambodian king appoints Hun Sen's son new PM
AFP, Published on 07/08/2023
» PHNOM PENH: Hun Manet was appointed Cambodia's new leader by the king on Monday, after having effectively been given the post by his father, who has ruled for nearly four decades.
Heir apparent hails election victory
News, AFP, Published on 25/07/2023
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's heir apparent insisted on Monday on the legitimacy of elections his party won against no meaningful opposition, defying international criticism that the polls were neither free nor fair.
'Like hell': India's burning coalfields
AFP, Published on 14/07/2023
» DHANBAD (INDIA) - Deadly fires have raged for a century in mines in India's Jharkhand state, where Savitri Mahto is one of 100,000 people risking their lives shovelling coal to supply insatiable demand.
Fear persists 10 years after Delhi gang rape and murder
AFP, Published on 14/12/2022
» NEW DELHI: Ten years ago the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a Delhi bus horrified the world and shone a spotlight on high rates of sexual violence in India.
Indian women footballers face uncertain future after FIFA ban
AFP, Published on 19/08/2022
» NEW DELHI - India's women footballers are in despair and uncertain about the future after a FIFA ban saw the country stripped of a major international tournament and left its best team in limbo.
Oscar spotlight shines on India's rural women journalists
AFP, Published on 18/03/2022
» BANDA, India: An all-women team of smartphone-toting, low-caste reporters who chronicle India's hardscrabble heartland may give the cinema-mad country its first Oscar-winning film, after their own story became a critically lauded documentary.
Stampede at Indian shrine kills 12
AFP, Published on 01/01/2022
» SRINAGAR, India: Twelve people were crushed to death in a stampede at an Indian religious shrine in the early hours of Saturday as tens of thousands of pilgrims massed to offer prayers, officials said.
In rural India, fear of testing and vaccines hampers Covid-19 fight
AFP, Published on 05/06/2021
» KALWA (INDIA) - When health worker Neelam Kumari knocks on doors in Indian villages the occupants sometimes run out the back, terrified that she wants to vaccinate them against Covid-19.