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Remote Indian region is on the brink of civil war

  By AP and published by Yahoo!News Kangval, India – Zuan Vaiphei is armed and prepared to kill. He is also ready to die. Vaiphei spends most of his days behind the sandbag walls of a makeshift bunker, his fingers resting on the trigger of a 12-gauge shotgun. Some 1,000 yards ahead of him, between […]

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Business

India’s E-bike Yulu eyes expansion as it closes in on profitability

  By Reuters and published by CNA Bengaluru – E-bike rental startup Yulu, which is looking to go public, expects to turn operationally profitable by September and plans to expand its presence in India and abroad with Thailand and Indonesia being among the countries that look interesting, its chief executive said. The startup, which currently […]

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World News

At least 120 dead, 850 injured in massive train crash in Odisha, India

  By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News Bhubaneswar, India – At least 120 people were killed and 850 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha on Friday (June 2), according to government officials in the eastern Indian state, in one of India’s worst rail accidents in years. Over 120 bodies had been recovered so […]

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Local News

Nicobar Islands shaken by 11 underwater quakes

  THERE were 11 underwater earthquakes around India’s Nicobar Islands from yesterday afternoon till evening (Apr. 9) with magnitude ranging from 3.9-5.7 on the Richter scale and at a depth of 10 kilometres, TV Channel 7 said. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said the seventh underwater quake, of 5.6-magnitude, struck at 5.31 p.m. […]

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World News

US tries to woo India away from Russia with display of F-35s, bombers 

  By Reuters and published by CNA Bengaluru – The United States brought its most advanced fighter jet, the F-35, to India for the first time this week alongside F-16s, Super Hornets and B-1B bombers as Washington looks to woo New Delhi away from its traditional military supplier, Russia. India, desperate to modernise its largely […]

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Life

Indian Ambassador marks independence hero’s birth anniversary

  MARKING 126th birth anniversary of Indian independence hero Subhas Chandra Bose who is venerated for taking up arms against the British was Indian Ambassador Nagesh Singh and members of Thai Bharat Cultural Lodge on Sunday Jan. 22, 2023. Also attending the celebration at the lodge was Ret. Lt. General Ajay Kumar Singh Chandele. Indian […]

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World News

Police arrest Indian exec for urinating on plane passenger

  By AFP and Reuters – published by DW New Delhi – Indian police authorities have arrested Shankar Mishra, formerly an executive with American banking giant Wells Fargo, for allegedly urinating on a passenger aboard an Air India flight in November. Indian media reported that Mishra had urinated on a passenger, an elderly woman, on […]

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Local News

Two Indian men in a punch-up on Thai Smile flight

  CIRCULATING on social media is a video clip of two Indian men having a punch-up on a Thai Smile flight from Bangkok to India on Dec. 27 with the air hostess successfully separating the two angry fliers, Thai Rath newspaper said. As the video clip spread rapidly online other passengers on this flight said […]

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Health

India makes negative Covid test mandatory for travellers from 5 countries

By Reuters and published by CNA New Delhi – India will make a negative Covid-19 test mandatory for flyers from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand from Jan. 1, the Health Minister said today (Dec. 29). Travellers from these countries and territories would have to upload their test reports on an India […]

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‘The Serpent’ serial killer Charles Sobhraj back in France 

  By Reuters and published by CNA Paris – Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police believe killed more than 20 western backpackers on the “hippie trail” through Asia in the 1970s and 1980s, returned to France on Saturday (Dec. 24) after nearly two decades behind bars in Nepal. Nepal’s Supreme Court ordered the release […]

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