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...
View ArticleDriver 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...
View ArticleIndians 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...
View ArticleYoungest 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.
View ArticleStaff 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.
View ArticleLax 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
View ArticleLax 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.
View ArticleTrain 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.
View ArticleIndian 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....
View ArticlePhotos: 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...
View ArticleMilitants 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,...
View ArticleDriver 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...
View ArticleIndians 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...
View ArticleYoungest 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.
View ArticleStaff 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.
View ArticleLax 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
View ArticleLax 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.
View ArticleTrain 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.
View ArticleIndian 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....
View ArticleSuspect 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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