India
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Even the dead affected in flood-hit Varanasi
By Sidhartha Dutta Varanasi– The Ganga was in spate and the neighbourhoods on its banks in this soulful but chaotic…
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Opinion: Kolkata will take a century to recover from Mother Teresa
By Aroup Chatterjee If Mother Teresa, to be canonised at the Vatican on September 4, is to be named a…
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Eco-friendly toilets launched in Mumbai
Mumbai– Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday inaugurated the first of the eco-friendly, state-of-the-art and hygienic toilet facilities set up…
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India short of 500,000 doctors, bodies on shoulders reminders of health crisis
New Delhi– In Odisha, a man slung his wife’s body over his shoulder and carried it 10 km after being…
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2,057 foreigners arrested in India in 2015, 168 in Delhi
New Delhi–A total of 2,057 foreigners were arrested across India in 2015 for various criminal offences with Delhi figuring second…
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Indian GDP grows at 7.1 percent in Q1
New Delhi– India’s first quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 7.1 per cent is mainly the result of more…
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RTI prevents sale of historic Maharashtra sea fort
By Quaid Najmi Ratnagiri– The single-minded pursuit by an RTI activist led to an expose and finally prevented the sale…
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India approves permanent residency status for foreign investors
New Delhi– In an attempt to encourage foreign investments in India, the central government on Wednesday approved a scheme to…
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Revival of tank system in Telangana gives hope to farmers to avoid droughts and suicides
By Mohammed Shafeeq Adilabad–Restoration of a centuries-old minor irrigation tank system has raised hopes among farmers in Telangana, notorious for…
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Ministers, religious leaders pledge to change people mindset on sanitation
Leh–Aiming to save rivers and the water streams from pollution due to absence of sewerage system, Union Ministers Harshvardhan and…
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