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15 dead in India after stampede at Hindu mega-festival
AFP, Published on 29/01/2025
» PRAYAGRAJ, India - A stampede at the world's largest religious gathering in India killed at least 15 people with many more injured, a doctor at the Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj told AFP Wednesday.
Celebrations as Nepal registers first LGBTQ marriage
AFP, Published on 30/11/2023
» KATHMANDU - An LGBTQ couple has acquired a marriage certificate in Nepal, officials said Thursday, a first in South Asia and hailed by the pair as a win "for all".
Warner says 'awesome' as Delhi register first IPL season win
AFP, Published on 21/04/2023
» NEW DELHI - Skipper David Warner hit a fluent 57 as Delhi Capitals edged Kolkata Knight Riders by four wickets in a low-scoring Indian Premier League match on Thursday for their first victory this season.
Floods, landslides kill 116 in India and Nepal
AFP, Published on 20/10/2021
» DEHRADUN, India: More than 100 people have died in several days of massive flooding and devastating landslides that swept away roads and houses in India and Nepal, officials said Wednesday, with scores more missing.
Battling Covid, and government denial, in rural India
AFP, Published on 08/05/2021
» MORADABAD (INDIA) - People in India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh are fighting not just a raging pandemic but also a prickly Hindu nationalist local government that many say is in denial.
Time running out for Indian workers trapped since glacier disaster
AFP, Published on 10/02/2021
» TAPOVAN, India: Time was running out to save dozens of people trapped inside a tunnel three days after a devastating flash flood likely caused by a glacier burst in India's Himalayan north, officials said Wednesday.
India becomes third hardest-hit country for virus cases
AFP, Published on 06/07/2020
» NEW DELHI - India's densely populated cities ordered new restrictions as the confirmed number of coronavirus cases neared 700,000, passing Russia with the third-highest number of infections.
Climbers who died on Indian peak took path without permission
AFP, Published on 04/06/2019
» PITHORAGARH (INDIA) - Eight climbers feared to have died on a Himalayan mountain took an untested route without permission and retrieving their bodies will be a high-risk operation, Indian officials said Tuesday.
Nepal refutes Indian Army's yeti claim
AFP, Published on 03/05/2019
» KATHMANDU: Nepal's army on Friday refuted the Indian military's hairy claim that its soldiers had discovered yeti footprints in the Himalayas, saying it was more likely just a bear.
Millions in India gather for world's largest religious event
AFP, Published on 15/01/2019
» ALLAHABAD (INDIA) - The largest religious gathering anywhere on earth gets under way Tuesday, with tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims congregating in India to bathe in sacred rivers for the Kumbh Mela.