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At Least 141 Die in India after Bridge Collapses After Bad Refurbishment
Following the collapse of a recently reconstructed bridge in the Indian state of Gujarat, at least 141 deaths have been officially recorded, according to NDTV. While emergency services continue to look for missing people, rescuers have managed to save a total of 177 people.
A CCTV video of the precise time of the collapse has now been made available online, and it appears to indicate that several...
175+ killed, nearly a MILLION left homeless by landslides & floods in India
Floods and landslides across southern and western Indian states have killed nearly 200 people over the past week as the Indian Army intensifies its relief operations to help thousands stranded in desperate need of rescue.
Extreme weather conditions that have been battering the Indian states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Gujarat since last week forced hundreds of thousands of people to seek...
“See No Evil” Monkey Statues are Racist, Rules Washington DC US District Court
The use of four “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, do no evil” monkey statues in a goodbye video made by staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington DC is evidence of “creating a racially hostile work environment,” an Indian-born judge serving on the US District Court in America’s capital has ruled.
Judge Amit Priyavadan Mehta, born in Patan, Gujarat, India, ruled...
Heavy rains kill 45 in India's Gujarat
At least 45 people have lost their lives in India’s western Gujarat state due to flooding caused by heavy rains over the past 24 hours, officials say.
An unnamed official at the state Disaster Management Authority said on Thursday that the southern Saurashtra region was worst hit by the flooding, with most of the deaths reported from the Amreli district.
The official said that the two districts...