Two forest rangers narrowly escaped with their lives after they were chased by a wild tiger in a forest in India. The close call was caught on video. The clip, which has since gone viral on Facebook, was shared by the Forests and Wildlife Protection Society. The department captions the video, “A Tiger is seen […]
A court on June 10 sentenced three Hindu men, including a police officer, to life imprisonment for kidnapping, raping and murdering an 8-year-old Muslim girl in Indian-controlled Kashmir, in a case that has exacerbated tensions in the disputed region.
For centuries, humans have been searching for the Yeti—and now, in an unceremonious tweet, the Indian Army is claiming to have found evidence of the mythical Himalayan monster. On April 29, the official, verified Twitter account of the Indian Army’s Additional Directorate General of Public Information tweeted a picture of what it claimed were Yeti […]
NEW DELHI—Johnson & Johnson’s baby shampoo samples failed quality tests conducted by the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan, according to a public notice from the state’s drugs watchdog, findings that were rejected by the U.S. drugmaker. This comes just a few months after Indian authorities launched an investigation into J&J’s Baby Powder to see if […]
NEW DELHI—Someday, the family says, the 7-year-old will save them. “I’ll fight,” the boy’s mother said when her husband insisted their son start working. She vowed he would stay in school, no matter what. More than 20 years ago, Ruby Khan and her husband, Nisar, came to New Delhi, hoping to find work and some […]
A camel belonging to a police station in a desert region of India stopped eating and drinking after his caretaker died due to a heart attack. The police officer, Shivraj Gadhvi, 56 died while on patrol. He had been a long-time worker at the Jakhau police station in the Kutch region of Gujarat, a state in the […]
MUMBAI—India slashed the sales tax rate on over 50 products on Saturday in a move aimed at appealing to traders and the middle classes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government eyes next year’s elections. Modi is seeking a second term in 2019 amid voter frustration over the abrupt implementation of a nationwide goods and services […]
After a lifetime in captivity, Laxmi, a 30-year-old elephant, has died in agony after been beaten and tortured by her cruel owners. Laxmi’s owners can be seen attacking her with sharp spears, bull-hooks, and sticks. The attacks occurred in a small and dank room—her prison—where she was forced to ambulate while in a deteriorating state. Her […]
SRINAGAR/MUZZAFARABAD—Five members of an Indian family were killed and two injured by shelling from Pakistani troops on Sunday along the Line of Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan, according to army and police officials. Both sides were engaging in heavy shelling despite a 15-year-old ceasefire between the nuclear-armed rivals in the area, […]
A man has been arrested after he allegedly raped a 3-year-old girl inside a parked luxury bus in Kolkata, India, after luring her onto the bus with chocolate on Tuesday, March 6, police have said. Bus cleaner Sheikh Munna, 45, has been accused of sexually assaulting the toddler who was playing ball with her 5-year-old brother around Canal West […]
An Indian woman claims her husband stole her kidney because her family failed to meet their demand for dowry. According to local media, Rita Sarkar, 28, says her husband orchestrated the organ theft two years ago when she underwent surgery for appendicitis. However, Sarkar did not realize her kidney was removed until a few months […]
MUMBAI–At least 12 people died and three were critically injured in a late night fire at a multi-story building in India’s financial capital Mumbai, local authorities said on Friday. The majority of those killed were women attending a birthday party at a rooftop restaurant, police said. The 28-year-old woman celebrating her birthday was among those […]
Eight donkeys have been detained by police after they ate and destroyed some rather expensive plants. Police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh detained the donkeys on Nov. 24 for destroying plants worth 500,000 Indian Rupee (~$7,750) outside of Urai district jail. “These donkeys had destroyed some very expensive plants which our senior officer […]
BHUBANESWAR, India—At least one person was killed and several others injured when an under-construction flyover bridge collapsed on Sunday in eastern India, officials said. A portion of the bridge collapsed in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha state where over a dozen workers were working. “We have suspended two engineers who were supervising the work,” engineer-in-chief […]
SRINAGAR, India—Terrorists killed three Indian policemen in the Kashmir valley after storming into a police camp on Saturday in their biggest strike on a government compound in the disputed region in nearly a year. One of the terrorists, who entered the camp in Pulwama town of southern Kashmir, was also killed in the ensuing gunfight, […]
PANCHKULA, India—Indian authorities have arrested hundreds of people and canceled more than 300 trains passing through two northern states after at least 29 people were killed in violent protests following the conviction of a self-styled ‘godman’. Security forces were on “standby” outside the spiritual leader’s headquarters where some 10,000 followers remained holed up, the Director […]
Linkin Park fans all over the world are coordinating a massive worldwide memorial to Chester Bennington and the band is all for it. Bennington was the star frontman and soul of the band. He commited suicide earlier this month, shocking millions of fans who admired his music. Bennington’s family announced that they will conduct a […]
SRINAGAR, India—At least 16 Hindu pilgrims were killed and 27 injured on Sunday after a bus they were traveling in skidded off a mountain road and fell into a gorge in Indian Kashmir, a senior police official said. The bus was heading towards Srinagar, the state capital, when it veered off the mountainous road in […]
India’s renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik on Friday (February 10) broke a Guinness World Record by building the world’s tallest sandcastle on the beach of eastern Puri city. Sudarsan and his 45 students took about nine days to make the 48-foot-high sculpture under the theme of “World Peace.” The previous record was held American artist […]
