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Photos: Elephant rampages in east Indian town, smashing homes
KOLKATA, India (AP) — A wild elephant rampaged through an east Indian town on Wednesday, smashing cars and homes and sending panicked people running before the animal was tranquilized to be returned to...
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Militants abducted Indian priest from Yemen retirement home
KOLKATA, India (AP) — A charity group established by Mother Teresa said Monday an Indian Catholic priest was abducted by militants when they attacked a retirement home in southern Yemen last week,...
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Suspect in UCLA shooting remembered as good student in India
KOLKATA, India (AP) — Residents of an east Indian industrial town were shocked Friday to recognize the face of a man they remember as a diligent student as the person who allegedly shot a UCLA...
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Kolkata remembers Mother Teresa on the eve of sainthood
KOLKATA, India (AP) — As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in the eastern Indian city where she lived and worked for...
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Strike strands tens of thousands of tourists in northern India
Separatists' widespread strike strands tens of thousands of tourists, including U.S. visitors, around Darjeeling in northern India
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Strike threatens India’s tea industry
India's tea industry is losing $475,000 a day due to a strike by ethnic Gurkhas that has disrupted transport links and blocked roads in...
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Maoist rebels kill 24 police in eastern India
The Maoist guerrillas struck with lightning speed, racing inside the security camp in cars and on motorcycles, spraying the overwhelmed police forces with rifle fire and sending a clear message to the...
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Aid arrives after cyclone kills 119 in India
Aid workers distributed rice, dried fruits, water and tarpaulins Thursday to the victims of a ferocious cyclone that killed at least 119 people in northeastern India and demolished ten of thousands of...
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Aid arrives after cyclone kills 121 in India
Aid workers distributed rice, dried fruit, water and tarpaulins Thursday to victims of a ferocious cyclone that killed at least 121 people in northeastern India and demolished ten of thousands of mud...
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61 people killed in trains crash in east India
A speeding express train plowed into a stationary passenger train in eastern India on Monday, killing 61 people in a crash so powerful it sent the roof of one car flying onto an overpass. Officials...
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Driver error may have caused Indian train crash
A train that slammed into another in an eastern Indian station was traveling three times faster than it should have been and ignored signals to stop, railway officials said Tuesday, suggesting that...
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Indians remember Mother Teresa on birth centennial
Hundreds of nuns, bishops and volunteers attended a Mass on Thursday marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa, the selfless nun who dedicated her life to serving the sick and poor in...
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Youngest on Hillary’s Everest team dies in India
Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu, the youngest on Sir Edmund Hillary's climbing team that first scaled Mount Everest in 1953, died on Sunday at his Indian home at the foot of the Himalayas. He was 79.
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Staff at Indian hospital flees as fire kills 73
A basement fire sent flames and smoke coursing through a seven-story Indian hospital Friday, killing 73 people, and officials accused hospital staff of abandoning many patients to die of suffocation.
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Lax safety cited in deadly hospital fire in India
A private hospital in eastern India where dozens of people died in a massive fire failed to update its safety procedures despite being ordered to do so months ago, officials said Saturday
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Lax safety cited in deadly hospital fire in India
A private Indian hospital where 90 people died in a massive fire had failed to update its safety procedures despite being ordered to do so months ago, officials said Saturday.
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Train mows down, kills 7 elephants in east India
A passenger train plowed into a herd of elephants in eastern India, killing seven, including two calves, as they lumbered across the tracks in a forest, authorities said Thursday.
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Indian actress Suchitra Sen dies
KOLKATA, India — Suchitra Sen, legendary Indian actress known for her memorable roles in both Bengali language and Bollywood films, died Friday after a cardiac arrest, her daughter said. She was 82....
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Police: Officer fatally shot by Gorkha protesters in India
KOLKATA, India (AP) — One police officer was killed and another four were injured when they were fired at by members of a Gorkha organization demanding a new state be carved in the region of West...
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